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Here's a Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

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 imaginative shape activity will introduce your kindergartener to the world of shape and color while building basic math skills.

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

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

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

Kids love making shapes with Play-Doh, so they'll love creating their own colorful playful clay!

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

This activity will encourage your child to discover the scientific process, compare sizes shapes, and build shape recognition skills.

This unexpected art project is sure to result in a Picasso-esque jumble of imagination that will teach your kid about shapes, colors, and abstract form!

Your child can commemorate the best Halloween candy of all time using foam sheets to give your little monster a little practice tracing triangular shapes.

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

Christmas stencils let your preschooler make his mark on the holiday. Make Christmas stencils with your young crafter this holiday season.

Regale your kindergartener with the beloved story of Rudolph, and then segue into a Christmas craft project in which he makes his own reindeer creation!

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!

Your preschooler or kindergartener will count their way to Valentine's Day while designing an imaginative and artistic set of counting cards!

Make your own ribbon to give gifts that special touch. Enlist your preschooler or kindergartener to help create an extra special holiday ribbon this winter.

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.

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!

Make matzoh more fun! Help your preschooler or kindergartener design a matzoh puzzle from broken pieces of the flatbread.

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

A heart collage is the perfect Valentine's Day art project for your young artist. Make a heart collage this February with your child.

Kids can put old magazines and unwanted clothing to good use by creating an Earth Day-themed multimedia collage in this eco-friendly arts and crafts activity.

Heart math is a great way to celebrate Valentine's Day and familiarize your advanced preschooler with the concept of adding numbers.

Here's a salt dough recipe that can be used to make ghostly character sticks for fun Halloween decor.

Show your child how to make homemade wrapping paper with a twist by using sponge art to create the fabulous designs. Here's how:

Here is a guide to making a felt busy book that's perfect for focusing on specific learning areas with your child.

This year on Dad's day, here's a creative gift that your child can make using simple materials, some of them even recycled.

Put together a pine forest to help you count down the days until Christmas with your little one.