2nd and 3rd Grade Fall Activities

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

This unique project will help your child learn the basics of assemblage and he'll create a perfectly festive pumpkin in the process.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Decorating pumpkins is a safer, cleaner alternative to carving. These Cubist art pumpkins are easy and fun to make, and serve as great fall decor.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

Reinforce your child's measurement and problem solving skills this holiday season! This decadent bread pudding, dressed up with pumpkin and warm spices, is a holiday show-stopper.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

This activity provides a solution to all those leaves on your doorstep, while also giving your child a fun science lesson.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

This will encourage your child to utilize their observation skills, develop aesthetic awareness, build artistic drawing abilities and learn about the seasons.

This apple cider recipe makes a perfect drink for a cold winter day. Make our apple cider recipe with your child this holiday season.

Your kid will have the coolest lunch around when he creates this owl's head lunch bag topper. Celebrate the arrival of fall with this rustic-inspired craft.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Decorate your porch or backyard with this unique fall craft!

Make a clay sculpture of a fall tree to celebrate the changing seasons and bring out the artist in your third grader.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

A package of memory wire and some beads are all that your artist needs to make a bracelet. The challenge will be to come up with a design inspired by autumn.

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

This pumpkin dessert recipe tastes like pie but looks like a no-bake cookie.

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!