If your circles always end up looking like a deformed eggplant and you don't have a compass nearby, here's a simple trick to drawing a perfect circle with just a pencil and your finger.

to draw an almost-perfect circle with a pencil, as this demonstration shows: If you want to test your circle-drawing skills, check out this website that will rate how well you can draw one online.

In this activity, your child can make beautiful circle art using a ruler to draw straight lines. Have your child draw a circle onto the paper by tracing around a circular object, like a jar lid.