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.

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:

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Want to add a little craftiness to preschool math? Break out the glue gun and create a button board!

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.

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

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

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

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