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Third Grade Painting & Drawing Activities

Nurture artistic talent and teach kids how to express themselves through art with this collection of painting and drawing activities. Using paintbrushes, pens, pencils, and every tool in between, your students will love starting with the basic framework of each craft and making it their own, exploring their personal artistic independence in the process.

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Painting & Drawing

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Sticky Note Project

Sticky Note Project

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Easter Egg Designs

Easter Egg Designs

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

3rd grade

Science

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Silhouette Portraits

Silhouette Portraits

Here's a fun family activity: have your preschooler make a cameo appearance by creating and drawing on their own silhouettes!

3rd grade

Social studies

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Make Spider Web Art!

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.

3rd grade

Science

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Homemade Sidewalk Chalk

Homemade Sidewalk Chalk

What could be more fun than doing sidewalk art? How about making your own colored sidewalk chalk!

3rd grade

Social studies

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Scratch Art for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Scratch Art for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

On Martin Luther King Day, help your third grader create an original "scratch art" card to thank a person who has made a difference in his life.

3rd grade

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Watering Can Craft

Watering Can Craft

This year on Mother's Day, try this gift project that brings together an appreciation for gardening with a hands-on lesson in art history.

3rd grade

Science

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When I Grow Up I Want To Be...

When I Grow Up I Want To Be...

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Reverse Glass Painting

Reverse Glass Painting

Encourage your third-grader to create a reverse glass painting. This will help him learn art concepts and improve his critical thinking skills.

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Nature Poetry

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

3rd grade

Reading & writing

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Create a Venn Diagram Creature!

Create a Venn Diagram Creature!

Help your third grader create a Venn diagram fantasy creature by combining two different creatures to create a fantasy creature based on their similarities.

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Create Crazy Three-Part Creatures

Create Crazy Three-Part Creatures

Banish your third grader's rainy day boredom by guiding his play group through a collaborative art project that leads up to the unveiling of a crazy creature!

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Painted Wooden Eggs

Painted Wooden Eggs

Spice up your Easter routine this year by making these stunningly sparkly eggs with your third grader. This is a great activity to do to celebrate the holiday.

3rd grade

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Make a Jackie Robinson Baseball Card

Make a Jackie Robinson Baseball Card

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having her create her own baseball card!

3rd grade

Social studies

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Watercolor Fireworks

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.

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Create a Story Quilt

Create a Story Quilt

Here's a fun art activity that combines measurement and design with drawing and painting. Kids tell their own special story as they create a story quilt.

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Haunted House Blueprint

Haunted House Blueprint

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

3rd grade

Math

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Fauvist Painting

Fauvist Painting

Your child can be a Fauvist painter using bright colors and his imagination to create wild artwork!

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Color Theory Made Easy

Color Theory Made Easy

This project makes learning the difference between warm and cool colors easy and fun. And it's a great intro to complimentary colors - great for pop art!

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Reflection Painting

Reflection Painting

In this painting and drawing project, not only will stars shine in the evening sky over the skyscrapers, they will also create a waterfront reflection.

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Printmaking Art

Printmaking Art

With this fun and easy method of printing your child will draw patterns, trace them with yarn, paint and press her very own masterpieces.

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Baby Footprints

Baby Footprints

Your child will create adorable baby footprints using his hand and fingers!

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Star Collage

Your child can hone her cutting skills while making this patriotically festive star collage!

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Painting Clay Flower Pots

Painting Clay Flower Pots

Create a face of a person or animal on a small terra cotta flower pot and grow herbs or a flowered plant for their hair! As the herbs grow, the hair grows.

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Christmas Reindeer Decoration

Christmas Reindeer Decoration

Liven up your Christmas decor with vibrant reindeer created from cardboard. This decoration can hang above a fireplace, over a door, or across a wall.

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