3rd Grade Activities : Page 8

Teach children how to upcycle dried-out markers with this homemade paint-making activity!

Make some easy homemade yogurt with your young scientist, and see what a few 'live' bacteria can do in the right conditions!

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

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

Practice conversions within the metric system in this fun math card game for third graders.

This science fair project idea explores substances that cause a bubble to last longer.

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!

Here's a fun activity that will allow your child to express himself by making a flag of his own design, then writing an accompanying story.

In this physics project, learn about the relationship between light intensity and distance using a laser pointer, flashlight, and graph paper!

Build a 3d animal cell model with this cool science fair project, which helps kids visualize and understand the function of a cell's parts and organelles.

This science experiment tests whether warm or cold water works best in making cut flowers last longer.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

Try the classic balloon-on-the-wall trick with your kid and watch static electricity in action.

This fun math card game is a great opportunity to discuss probability with your third grader.

Science fair project that determines whether cooling eggs helps them be peeled more easily. Compare the time it took to peel each egg.

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

Children will discuss what it means to have healthy friendships and create a unique friendship painting that illustrates the qualities of good friends.

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with this sweet mint-flavored milkshake you and your child can make together.

Make a backbone model to explore human anatomy and life science.

Turn a real-life hero into a folklore hero. Your child can write a tall tale that makes a Davy Crockett or John Henry out of someone they personally know.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Do different types of oil mix or stack? Find out in this science fair project idea!

Play a math logic and critical thinking game using a deck of cards. Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in this fun activity.

Help your child create her own version of a Moroccan lantern to give her room an Arabian nights feel!

This activity teaches your third grader how to make a paper cut-out still life, in true Matisse-style.

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

Help your child build emotional awareness by creating a wheel full of pictures that make them feel a certain emotion.

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.