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:

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.

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.

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.

This Halloween math activity book is a whole lot of fun.

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.

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:

In this fun snack-time activity, kids boost counting, sorting, and color recognition skills as they make a delicious and nutritious snack.

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

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

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.

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

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

In this simple math activity, your young learner will compare two types of Valentine's Day candy using a Venn diagram.

Teach your preschooler color recognition using this handy egg carton sorter. She will group objects by color and learn to recognize their names with this tool.

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

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

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.