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Help your third grader enjoy activities learning critical skills by following step-by-step instructions and using easy-to-find materials. Play math card games and explore themes third graders can get excited about. These activities are great for parents and educators to teach multiplication, collaborative writing, and third grade science topics. Try third grade arts and crafts next.

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Pyramid Math Card Game

This pyramid card game is a fun way to help your child learn addition and subtraction. Best of all, itâs quick to set up and easy to play.

Sense of Smell Activity

Help your child get to know the least-appreciated of the five senses, the sense of smell, with a smelling station.

DIY Star Garlands

These DIY star garlands will add the perfect patriotic touch to your home this 4th of July!

Steal the Bacon

Are you looking for a fun pool game that doesn't require a lot of heavy accessories? Try Steal the Bacon, a creative form of tag your child is sure to love.

Play "I Caught You!" An Early Reading Game

Work on reading fluency with your child. This fun game will even engage her concentration skills without her knowing.

A Rapid Rounding Game

This kinesthetic game will help your child practice rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!

What's a Zipper? A Writing Game

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Make Spider Web Art!

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Tea time is a chance for a lesson in etiquette while she plays. Quality time to read a book and talk about good manners.

Test Your Tongue: Are Strawberries Sweet or Sour?

Invite your third grader to do taste test science to observe how a strawberry tastes when it is paired with various condiments. The results may be surprising!

Watercolor Fireworks

Fireworks are such an exciting part of part of summer festivities, but it's sad when the show is over. Keep them alive all year long with watercolor fireworks.

Grow Salt Crystals!

Crystals are a very special structure. In this third grade activity, your child will learn how to grow salt crystals.

Does your child know how to read a map? Teach this important skill with an activity that makes map reading and map creating practical and fun!

Dollar Games: Race to $1.00

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

Make Gak: Experiment with Polymers

In this 3rd grade science activity, you'll experiment with the little-known fourth state of matter: polymers! Mix borax with white glue and watch what happens.

Make Your Own Passport

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Alfalfa Friends

Grow these wheatgrass and alfalfa friends and watch their hair spring up in just a couple days!

Draw a Birthday Bar Graph

Liven up a lesson about graphing by helping your third grader compile a bar graph from his classmates' birthday data.

Addition Treasure Hunt

Here's a brain-challenging treasure hunt for your third grader, calling upon math skills with money and with decimals!

Shooting Hoops Multiplication

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master his multiplication tables.

Make a Keyhole Spy Glass

Combine the science of physics with the fun of playing spy. Your young detective can make his own tiny looking glass. It's simple to make!

Make a Friendship Bracelet

Make a friendship bracelet with your child this Mother's Day or the next time she is looking for a fun project to do!

Make a Paper Mosaic!

Introduce your young artist to this art form with this fun and creative activity, which blends arts and crafts with patterning for hidden math practice!

Create a Mexican Inspired Yarn Picture

Celebrate Mexican heritage and inspire creativity in your budding artist with this unique arts and crafts activity.

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