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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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:

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.

Bring the classic game of "Red Rover" up to date with color and shape recognition skills for your child.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.