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:

This activity is a great way to practice sorting, counting, matching, and other early math skills--- on the fly.

The garden is the perfect place to practice math and science with preschoolers. Get digging (and counting, sorting, observing at the same time!)

Practice math and social studies skills with this fun game based on the Battle of Lexington and Concord.

Make an edible bracelet from Froot Loops and a shoelace! This Block Institute art activity will engage your special needs or mainstream child at snacktime.

In this preschool counting game, kids learn to count with their fingers, but without their eyes!

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

Put your junk mail to good use! Armed with a stack ads and a few simple art supplies, your preschooler can make a cool poster for his room.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

Your child will learn more about coins and their denominations as he's asked to identify similar coins.

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Help your preschooler grasp the concept of ordering and sequence while teaching him valuable vocabulary with simple activities around the house.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

This flexible activity for preschoolers features jellybeans, counting, coloring, and the five senses.

For a fun family activity to introduce your child to genetics, have your child go on a search for dominant and recessive family genes!

Does your kid have a stash of sweets left over from Halloween? Turn that pile of candy into a learning opportunity with this sorting and categorizing activity.

Hone observational skills and introduce the basics of data interpretation with this data gathering activity all about the different colors people wear.

This educated-guessing game is great for preschoolers. This activity helps your child work on her reasoning skills.

Sorting objects by size, color, shape, or function is an important concept in kindergarten math, and it's the perfect excuse for a little housekeeping!

Your preschooler wonât need a passport to go on this nature safari! All you need are paper, crayons and a nature trail or your back yard.

This St. Patrick's day, stretch your child's social studies and math skills with this fun, cooperative learning game.

Explore the math concept of probability with your fifth grader on "lucky" St. Patrick's day this year!

With this fun activity, you can help your preschooler make an cute shopping notepad to keep and use or give away as a gift. Here's how:

Put your kid in charge of her own survey! She'll poll her relatives and friends, collect information, and then create a colorful chart to display her findings.

Graph are a great way to organize information. Your child will get to practice graphing by creating a bar graph and a pictorial graph of her friend's names.

Increase your child's confidence in interpreting bar graphs and throw a little candy into the mix to sweeten the learning process.

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Need help encouraging your preschool child to organize her toys? Start with this activity, and turn sorting and categorizing into a fun game.