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 is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

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

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

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

Help your kindergartener practice his shape recognition and develop his fine motor skills by making a scarecrow at home.

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.

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

Play with shapes, like triangles and circles, to help your child review the different kinds and create a new picture!

This copying game is like a hopped up version of Simon Says, but it lets kids use their bodies to practice patterning, a key skill in early math.

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!

Regale your kindergartener with the beloved story of Rudolph, and then segue into a Christmas craft project in which he makes his own reindeer creation!

Celebrate the 100th day of school by creating a geometric, math-inspired mural in the style of Henri Matisse in this creative kindergarten grade art activity.

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

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

Help your preschooler create ice cube bead necklaces to cool off while practicing gross motor skills and sequencing, and discussing states of matter.

Sponges are easy to handle and fun to play with, and your child will love putting these simple, three-piece puzzles together.

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

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

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.

Help your little builder move up in the world with this recycled cardboard castle that's just the right size for a young king and his loyal stuffed subjects.

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

Pump up the learning level of your kindergartener's summer break by playing patriotic bingo when July 4th rolls around.

Disguise a lesson focused on shape recognition as a Santa collage, and your pre-kindergartener won't even realize she's learning!

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

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

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 Halloween, math activity: have your preschooler or pre-kindergartener carve shapes into a Jack-O-Lantern face and boost her shape recognition skills.

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

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