Great for families, Parents magazine has a variety of bingo card games for groups of four. To name a few, they have car bingo, supermarket bingo and doctor’s office bingo designed to keep kids engaged while running errands. The article provides instructions on how to customize bingo games for younger and older children.
Perfect for classrooms or practice at home. These bingo cards are created with a bingo card maker and feature multiplication table squares.
Bingo is about as athletic as we get, but we really enjoyed this story about how bingo card games were introduced at Chicago Cubs games. Winners of the sports bingo game won autographed memorabilia and other neat prizes and the fans absolutely loved it!
This from Matthew Wszolek, Director of sales and promotions, Chicago Cubs:
“Giveaways for us have always been a very important piece of what we do, not necessarily to drive ticket sales but more or less to enhance the Wrigley Field experience. … There’s other ways to skin the promotional cat when it comes to expenses and economic conditions in that you can do something like we did in September of this year where we had Bingo Night. Out of all the years I’ve done stuff here, this is my ninth year, it was the most incredibly well-received promotion we ever did. People received bingo cards when they came in to the game that had one of 51 different elements on it that could happen in a baseball game, not just Cubs-specific. If they covered the card, they won a bingo, which was autographed memorabilia or the chance to throw out a first pitch next year. Fans were interactively playing along the entire game. Instead of just giving them an item that they kept, they got to play along for three hours. People were ridiculously out of their minds, and I got 250 letters from season-ticket holders saying that was the most fun they’ve had at a ball game, especially given the fact that we weren’t playing very well at the time. It made the Wrigley Field experience better.”
This article gives some great ideas of how to play bingo with any age group. Use bingo cards printed from the web, bingo card software, or your own design program. You can make bingo games that appeal to children in preschool, elementary school or older children. You can also create your own bingo games for adults based not just on numbers, but themes such as song titles or U.S. cities. Finally, there’s the ever popular baby shower bingo which includes all baby terms.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Kids love to play Bingo. There’s something about the adventure of being able to match what the Bingo caller is saying with the squares on their Bingo card – combined with the sheer delight of being able to yell “Bingo” before anyone else.
You can create custom Bingo cards using a basic Bingo template. The age of the children will determine what you preprint in the squares:
* For preschoolers – Consider using colors and shapes.
* For elementary school ages – Simple words, letters or numbers work well.
* For older children – Let children create their own boards with words that meet a predetermined theme such as state capitals, names of famous people or things you see on a car ride.”
It’s never to early to get ready for the school year with customizable, printable bingo cards from Perceptus. You can select from multiple categories such as reading, social studies and playground to help ease your child back into the school mindset. Next, select a card format, create word lists and BINGO! Free printable bingo cards with a “back to school” theme. For a fee, you can also download call sheets and serialized cards.
