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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 maths 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 year four science topics. Try Year four arts and craftsNext.

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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.

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 maths skills while you're at it!

Balloon Air Pressure Magic

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

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!

Real World maths

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

Multiplication Tables Game

Practise multiplication facts and geography at the same time in this fun year four maths card game.

Homemade Kaleidoscope

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

Play Sentence Scramble

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

Number Maker: A Card Game to practise Place Value

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

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.

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 a Dr. Seuss Story Box!

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

Vinegar and Baking Soda Balloon

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

Coin Riddles: What's in Your Wallet?

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

Find the maths Fact Family

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

When I Grow Up I Want To Be...

Make a poster with your child about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practise her writing, researching, and artistic skills.

Measurement Conversion Game

Practise conversions within the metric system in this fun maths card game for third graders.

Tic-Tac-Toe Multiplication

Play tic-tac-toe and help your kid memorize multiplication facts!

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.

Make Your Own Marshmallows

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

Fun With Reading

This game turns prediction, a major component of year four reading, into a fun game.

Write a Collaborative Story

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

This fun maths card game is a great opportunity to discuss probability with your third grader.

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