Help your fourth or fifth grader design and write their own innovative greeting card by formulating a poem in the shape of their favorite object of choice.

This arts and crafts activity will help your kindergartener with shape and color recognition.

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

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

This activity will encourage your child to discover the scientific process, compare sizes shapes, and build shape recognition skills.

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

Shamrock Stamps are a great way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Simple and symmetrical, this symbol of Irish culture is the perfect shape for prints.

Create a fun fall leaf rubbing with your child to explore shapes and textures this fall.

Make interesting art and learn about shapes, lines and patterns by using spaghetti noodles.

Explore the positive and negative shapes of a piece of fruit or a vegetable by doing a contour cut-out drawing.

Kids feel like theyâre playing with dinner, and get to explore different shapes of pasta while making a mirror image print with tomato sauce.

Patterns come in many shapes, sizes, and colors. As your child alters one element and then another they'll create a unique piece of artwork.

Preschoolers can explore shapes and texture in this fun and fantastically messy art project!

Use marbles and paint to explore the wild world of shapes and color...and build writing strength, too.

This Christmas collage lets your child learn shapes, cubist art of Picasso and have fun during the holidays!

Kids will love painting shapes of objects in a still life while using strong colors showing highlights and shadows.

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

This unexpected art project is sure to result in a Picasso-esque jumble of imagination that will teach your kid about shapes, colors, and abstract form!

Make some cool hearts that are sure to brighten anyone's Valentine's Day. This project is a opportunity to play with overlapping shapes and show your love!

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

Your child will come to better understand symmetry as he create this dramatic black bat mask. It's sure to lend a dark touch to any Halloween costume.

Be careful what you wish for... Centered around The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs, this writing activity encourages your child to consider consequences.

Everyone loves homemade cookies, but have you ever thought about making the cookie cutters at home? Here's some instructions for making homemade cookie cutters.

Make an initiation shield like the ones from the Kikuyu tribe in Africa for an art project.

Your child can emulate M.C. Escher with this hands-on art project for fall and Thanksgiving.

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

Help your child to make a beautiful Africa mask to help her reinforce important spatial and compositional skills.

Design a fruit-inspired artwork using paints, paper plates, and real watermelon seeds in this seasonal craft project!

Help your child make a picture of a four-leaf clover this St. Patrick's Day. It's thought that whoever finds a four-leaf clover will enjoy good luck!

This Valentine's Day, spend a couple of hours with your child constructing a colorful, spring-limbed "heart man"!