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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Try this fun and interactive collage activity with your preschooler to teach her the "building blocks" of math and architecture.

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

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

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:

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

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

Bring the classic game of "Red Rover" up to date with color and shape recognition skills for your child.

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

Reuse old cardboard boxes and popsicle sticks to create a miniature sled that is perfect for pretend play with dolls or action figures.

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