Here's an arts and crafts activity for preschoolers and pre-kindergarteners: build brick buildings with homemade mud bricks made from dirt and water.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Kids love making shapes with Play-Doh, so they'll love creating their own colorful playful clay!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Do something totally unique and new with a pumpkin this year! Practice designing patterns with stripes, zigzags, or geometric shapes. The sky's the limit!

Winter is a great time to create a textured polar bear. Not only will your child gain practice identifying shapes, they'll also work on fine motor skills.

Let your preschooler create something cute while making something delicious to eat: create bread sculptures, or shapes of bread dough!

If your kid likes to color, you probably know all too well that crayons go quickly. Put those crayon stubs to use by creating colorful ironed wax paper art!

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

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

Decorate eggs for Easter without the mess by making an Easter egg collage instead in this preschool arts and crafts activity.

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

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

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

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