Beach Bingo
Difficulty: Very Easy
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These Beach Bingo cards can be printed off for any number of children. The cards refresh on the screen with random numbers. Be sure to check back for Bingo cards for holidays too! Don't forget the prizes!
Note: In our version of a Bingo game you do not call off the letters. Print the numbers sheet below and only call the numbers. The same numbers sheet can be used with any of our Bingo games.
What you'll need:
- Computer
- Printer
- Printer paper or cardstock
- Printable BINGO cards (see below)
- Scissors
- Miniature Sea Shells, shell macaroni, candies, or other markers (see tips for ideas)
- Con-Tact paper or laminate, optional
- Bowl
- Cardboard, optional
- Glue, optional
How to make it:
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Print a page of Beach Bingo cards.
If you experience printing problems:
All computers and printers handle printing from the internet differently.
Mac users can use 'shrink to fit' print option to get them to print on the page.
PC users can try two things:
First try changing the font size to something smaller and try again. In Explorer, use the "View - text zoom" menu, in Netscape "View - decrease font size". If that fails to help, you can print the page in 'landscape' mode and get two complete cards per page instead of four. - Now hit refresh (Internet Explorer = F5, Netscape = Ctrl+R). The page now displays new random numbers!
- Print the page again.
- Be sure to print off enough playing cards for each child to have one.
- If desired, cover with Con-Tact paper or laminate to be able to reuse the cards again next year.
- Print a page of Bingo numbers. HINT: Print off on cardstock or glue to cardboard to give the numbers stability.
- Cut the numbers apart on the lines.
- Place the numbers in a bowl.
- Give each child a Bingo card and a handful of markers (see tips below).
- Reach into the bowl, call out a number and the children place a marker on the number if it appears on their card.
- Play the game just like regular Bingo. Play for five in a row across, down, diagonally, or even play blackout by covering all the numbers on the card.
- Have fun and be sure to check back for additional Bingo cards at Kids Domain's Craft Exchange!
Tips:
Number markers can be candy, punched circles from cardstock, flat buttons, or any small item that you have a multitude of! If you are only going to use the cards once, use birthday stickers to cover the numbers as the numbers are called.
Little beach umbrellas, shovels and pails would be cute to use to decorate the tables for a beach BINGO party.
If you have a Mac, please choose "shrink pages to fit" option. Note: All computers and printers handle printing from the internet differently. If you have troubles getting 4 cards to print on a page in portrait mode, and do not have an option on your printer to "shrink pages to fit", try printing in landscape to get 2 cards per page.
