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.

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.

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.

Boost shape recognition with this matching game where your child will pair up sticks to create simple shapes.

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

Using a fruit cereal and yarn, help your preschooler create crunchy, edible patterns.

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

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!

Pump up the learning level of your kindergartener's summer break by playing patriotic bingo when July 4th rolls around.

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

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.

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.

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

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

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

Want to add a little craftiness to preschool math? Break out the glue gun and create a button board!

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.

Whether the snow is fluffy and soft or icy and hard, a snowman is sure to inspire a smile. No wonder this snowman is so happy—it's made using marshmallows!

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.

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

Combine an introduction to shape and counting with a springtime art project by showing your kindergartener how to create a vibrant rainbow mosaic.

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!

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

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!

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

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!

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