2nd and 3rd Grade Holidays Activities

Have your child create a little leprechaun to celebrate the season and create a little mischief.

Design a colorful leprechaun trap—and make some memories—with this fun St. Patrick's Day craft project!

This shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

This hands-on activity will introduce your third grader to the concepts of positive and negative space as she makes a shamrock!

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

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

Use these pretty egg carton flowers to decorate a spring table. They don't require water, they'll never wilt, and they're perfect for Easter.

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your third grader's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws

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

Brighten up everyone's day with this circular rainbow plate perfect for celebrating spring or St. Patrick's Day.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

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

Layer images and handprint owls to create a Halloween painting!

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

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

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.

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

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

Perform a special St. Patrick's Day magic trick with this fun craft project! 

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

It's always good to have a little help during the holiday. Show your child how to set a table setting and then help him create a placemat map.

Can your third grader catch a leprechaun using a homemade trap? Help her entice these folkloric Irish fairies with gold coins that they simply can't resist.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

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.

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

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day by painting the green Irish countryside in this 2nd grade arts and crafts activity.

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!

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.

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.