3rd and 4th Grade Activities : Page 31

Decorate with a banner made from paper, clover shapes and buttons to celebrate spring or St. Patrick's Day!

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

Petanque, a traditional French lawn game, is a wonderful activity to entertain groups of kids and help them learn a little bit about other cultures.

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Introduce your child to the concepts of positive and negative space in design with this simple yet striking Valentine's Day art project.

In this popcorn experiment, students can explore how two things made out of the same material can have very different appearances and densities.

This Santa Claus craft is made to look like the jolly holiday icon himself. Make a Santa Claus craft with your child this holiday season.

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the basic principles of air pressure using simple materials like a balloon, straw and string.

Show your kids the power of baking powder by conducting a simple experiment. Make four batches of cornbread, all identical except for one thing: baking powder!

In this activity, kids learn a little about Japanese culture by making their own windsock in the shape of a koi fish.

This family project is a fun way to teach your child about her heritage and practice her geography.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Get this cool science fair idea to explore how arctic tundra animals change their behavior and adapt to survive in long, cold winters.

This zombie cake will give your Halloween enthusiast an excuse to lurch and limp around the kitchen. Share this zombie cake with friends and the undead.

Sneak some vitamin-packed greens into your homemade popsicles for a frozen summer treat thatâs both delicious and nutritious

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

Take some inspiration from the past and create some wood block prints with your fourth grader.

This science fair project idea investigates how the height at which a pendulum is released affects the length of time it continues.

Play food isn't just for preschoolers! Help your child create a fun Passover craft that doubles as tea-party play food for younger siblings.

Is it amplitude? Weight? Length of string? Kids will discover what factors changing the period of a pendulum depends on in this fun and easy physics experiment.

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

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

This game is a great way to help your child remember the names of shapes. Give it a go and before you know it, your kid will have all her shapes down pat.

In this activity, students will think about the form and function of household objects as they compare and contrast kitchen serving spoons of various sizes and designs.

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

Cleaning can be a chore, but not with this sudsy experiment!

This science project explores the concept of being opaque or clear. Can you make something clear opaque? Or something opaque clear?

This fun activity will have your child creating a Halloween-themed bookmark to use throughout the Halloween season. All they have to do is follow the directions on the legend!

Is your third grader bombing around on a bike these days? Here's a way to put all that fun time together with some math learning, too.

Bend, twist, squish and press a paper bag into a tree! Once it's finished, your child's Halloween tree will look like it came right out of a scary fairy tale.