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This fun marbled paper craft uses things you're likely to have around your house, and it teaches kids some simple chemistry too!

This bat craft is a fun project for crafty witches and warlocks. Make a spooky bat craft to hang around your house on Halloween night.

Horse chestnuts are inedible, but British children found a fun use for them around the 1840s by turning them into a game called Conkers.

Your child will create their very own filigree drawing; twirling, or coiling small strips of lightweight paper around toothpicks and gently gluing them down.

Celebrate Earth Day by making colorful animal sculptures using recycled materials from around the house in this 3rd grade arts and crafts activity.

Kokeshi dolls have been around since the 17th century, and now your child can recreate a piece of Japanese history and culture right at home.

Be careful what you wish for... Centered around The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs, this writing activity encourages your child to consider consequences.

Take paper football to the next level by creating a "field" with objects from around the house. A great indoor and rainy-day activity.

In this activity, learners will discover how to make a basic water filtration system using common materials found around the house or outside.

Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

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.

Science fair project that examines how to grow bacteria in a controlled setting, using simple materials from around the home.

Make your own wrapping paper with some materials from around the house. Try to make your own wrapping paper this year for a unique presentation for your gifts.

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

This zombie shirt is a fun and incredibly simple Halloween costume. Have your kid don the shirt lurch around the neighborhood searching for brains...or candy!

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Using simple materials found around your home, you can reinforce the static electricity concept by helping your child build a simple device with zapping power!

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.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will write loving kindness notes to place around the home to serve as a reminder (for themselves and others) to see the goodness within themselves.

Invite your child and a few friends to get crabby in this game of soccer with a twist: Instead of running, players "crab crawl" around the playing field.

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.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.