Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

When it comes to helping your third grader manage a school backpack, small steps now bring big payoffs later.

Coil your daughter's two favorite colors into a wearable pendant with just a few scraps of felt!

Here's a brain-challenging treasure hunt for your third grader, calling upon math skills with money and with decimals!

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

If your science savy third grader is up for a challenge, let her bend light with a casserole dish!

Here's a math activity that uses coin riddles to help your third-grader improve his coin-counting and logical thinking skills.

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

This November, it's elephant versus donkey! Does your third grader understand the meaning behind the animals political parties choose to represent them?

Make a healthy, no-cook salad with some help from your third grade chef - and practice math and measurement while you're at it!

Practice math facts with your third grader was never so simple! This activity makes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and even division a lot more fun!

Your third grader will love both recreating and dressing up as his favorite reptile with this frightening crocodile jaw costume!

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

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

These gingerbread cookies can be baked by your third grader. Make a warm batch of gingerbread cookies to bring some extra holiday cheer to your home.

Take the pain out of parts by disguising your third grader's fraction lessons as baking with these pumpkin breakfast muffins complete with ghostly marshmallows!

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.

Is it a bird? Is it Superman? No, it's your third grader's homemade miniature plane zooming across the room on a zip line.

Probability can be a tough concept to master. Try playing this fun card game in order to help your third grader understand it a little better.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Your third grader will be amazed at the explosive combination of vinegar and baking soda in these chocolate volcano cupcakes with white chocolate "lava."

Learn about different fern fronds with your third grader as you create lacy, natural decorations on your Easter eggs this year.

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

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

Help your curious third grader construct a dazzling spinning wheel that will teach him about the science behind colors while providing some silly entertainment!

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.

Want to reuse materials that would otherwise get tossed in the trash? Show your third grader how to get crafty with old newspaper and fabric.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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