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:

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.

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.

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

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.

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:

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Kindergarten algebra is a lot different than high school. In kindergarten math, algebra means grouping like things, or noticing what doesn't belong in a set.

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

Celebrate Chinese New Year by teaching your child how to use chopsticks! She'll build her math and fine motor skills as she does this activity.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Probability can be a tough concept to master. Try playing this fun card game in order to help your third grader understand it a little better.

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

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

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

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

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.

This do-it-anywhere guessing game helps reinforce number concepts. And it's a blast to play.

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