Third grade crafts activities

This DIY kaleidoscope using a toilet paper roll is a fun science activity and craft that teaches all about light, symmetry and reflection in a hands-on way. Younger children might need help with this STEAM activity, while second grade, third grade, fourth grade and up can do this STEM activity on their own. #stem #steam #scienceforkids #lightscience #craftsforkids #kidscrafts #handsonlearning

Mrs. T's First Grade Class: End of the Year Projects

Students choose different ways to create the longest paper chain out of one sheet of construction paper in this easy to prep and complete STEM Challenge.

Decorate and fly these fun paper plate frisbees this summer!

How to Make a Pom Pom Shooter. This is a fun STEM activity for preschool and kindergarten kids to make. #stem #preschool #kindergarten

Third grade is a super important year for a kid’s school life. When you look into 3rd grade, you’ll see that this is the year kids move from just learning how to read to using reading to understand more things. During this time, your child is probably getting better at schoolwork, growing physically, and fitting in with friends.

The kids will have so much fun decorating and making their very own paper bag kites - just in time for spring!

Help your students remember this unforgettable year with this End of Year writing activity. This craft makes a great bulletin board or keepsake for students.

Send them off with a smile!

Learn how to make a dreamcatcher using paper plates and keep bad dreams away! These DIY dreamcatchers are so pretty and so easy to make!

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Celebrate the end of the school year and make plans for summertime fun with this printable summer activity. Students can write down their holiday goals such as driving to the beach, reading a new book, or learning a new skill on their personalised surfboards to take home. 🏖️

A great activity to help keep your sanity during your last week of school and allow your students to capture their third grade selves! Includes two versions... 1. The first version looks great on colored paper! Be sure to copy each page on a different color page to achieve the look of my example. 2. The second version is perfect on white paper and allows your students to use their creativity when filling in and decorating it!

Looking for some fun end of year or summer-themed math crafts and activities? Then check these out! Students can make 3D paper beach houses, paper chains, popsicle crafts or lift-the-flap sandcastles – all while practicing core math facts like addition and subtraction within 20, multiplication facts, skip counting, multiplication strategies and more! Great for end of year revision or multiplication practice and covering lots of math skills for 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade.

With so many different times throughout the year that you can use this in your classroom (first week of school writing activity, New Year/Back from break writing activity, end of the year writing activity), we’ve included all the writing prompts to go with them, making this an easy and low-prep writing activity for your students. Display these for the cutest bulletin board idea!

In an era of high stakes testing, art is sometimes the first thing to go but we as teachers need to find ways to continue providing art experiences for our students. Not only is art just plain fun, and let's face it, kids do need fun, but it's much more than that. Art is beneficial in so many ways! Find out ways to incorporate art in this post by The Teacher Next Door.

7 End of Year Friendship Activities for Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade that can also be used as end of year student gifts or station activities

Classroom movie day ideas and activities that are both fun and educational with FREE printable movie day resource to keep students engaged and still learning even after the movie is over! Ideal for end of the year theme days or any time teachers show a movie.

I came home from school yesterday and cried. And not because the end of the year is so overwhelming, busy, and exhausting...{although that may be where part of the tears are coming from. JK! #AmIJustKiddingThough??} But because I’m going to miss my kids SO much. For 180 school days, 23 of my third grade students and I have laughed, cried, worked hard, learned so many new things together, and have built some really amazing relationships with one another. I’ve watched them grow not only as…