Family Christmas Bingo
Give each player 1 Christmas Bingo Card. (If you like, you can also give each player 2 or more cards.) Have everyone cross out the “Free Space” square in the middle of their Christmas Bingo Cards. Alternatively, use a Bingo chip, M&M, bead, Lego, coin or any small toy to mark the square. Free Christmas Bingo Printable Game Use this free Christmas Bingo game for your Christmas parties, family night, and church activities this holiday season. This Christmas Bingo printable game is definitely a family favorite around here! It’s fun, easy, and doesn’t require a lot of mental work on my part.
This classic Christmas bingo game is a simple way to entertain kids at holiday parties or for a fun family game night. Just print, cut, and play!
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Are your kids going bonkers for Christmas right now? Mine certainly are. We have lots of festive activities planned for the next few weeks, so hopefully the time will fly by quickly for them.
Last week, we kicked off December with a Polar Express party for some of the neighborhood kids. It was so fun! The kids had a ridiculous amount of sugar, so you know they all went home happy.
This week on the blog, I’m going to be sharing several posts about how I pulled together a festive and fun party without making myself completely crazy. Because nobody needs more stress this time of year.
First up is this printable Christmas Bingo game! It was one of our party games, and it was a hit! Whether you’re hosting family for the holidays, planning a neighborhood or class party, or are just looking for anything to keep your crazy kiddos occupied until Christmas, this game is for you!
Enough chit-chat though. Let’s get to making the game!
Materials
- Printable Bingo game packet
- Scissors or paper trimmer
- laminator/plastic sheets (optional but highly recommended if you want to be able to use the game again)
- Holiday M&Ms or other small markers (pennies, beads, mini erasers, etc.)
Instructions
- Print out and cut Bingo cards and calling cards. Laminate, if desired.
- Give each player a Bingo card and 25 small markers (we used M&Ms).
- Have players put a marker on the “free” space.
- Flip all the calling cards upside down. Flip one right side up and call it out (example: “snowman!”) and help players find and mark the snowman on their cards.
- Continue play until someone gets Bingo! After someone gets Bingo, you can continue the same game, or you can clear the boards and start a new round.
Notes
You can also try one of these variations:
- Instead of having one designated Bingo caller, allow players to take turns flipping over cards. (This only works well in small groups where you can put the cards in the middle of a table where everyone can reach.) Everyone still places a marker for each picture flipped over, not just the player who flipped it.
- Play around with the rules of what a player has to do to “win”. Require the winner to get two Bingos…or even Bingo in two different directions (my boys loved this one).
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How To Play Christmas With Family Bingo Bingo Cards
- Print and go Christmas With Family Bingo, Customize or start from scratch with Christmas With Family Bingo bingo cards by logging in or registering your Bingo Card Creator
- Give one card to each player.
- call off words randomly from the cut-aprt call list automatically genarated when you print your Christmas With Family Bingo. You can either just call out the word or give more involved clue where the answer is.
- Players mark the word on their card.
- Get the prize bag ready! The first player to mark words in an entire row, column or diagonal wins!.
Timing Tips:
How long a bingo game lasts depends on what pace you read the clues at and how many players you have. If you read faster, such as for older or more experienced students, or if you have more players, the game tends to end more quickly. In general, I suggest allocating between twenty and thirty minutes to a bingo game. Since they can potentially end as early as the fourth word called, though that is quite rare, I encourage you to keep playing in the event of the game being over earlier than you expected it to be. Almost 90% of bingo games with a 25 word list and 25 players will see their first bingo within 7 to 11 words being called.
Card Customization Tip:
You can use Bingo Card Creator to change the card size. This will help if you do not have a lot of time or for younger audiences.
You can use Bingo Card Creator to add pictures or change the free space to make a truly personalized bingo game .
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Family Christmas Quote
- Relative asks how your job is going
- Someone forgets a present
- Someone says, How 'bout those...
- Host forces leftovers on people
- Cleanup escapee
- Kid makes gift receiving awkward
- Baby meltdown
- Relative hovers with garbage bag
- Decorations are already down
- Must pretend you LOVE a gift
- Piece of glassware breaks
- Compared to someone else's accomplishments
- Relative asks if you are still single
- Relative asks why you are still single
- Recipe is swapped
- Food fight at kids table
- Spilled milk
- Crying over spilled milk
- Overlapping prayers
- Baby announcement
- Heated politics discussion
- Talk about weather
- Talk about infectious diseases
- Relatives attempts deep conversation with teenager
- Teenager denies deep conversation
- Wives gush over gift NOT from their husband
- Useless kitchen gadget is gifted
- Next Christmas is mentioned
- 4 kid pileup
- Witness brawl over toy
- Witness kid sneaking cookie