3rd Grade Activities : Page 4

While your cells are much too small to see without a microscope, you can create the look of a cell in your very own home with just an egg and vinegar!

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

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

Is it magic? No...it's the amazing, gravity-defying capillary action experiment! Kids will love this dramatic and enlightening science fair project.

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

Inspire your child to put on her engineer hat for the day, as she builds her very own, double-decker bridge.

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.

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

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.

Promote your child's appreciation for Jackie Robinson, an important figure in African-American history, by having your child create a baseball card!

Tea time is a chance for a lesson in etiquette while she plays. Quality time to read a book and talk about good manners.

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.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

How does a kazoo, the strings of a guitar, or the speaker of a radio make sound? The purpose of this science fair project is to show how vibration makes sound.

Your child can cut and fold her way to lots of lovely spring tulips through the art of origami!

Why does honey crystallize? This science fair project project answers this question and identifies the variable that makes this sweet solute crystallize faster.

Introduce your child to the world of motion and physics with a bit of marble play inspired by Sir Isaac Newton!

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.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will learn about emotions and how they change, just like many parts of nature. Then they will spend time outside, exploring and reflecting on what they have learned.

Show your third grader how to string together a pretty, decorative harp.

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

A great way to cultivate awareness, focus and attention in the present is through movement. Mindful movement can also decrease stress and anxiety and increase calm.

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

Use simple items to create a kindergarten "grow box" that lets a kid see just how salad plants send down their roots and grow underground.

Set your young chemist up for an afternoon of science-fueled magic with a deceptively simple activity starring baking soda and vinegar!

Build a paper boat that's modeled on the ones used to cross the Nile River in ancient Egypt!