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

Boost your preschooler's math and verbal skills by having her participate in simple, fun activities that teach her how to sort, count, and categorize objects.

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!

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