If you’re looking for a fun indoor winter activity – this Winter Bingo is a lot of fun for kids! You can even use small white pom poms as pretend snowball bingo markers.
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Winter Bingo – Free Printable Cards
For a fun indoor winter activity – try out this simple Winter Bingo game. This is the perfect activity when the temperatures might be too cold to go outside. It’s also a fun game you can play virtually over a virtual video conferencing system to connect kids with friends or family from afar.
This free printable includes 10 Bingo Cards and if you have more kids you can double up for teams.
The printable also comes with a full page of calling cards. You can cut these up and place in a jar for selecting or just choose the images at random.
Supplies Needed for Winter Bingo
White Paper or Cardstock
Bingo Markers – see marker options we suggest you use below
Optional – Self Laminating Sheets
If you want to keep your bingo cards to reuse them every year, we recommend laminating them.
If you don’t laminate the cards and print them in black and white, Do-A-Dot Markers are great for this activity.
Bingo Marker Options
Marker Options: White pom poms (to look like snowballs), blue pom poms, white or blue buttons, fabric snowflakes
Pencil or Markers: You can have kids cross out the spots with a marker or a dot marker
How to Set-Up Winter Bingo
First print off the calling card and bingo cards (link to the free printable below).
1. Cut out the calling cards and place them in a bowl or jar for selecting.
2. Cut out the bingo cards. Each player gets a bingo card. If you have more than 10 players you can put kids into small groups to play together.
3. Use a candy or non-candy item as markers. When the image is called out, the player puts a marker on that image.
4. When calling out the images – you can describe the image or show the picture.
5. You can play for a line (5 in a row) or a full card. The first person to get a line says “Bingo!”. You can keep playing afterwards for more lines if you have more prizes to give out. There are 30 calling cards to choose from so a full card may result in having a few people winning at the same time depending on the number of players. We recommend playing mostly for lines because of this. Mix up the cards and start a new game after a few lines have been won.
How Can I Play With More People?
There are 10 unique cards included. If you have more than 10 players you can break them up into small groups and play in groups of 2-3 players. You can also hand out similar cards and have more than one winner at a time.
How to Print the Bingo Cards
Make sure you review the Print Preview before printing. Every printer is different so make sure you select “Print to Fit to Size” or look at the printer Scale Features (you can print at 90% scale) in your printer settings so that it does not print cut off if you are having issues.
Loved the Christmas Bingo. Came across it too late for school, so I printed it out and took it camping with my 16 yr old grandson and 16 yr old adopted son. They loved it. They won prizes for winning the Bingo games. Thanks for sharing it provided us with great memories!!