Third Grade Fall Activities

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find. 

Incorporate some math and science thinking into your annual fall fun with this pumpkin investigation activity! Your child will have a blast investigating various ways of measuring pumpkins, making estimates, taking measurements, and recording their findin

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills! 

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Enjoy the season of crunchy leaves and crisp harvest scents with a tall glass of pumpkin juice.

Cheer on your home team with a savory snack shaped just like a real football!

Challenge your kid's creativity with a fun fall art project that features you as the collaborator.

Celebrate the season with a fall centerpiece art project your child can display for the whole family!

Reinforce your child's measurement and problem solving skills this holiday season! This decadent bread pudding, dressed up with pumpkin and warm spices, is a holiday show-stopper.

Topped with roasted pumpkin, prosciutto, herbs, and feta, these pita pizzas are a healthy, seasonal alternative to your classic pie.

This pumpkin snowman will keep your porch or backyard festive from Halloween to New Year's Day. Make a pumpkin snowman and combine the best of fall and winter.

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

Halloween is a great opportunity to look around and see faces that are funny, scary, happy and sad.

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

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Most often, a collage is 2-dimensional, but instead of using paper as a base, this project uses an inexpensive pumpkin from the craft store.

Enjoy some autumn fun, and develop measurement skills with this sweet-smelling fall art project.

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

A package of memory wire and some beads are all that your artist needs to make a bracelet. The challenge will be to come up with a design inspired by autumn.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Celebrate autumn by making a beautiful pastel art piece with corn as its theme.

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