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

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

This unique Santa is made only from circles. Your little one will have a fantastic time puzzling together Santa's face with this circle-centric activity.

Tangrams are a kindergarten staple, but now it's time to take them to the next level! Get your child started on geometry with this tangram puzzle.

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!

Check out this fun science fair project idea to learn about seismic waves and how fast they travel during an earthquake.

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

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

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.

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

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

Help your child practice symmetry with this fun activity that will leave your child with a sweet symmetrical treat!

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

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

Regale your kindergartener with the beloved story of Rudolph, and then segue into a Christmas craft project in which he makes his own reindeer creation!

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

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

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

Celebrate Easter, or just about any day, with a candy necklace. Grab your favorite candies, a string of yarn and get ready to make a yummy, colorful treat!

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

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Find the area in this fun math card game. You'll help your child start thinking in terms of units as you create shapes out of playing cards.

This heart paper chain is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine's Day. Include some decorations in a simple AB pattern and work on pattern recognition.

Get your preschooler ready for kindergarten by helping them learn numbers 1-10 with homemade snowflake counting cards in this arts and crafts activity.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

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.

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

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

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

Here's a hands-on activity you can do with your fourth-grader to practice measurement and directly apply the concept of area.