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:

Your kindergartener will learn basic math concepts and create a beautiful keepsake with this African flag reference book.

Does the idea of taking your child to an art museum sound daunting? Create your own museum and give your child some practice with shapes!

This imaginative art activity will help your child to better understand symmetry and explore color and shape.

This engaging, fun, pattern resist painting is inspired by your little one's love of shapes.

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!

Find the area in this fun math card game. You'll help your child start thinking in terms of units as you create shapes out of playing cards.

Help your child practice symmetry with this fun activity that will leave your child with a sweet symmetrical treat!

Help your preschooler or preschooler with shape recognition, math, and matching by creating your own personal shapes cards, good for home or car.

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Use Henri Matisse as inspiration for your preschooler or kindergartener to create a unique and funky paper shapes collage in this arts and crafts activity.

Combine an introduction to shape and counting with a springtime art project by showing your kindergartener how to create a vibrant rainbow mosaic.

Have your child observe, measure and record the amount of space objects occupy, and you'll have an inside space explorer on your hands in no time!

Make a mixed up animal collage and help your preschooler build her visual arts and math skills along the way.

One of the most important parts of any Christmas tree is what's on top. This year, have your child make an angel that'll put the finishing touch on your tree!

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

Big bags hold a lot of candy, but they're hard to tote around. Have your kid construct a candy corn candy holder perfect for carrying a few lightweight treats.

This game is a great way to help your child remember the names of shapes. Give it a go and before you know it, your kid will have all her shapes down pat.

Using a fruit cereal and yarn, help your preschooler create crunchy, edible patterns.

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

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

This activity will help your child build his early math skills by practicing shape recognition.

Draw your own beautiful mandala with this easy technique that ensures symmetrical results every time!

Here's an innovative math puzzle that you can create with your fourth grade math student.

Boost shape recognition with this matching game where your child will pair up sticks to create simple shapes.

Create clear sound shakers so your preschooler can observe and compare the different sounds that objects make!

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

Try this fun and interactive collage activity with your preschooler to teach her the "building blocks" of math and architecture.

Build your child's vocabulary by exploring and discussing spatial relationships during everyday activities such as building, rearranging, and ordering.