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 preschool activity uses paint chips to help your child learn about different shades of colors and how to find different colors in nature.

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

Learners will boost their visual recognition skills and become more familiar with different colors as they pair up craft sticks with the same patterns.

Your child will practice her counting and number recognition as she matches printed numbers to the same number of repetitions of a simple design.

Here's a color matching game that is perfect for winter! Your child will race against the clock to assemble the name of a color with its matching parts.

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

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

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

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

In this fun activity, your child will learn the difference between facts and opinions. They will design cards for a matching game that they create and play!

When critters protect themselves by taking on the patterns of nature, it's called "camouflage." Play this camouflage matching game with your child!

Bring some winter fun into your home while your child practices her number matching skills with this adorable snowman math game.

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

Make a natural wooden peg board to sharpen your child's color skills. Help your little one ace her color matching skills with this natural wooden peg board.

Introduce your child to the symbols of fall with this easy-to-make matching game that will hone observational skills and increase your kid's attention span.

Help your kindergarten scientist predict and observe as she explores the science of smell...and have a great time doing it, too.

Once your child has mastered the letters of the alphabet it's time to start building words! Try out this activity that encourages simple word recognition.

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

Satisfy your kindergartener's fascination of different sounds with this easy science project, where they'll use their ears instead of their eyes to identify sounds!

Does your child need help reading common words? Make this family board game. It's so fun, they won't even realize they're learning!

Tic-tac-toe is tons of fun, but the traditional version can get a little monotonous after a while. Mix it up and try this colorful outdoor version!

It's a race against time to see how quickly she can color match and correctly place all of the water beads!

Help your child see numbers three ways with this simple grab-and-go game, great for quick practice in the car.

Challenge your preschooler to a game of shape match-up--an entertaining way to boost her observational ability.

Your child will begin to recognize written color names as she looks at the different patterns and matches them up with the correct colors.

Your child can commemorate the best Halloween candy of all time using foam sheets to give your little monster a little practice tracing triangular shapes.

Using homemade felt alphabet letters and 26 colorful pictures, your preschooler will have a great time as they practice recognizing letters and their sounds.

Here's how to use crayon scraps to make beautiful stained glass window hangings.

Got a kid who's learning to read? Looking for a new board game to add to the bunch? With a little help from your child, you can make a game of your own!