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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

Practice counting, sequencing, and pattern recognition with your young learner in this fun math card game!

Play the fridge magnet name game with your preschooler to help prepare her for kindergarten reading and writing.

How do you spell fun and learning? B-I-N-G-O! Children learn through play. And letter or number bingo is a great place to start.

Serve up this pretend play activity to your preschooler to give her counting skills a healthy boost.

These homemade thumbprint cards are as personalized as it gets, and your child will love using his prints to make holiday magic!

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

Want to make number skills second nature to your preschooler? Try these cheerful, "sunny" number flash cards!

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

Try this new twist to the traditional memory game to help your learner match number symbols to the correct quantity while sharpening their memory skills!

Your preschooler or kindergartener will count their way to Valentine's Day while designing an imaginative and artistic set of counting cards!

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Build a peek-a-boo book and give your child a fun vocabulary and reading boost, on the fly!