3rd Grade Holidays Activities

Invite your child to craft dream cloud magnets to display their hopes and visions for the future!

Celebrate Kwanzaa with your fourth grader, or introduce them to a new cultural practice, by showing them how to weave a Kwanzaa mat out of an ordinary paper bag!

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

These Halloween sandwiches are a creepy-crawly treat for a holiday party or an especially scary school lunch. Make these Halloween sandwiches for your child.

In this fun science project your child will get practice following directions and getting messy as they learn all about slime!

Learn how to make a trick-or-treat bag for Halloween. See how to make a decorative trick-or-treat bag with this Halloween craft tutorial.

Young scientists develop a hypothesis, conduct an experiment, and then revise their hypothesis to find out which common household liquids dissolve candy corn.

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.

Your child will create her own falling snowflakes using white paper and glue them over a tree, so it appears as if they are falling from the sky.

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.

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Reinforce your child’s foundational math skills while creating small works of seasonal art with this creative Halloween rock painting activity!

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

Make a sweet, budget-friendly treat for your loved ones with these trick-or-treat lollipops.

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

What’s the best part of fall? Pumpkins! Use this easy recipe to help your child make some delicious smelling pumpkin play dough. They can use their math skills to measure and mix and then have hours of fun playing!

Bring out your child’s creative side with this fun Halloween-themed craft.

Learn how to make a haunted house with this Halloween craft. See how to make a haunted house with a project that is fun for ghosts and ghouls alike.

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.

This snowflake garland will bring some winter wonder to your house. Make a sparkling snowflake garland with your child this winter.

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.

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.

Encourage a spirit of giving and sharing with this meaningful tzedakah box craft project. 

Put your young paleontologist's puzzle-solving skills to the test by having her hunt for dinosaur bones and then assemble them to create dinosaur skeletons.

This easy strawberry banana smoothie is a healthy treat for kids. Make an easy strawberry banana smoothie for your child for a heart-healthy Valentine's Day.

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