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Take a look at this oogly-googly eye Halloween craft! Have your child tweak the design to learn about balance and counterbalance with this crazy-eyed creature.

Banish your third grader's rainy day boredom by guiding his play group through a collaborative art project that leads up to the unveiling of a crazy creature!

This is a great activity for when the kids get a little stir crazy. It works indoors or out.

Introduce your second grader to the crazy world of static electricity with just a balloon and a sheet of paper.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Make these crazy shaped bubbles from simple items in the kitchen, and teacher your kids to experiment and hypothesize. Here's how:

Turn sweet treats into miniature masterpieces with this candy melting activity!

Take your child's knowledge of shapes out of the classroom and into the real world!

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Explore geometric shapes and pattern as your child makes her very own Hawaiian kapa cloth.

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Make vibrant faux stained glass art inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian, a Dutch painter who explored repeating shapes using the primary colors.

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

Mobiles make fun art projects for creative kids. Help your child bend simple pipe cleaners into bug shapes as diverse as the creepy crawlies that inspired them.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Beetles come in many shapes and colors. Here's how your second grade child can create his own beetles to paint and play with!

Learn about nature while creating a nest for baby chicks with this project that is a fun way to explore how to layer shapes and create texture.

This shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

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.

Patterns come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. As your child alters one element and then another they'll create a unique piece of artwork.

This fun art activity will get your child's creative juices flowing and will teach her about shapes, pattern and texture along the way.

Penguins just may be the cutest cold-weather creatures ever! Creating this penguin is a perfect way for your tot to practice cutting out different shapes.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Find the area in this fun math card game. You'll help your child start thinking in terms of units as you create shapes out of playing cards.

This season is a great time to explore the many shapes, sizes, and species of evergreen trees. Download our "field guide" activity and learn more!

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!