Building a rocket ship is a great way for kids to learn about measuring and construction. It'll fuel their creative side too!

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

Here's Twist 'N Turn: let your preschooler or pre-kindergartener be outside and active while learning about shapes, colors, directions, and word recognition.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

When your child is itching for a game, consider ditching Hide and Seek in favor of Shape and Seek. Here's how it works:

Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

Try this fun and interactive collage activity with your preschooler to teach her the "building blocks" of math and architecture.

Whether the snow is fluffy and soft or icy and hard, a snowman is sure to inspire a smile. No wonder this snowman is so happy—it's made using marshmallows!

This imaginative art activity will help your child to better understand symmetry and explore color and shape.

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

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.

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

Help your preschooler create ice cube bead necklaces to cool off while practicing gross motor skills and sequencing, and discussing states of matter.

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

Make a lei and bring a touch of the tropical lifestyle into your home!

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

Make a mixed up animal collage and help your preschooler build her visual arts and math skills along the way.

Boost shape recognition with this matching game where your child will pair up sticks to create simple shapes.

Using a fruit cereal and yarn, help your preschooler create crunchy, edible patterns.

This engaging, fun, pattern resist painting is inspired by your little one's love of shapes.

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

Sponges are easy to handle and fun to play with, and your child will love putting these simple, three-piece puzzles together.