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

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

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!

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

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

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

Reuse old cardboard boxes and popsicle sticks to create a miniature sled that is perfect for pretend play with dolls or action figures.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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: