Learning to identify and categorize different geometric shapes is a big goal for early learners. And your neighborhood is the perfect place to start!

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.

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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

This activity introduces growth mindset and looking at mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than obstacles. Your child will understand the difference between seeing a mistake as a learning opportunity, rather than as a disappointment.

Use Henri Matisse as inspiration for your preschooler or kindergartener to create a unique and funky paper shapes collage in this arts and crafts activity.

Every day will be a new experience as you explore and learn about the different colors.

In this science fair project, young children observe, record, and create collections of shapes in their world and increase their powers of observation.

This arts and crafts activity will help your kindergartener with shape and color recognition.

Since every person's fingerprint is unique, a fingerprint keychain is a fun way for your kindergartener to leave her own special mark on a useful item.

Take a nature walk in your backyard or local park to find one object for every letter of the alphabet. Then put them together in this handy nature book.

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Getting your treasures from place to place is tough. Help your child with this task by making a denim pouch from recycled blue jeans!

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

Introduce shapes to art projects with this fun Valentine-themed craft.

Do a little kitchen chemistry as you make your own bubble solution and bubble-wand shapes!

This Christmas collage lets your child learn shapes, cubist art of Picasso and have fun during the holidays!

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Make your own dreidel from modeling clay with this Hannukah craft activity!

In this project children discover, identify, and sort seeds from a variety of fruits and vegetables

Use paper and paste to create a colorful collage of shapes that turns into a school bus right before your eyes.

Use your cookie cutters with jello to have the kids create a story with the shapes they choose.

Make a slithery snake from paper chains and learn about patterns at the same time.

Create a fun fall leaf rubbing with your child to explore shapes and textures this fall.

In this science fair project, we'll explore how blocking the sun's light can stop those can stop photosensitive paper from changing color.

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

What IS That Thing? is a game for kids of all ages that uses scrap paper and junk from around the house! A great way to recycle, reduce, and reuse.

Teach your child the value of hard work with this adorable hen craft, based on the hardworking heroine from the classic folktale "The Little Red Hen."