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:

Create a graph based on the interests of family member's to see who has what in common. Your child will practice her math skills and get to know the family!

Here's a fun math activity for your preschooler: play Sock Sort and help your pre-kindergartener recognize numbers!

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.

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

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

Analyze this simple betting game with your fourth grade student in order to discuss probability.

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.

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.

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

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.

Help your preschooler practice counting, matching, and learning colors with this fun game!

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.

Give your smart second grader a rich challenge with this activity that combines graphing practice with money!

This fun math card game is a great opportunity to discuss probability with your third grader.

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

Check out this dice game perfect for teaching your savvy kid the fundamentals of probability.

Encourage your kindergartener to investigate and chronicle the weather she observes during the coldest months of the year.

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

Challenge your third-grader to sharpen her new math skills--and maybe do the planet a favor, too.

Help your child learn the language of mathematics through cupcakes with this fun counting activity.

Challenge your kindergartener to finding out if a coin toss is really fair by conducting this coin toss experiment.

Here's a fun, geometric puzzle activity that will capture your child's interest and strengthen his number awareness and graphing skills.

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

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

Learn about the microclimate of your backyard by tracking rainfall, temperature, and observed weather with hand drawn charts and graphs.

Try a 100th Day of School Scavenger Hunt with your preschooler, and send her on the search for objects of different colors!

Play this fun matching game with your kindergartener! It's a great way to practice math and number skills with playing cards.

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

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