Any decent Halloween celebration isn't complete without a cat. Even though this cat has an arched back to look as if it's hissing, it's still cute!

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

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

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

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

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

Help your kindergartener practice his shape recognition and develop his fine motor skills by making a scarecrow at home.

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

Learning to identify and categorize different geometric shapes is a big goal for early learners. And your neighborhood is the perfect place to start!

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!

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

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art 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.

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.

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

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!

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.