How to Make Thanksgiving Bingo Cards
Bingo can be a great group game for Thanksgiving parties or family get-togethers while waiting for, or recovering from, the big meal. You can design and print your own Thanksgiving bingo cards, or create customized bingo cards online quickly and easily. You may want to use fall colors, such as yellow, light orange, tan or green for your paper or cardstock, especially if you don’t have a color printer. You can decorate the Thanksgiving bingo cards using clip art, or you can decorate them with Thanksgiving or autumn-themed stickers or rubber stamps. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Computer
- Word processor or desktop publishing program
- Printer
- Cardstock or colored paper
- Scissors
Instructions
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Start a blank document in Microsoft Word, another word processor or a desktop publishing program.
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Choose landscape orientation and 1/2-inch margins if you want to fit two bingo cards on each sheet of paper. Most programs have a "Page Setup" option in the File menu for this. Set up two columns using the "Column" option in the Format menu, or a similar command.
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Create a table with five columns and six rows, using the "Insert Table" command from the Table menu in Microsoft Word, or draw a grid using the line tools in a desktop publishing program. If you have two columns, insert a table or grid in each column.
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Type the letters “BINGO” at the top of the table, or substitute a Thanksgiving-themed five-letter word, such as THANK or FEAST.
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Type “Free” in the center square, or use a special free space symbol, such as a turkey, if desired.
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Insert turkeys, pilgrims, corn, autumn leaves, cornucopias and other Thanksgiving- or fall-themed clip art in the squares. Or, use clip art to decorate the borders of the bingo card and type numbers in each space. If you have two bingo cards on the page, make sure each uses a different combination of pictures or numbers.
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Save the bingo card file. Use the "Save As" command to create more bingo cards with the same layout, but a different combination of Thanksgiving pictures or numbers, until you have enough cards for all the players.
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Print the Thanksgiving bingo cards on card stock or fall-colored paper. Cut each sheet in half to separate the two cards, if applicable.
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Make a page with all of the clip art, or all the letter and number combinations. Print out the sheet and cut apart the pictures or numbers to use as calling cards.
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Tips & Warnings
You may want to give out small prizes to the winners, such as chocolate candies with foil wrappers that look like turkeys or pumpkins, or use the bingo game to determine who gets to pick which chore to do first.
