How to Play Barbie Bingo and Other Variations
This game uses traditional Bingo rules, but is dressed up with a Barbie theme.
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Things You'll Need
- Hats
- Prizes
- Scissors
- Colored Pens
- Notebook Papers
- Rulers
- Barbie Stickers
- Colored pens
Instructions
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Play this game with a group of at least four girls.
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Make your own Bingo cards. Divide each sheet of paper into five horizontal columns and five vertical columns, leaving room at the top of the page to write letters.
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Write "B", "A", "R", "BI", and "E" across the top of the cards.
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Draw a heart in the center box - the middle box in the "R" column. This is a "free space."
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Fill in the other spaces in the columns randomly with numbers between 1 and 10 or 1 and 20, depending on how old the girls are and how well they know their numbers.
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Make the placement of numbers on each card different.
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Decorate the cards with Barbie stickers around the borders.
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Write out some slips of paper. For each letter at the top of the Bingo cards, make slips that have that letter and each of the numbers you are using. For example, you would have slips for B1, B2, B3 and so on for all letter-number combination.
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Give each girl a Bingo card and heart-shaped pieces of paper to use as markers.
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Tell them to use a marker to cover the free space in the center.
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Place your slips of paper in a hat and draw one at a time. Read them out loud.
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Tell the girls to look for the letter and number that you call out. For example, if you call "E6," the girls should look for a 6 in the "E" column.
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Tell them to cover the box with a heart if they find the combination that you call.
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Declare as the winner the first girl who covers every space in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal row. You can have the girls call "Barbie!" instead of "Bingo" to indicate they've filled a row.
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Play again and give prizes to the winners.
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Tips & Warnings
For a variation on this and to make it easier for younger children, make up your cards without any letters at the top of the columns. Fill the boxes with words or pictures of Barbie-related things: an earring, a dress, a shoe, Ken, and Skipper, for example. If you aren't good at drawing, cut pictures out of catalogs or toy ads, make color copies and glue them onto the cards. Put one photo or word of each item in the hat to draw out.
You can make a Bingo game for any theme. Think of a word that could go on the top of the cards or think of some pictures or words you could use in the squares.
