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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.

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

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.

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!

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!

This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.

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!

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

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

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

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

Sponges are easy to handle and fun to play with, and your child will love putting these simple, three-piece puzzles together.

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Have fun with the kids by "shaping up" your standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, and teach kids about sorting and shapes while you're at it.

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