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

Shamrock Stamps are a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Simple and symmetrical, this symbol of Irish culture is the perfect shape for prints.

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

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.

Encourage your child to compare and contrast a wide variety of autumn-themed items by weighing various objects and recording their findings.

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

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

Play this hidden number game with your preschooler that will give her a leg up in learning numbers.

Send your child on a hunt throughout the house for numbers to help develop her number recognition and ordering skills.

Help your child learn the language of mathematics through cupcakes with this fun counting activity.

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

Your child will learn more about coins and their denominations as he's asked to identify similar coins.

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.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

In this preschool counting game, kids learn to count with their fingers, but without their eyes!

Want to turn snack time into fun-time? Help him turn ordinary rice cakes into creatures that are silly, creepy, or just plain cute!

You kid can count from one to ten, no problem. They can even do it backward. Work on their addition and subtraction skills with this fun fruit picking activity.

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

Get your preschooler ready for kindergarten by helping them learn numbers 1-10 with homemade snowflake counting cards in this arts and crafts activity.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

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

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

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

This activity spotlights everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, and preserves your child's handprints in his "antlers".

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.

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

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:

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

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: