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Help your third grader enjoy activities learning critical skills by following step-by-step instructions and using easy-to-find materials. Play math card games and explore themes third graders can get excited about. These activities are great for parents and educators to teach multiplication, collaborative writing, and third grade science topics. Try third grade arts and crafts next.

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Play the Bag Game: Learn Parts of Speech

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

The Science of Sound

What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.

Make Your Own Cloud!

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

Balloon Air Pressure Magic

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Find the Math Fact Family

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

Candy Corn Science

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

Multiplication Tables Game

Practice multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun third grade math card game.

Play Sentence Scramble

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Vinegar and Baking Soda Balloon

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

Measurement Conversion Game

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

Number Maker: A Card Game to Practice Place Value

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practice with your child!

Frogs In Winter

Help your child create a tasty treat that will demonstrate exactly how frogs survive a freezing season.

How Old is That Tree?

Try this simple activity with your child to guesstimate the age of a tree in your yard and nurture her developing math skills while you're at it!

Make a Balloon Stick to the Wall Like "Magic"

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

Make Your Own Kente Cloth

Celebrate Black History Month by having your child make her own version of a kente cloth after learning what the different colors on a kente cloth symbolize.

Play Triangle Flash!: A Math Game

This is a great game to help your child learn number concepts in multiplication and division.

Homemade Kaleidoscope

Make a kaleidoscope at home to teach your child about the color spectrum and mirror science.

Fun With Reading

This game turns prediction, a major component of third grade reading, into a fun game.

Real World Math

You can try this simple activity with your third grader to get him thinking about the real world math you use everyday.

Make Homemade Glue!

This surprisingly good glue recipe comes from common kitchen items.

Coin Riddles: What's in Your Wallet?

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

Tour the Planets

This interdisciplinary card game will have your third grader working on math facts as he travels through the solar system!

Make Your Own Marshmallows

Make your own marshmallows and mix up some very interesting third grade chemistry lessons while you're at it!

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