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

This cookie dough handles like molding clay, but also makes delicious cookies. Use this activity to strengthen your child's alphabet skills.

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.

Introduce the idea of measuring weight to your preschooler or kindergartener by making a fun and easy-to-use bungee scale to weigh household objects.

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

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.

If your preschooler needs counting practice, try this pared-down game. Kids count clips in each cup and find the playing card to match.

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

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

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Does your preschooler like cereal? Explore numbers with everyday objects and food with this fun counting activity.

This Hanukkah countdown craft will help your little one count the eight nights of Hanukkah. Make a Hanukkah countdown calendar with your child.

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

Strengthen your child's number recognition skills with this fun game using an old, empty egg carton!

In this activity your little one will throw a beanbag at a numbered target to help improve their number recognition skills.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

Forget the measuring stick! This fun math activity uses a body part, your child's hand, as a ruler.

Help your child identify numbers with this fun preschool math art activity! Explore different textures and colors as he learns numbers.

Familiarize your preschooler with the concept of numbers one through five and counting with this hands-on activity.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

With this fun activity, you can help your preschooler make an cute shopping notepad to keep and use or give away as a gift. Here's how:

You don't need to spend big bucks to buy a pre-boxed version of a matching game at the store. You can make your own easily. Here's how: