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

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!

Help your preschooler practice counting, matching, and learning colors with this fun game!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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: