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 hands-on activity that involves arranging pieces of yarn will teach your pre-K child the concept of ordering items by length in an interesting way.

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.

There's nothing like a treasure hunt to get kids excited about math and sorting.

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.

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!

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

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.

Want to ensure that your child's math knowledge stays sharp? This mean, median, and mode game is the perfect way to reinforce these essential math concepts.

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

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

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

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

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

Here's a preschool color collage activity to help your child work on their sorting skills, and create a beautiful addition to the refrigerator gallery.

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

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

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

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 math activity for your preschooler: play Sock Sort and help your pre-kindergartener recognize numbers!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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