Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

Kids love making shapes with Play-Doh, so they'll love creating their own colorful playful clay!

Help your child will learn about shapes and patterns by creating her own masterpiece mosaic out of dried beans.

Weave colorful Easter basket pictures out of construction paper and ribbon that open to reveal an assortment of fun Easter shapes!

Make a colorful rock mosaic that will help your child practice her patterns, shapes, and colors while making a beautiful work of art!

Mobiles make fun art projects for creative kids. Help your child bend simple pipe cleaners into bug shapes as diverse as the creepy crawlies that inspired them.

Your child can commemorate the best Halloween candy of all time using foam sheets to give your little monster a little practice tracing triangular shapes.

This shamrock wreath will allow your child to practice tracing and layering shapes and is the perfect way to get everyone in the mood for St. Patrick's Day.

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

This homemade educational travel game will keep your young child entertained and learning reading, writing, shapes and colors. All you need is a tissue box!

Recycle bottles of different shapes and sizes to create a group of unique dolls that are as unique as the real people around you!

Let your preschooler create something cute while making something delicious to eat: create bread sculptures, or shapes of bread dough!

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Got a jousting knight at home? Try this project and help him make his very own shield.

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Here's a salt dough recipe that can be used to make ghostly character sticks for fun Halloween decor.

Take some of the spirit of musical chairs and incorporate it into an indoor obstacle course that will fine tune your child's motor skills!

Cookie cutters aren't just for gingerbread men anymore. Here are 8 fun and creative projects to do with cookie-cutters!

What IS That Thing? is a game for kids of all ages that uses scrap paper and junk from around the house! A great way to recycle, reduce, and reuse.

With a few creases and crimps, you can turn regular old aluminum foil into tin foil art!

This colorful foam pencil topper will glam up any boring pencil and is guaranteed to add personality to any pencil case!

In this arts and crafts activity, encourage your preschooler to create these shape-stick puppets which can be used to put on plays or act out stories with.

Learn how to make a menorah with this simple Hanukkah craft. See how to make a menorah for the Festival of Lights.

Re-purpose an old glass bottle into a cute vase using a few pieces of felt and a little imagination.

Teach your kid a lesson about recycling by helping him create a letter holder out of an old cardboard box.

Create some flying bats with your little one this Halloween season. This activity is a great way for your little one to learn about symmetry.

Your first grader will improve her fine motor skills as she designs her own drum set with recycled household objects and art supplies!

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Create your own jigsaw puzzle using a blown-up family photo, and reconstruct the image as many times as you like. Here's how kids can make this gift.