Free Printable Summer Bingo Activities for Kids
Summer bingo activities are the perfect way to practice vocabulary skills! Since summer is here, you may be looking for fun and engaging activities to keep your students motivated on hot days. That's why I’ve created a free Summer Bingo board set that is perfect for targeting vocabulary skills related to summer.
Moreover, this Summer Bingo game is editable in Canva and comes with 8 different summer bingo boards and 32 riddle calling cards. Keep reading to find out how to use this fun game to target vocabulary in a fun way!
Why Use This Summer Bingo Game?
Bingo games are a great way for speech therapists to work on vocabulary skills. Especially if you are looking for low-prep ideas that are both fun and educational!
Therefore, this summer bingo game has many features that make it the perfect addition to your speech room this school year. Here are just a few:
- Free to edit in Canva!
- Also available in Spanish! (Great for bilingual students to join in the fun)
- 5 editable bingo game boards
- 32 editable riddle calling cards
- Colorful and illustrated bingo boards.
The game is available in both English and Spanish and has five different bingo boards, allowing you to use the game with small groups or individual students.
The game is also editable in Canva, which means you can customize it to suit your students' needs and interests!
These free printable games are a great way to celebrate the end of the year before your students go on summer break! If you're working summer school, then you can also use this bingo game to target your students' vocabulary skills.
However, please note that these free printable bingo cards are for personal use only and should not be sold or shared.
Social Interaction
Bingo games are great for getting students to interact with each other. While playing, they need to listen, understand, and respond to their classmates, which helps improve their communication and social skills.
For instance, in a summer bingo session, students might pair up or form small groups to solve the riddles on the calling cards, encouraging teamwork and collaborative problem-solving.
This is especially great for your middle school students working on their social skills!
These interactions help students build their expressive and receptive language skills in a fun, relaxed environment.
This marine life bingo is also a great companion to many of my “How to Catch a Mermaid” activities. If you want more activities for the “How to Catch ….” Book series, check out this blog post about “How to Catch the Easter Bunny Activities!”!
Here are the words that are included in this marine life bingo game:
coral, seaweed, mermaid, jellyfish, school of fish, manta ray, starfish, clam, pearl, anchor, treasure chest, seashell, trident, barnacles, octopus, sand dollar, clown fish, squid, seahorse, shark, buoy, lighthouse, shrimp, crab, message in a bottle, scuba diver, shipwreck, dolphin, lobster, waves, tentacle, and eel.
Active Learning
Playing games like bingo helps students learn actively, making them part of the learning process rather than just sitting and listening.
This is especially helpful for students with communication disorders, as it gives them a fun way to practice their language skills in a supportive setting.
Students who engage in active learning activities, like educational games, tend to do better academically and remember what they've learned for longer.
Bingo Activities Help with Language Development
This summer season, get this game to help your students with vocabulary, inferencing, and more!
The game encourages active listening, comprehension, and turn-taking, which are essential skills for effective communication.
Additionally, the vocabulary words have a summer theme can help students expand their language skills and learn new words and concepts.
Grab these summer and marine life bingo games today!
Evidence-Based Practice
Research shows that using games in learning really works. A study by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) found that adding game-based activities to therapy sessions significantly boosts language skills in kids with speech and language disorders.
Games like bingo make learning fun!
Bingo games give kids lots of chances to practice and reinforce new words, which is key for mastering vocabulary.
Therefore, incorporating this summer bingo game into your speech therapy sessions can make learning engaging, effective, and enjoyable.
Conversely, the game promotes active participation, social interaction, and practical use of vocabulary skills, all of which help improve language development.
Whether you're working with individual students or small groups, this customizable English and Spanish bingo game is a versatile tool to help you reach your educational goals while keeping students motivated and excited about learning.
Which summer words are targeted?
The best part about Canva is that you can customize all of their templates in just minutes! But, to get you started, there are already 32 different cards that include the following words. Here's what's included in these summer bingo activities for speech therapy:
- Bathing suit (traje de baño)
- Beach (playa)
- Beach ball (pelota de playa)
- Beach chair (silla de playa)
- Bucket (cubo)
- Corn on the cob (mazorca de maíz)
- Crab (cangrejo)
- Firefly (luciérnaga)
- Fireworks (fuegos artificiales)
- Fish (pescado)
- Flip flops (chancletas)
- Frisbee (disco volador)
- Ice cream (helado)
- Lemonade (limonada)
- Octopus (pulpo)
- Palm tree (palmera)
- Pineapple (piña)
- Pool (piscina)
- Popsicle (paleta de hielo)
- Sailboat (velero)
- Sandcastle (castillo de arena)
- Sea turtle (tortuga marina)
- Seashell (caracol)
- Shorts (pantalones cortos)
- Starfish (estrella de mar)
- Sun (sol)
- Sun hat (sombrero de sol)
- Sunscreen (protector solar)
- Sunglasses (gafas de sol)
- Surfboard (tabla de surf)
- Suitcases (maletas)
- Watermelon (sandia)
How to Set up the Summer Bingo Activities
You can easily set up this game in 3 steps. Click on the link to access the Canva file and customize it as needed.
- You can change the colors, add graphics, or modify the bingo set as you see fit.
- If you want more information about how to use Canva for Education, then click here!
- Then, download the Canva template as a PDF (get more details about how to do this when you join my email subscriber list).
- Lastly, print out the calling cards on paper or card stock (laminate for durability).
Additionally, bingo games grab students' attention with their fun and competitive nature.
This boost in engagement makes students more eager to participate and excited about learning. When students are engaged in learning, it helps to reinforce new vocabulary words.
For example, a study with second graders found that those who played learning games were more engaged and remembered vocabulary better than those who just did worksheets.
So, make sure you get your free printables today.
How to Play These Summer Bingo Activities
As a speech therapist, you know all the tricks to get your students engaged in the lesson. Here are some more ideas on how to get your students excited to play!
- Introduce the vocabulary before you start playing.
- Luckily, I have just added two Summer flash cards to the Canva template library that are also editable and free. Check them out below!
- Summer Flashcards
- Summer Flashcards (Spanish)
- Read the summer bingo cards to your students, then have them read the clues to their friends.
- You can even have your students use different summer-themed items to cover their bingo squares.
- For example:
- You can also pair this fun activity with an end of year summer word search! I have one available for free in Canva. Make sure you subscribe so you can access the free word search.
Summer Books for Speech Therapy
Before playing this free summer bingo game, you read some of your favorite summer books! These books provide an opportunity for speech therapists to target vocabulary related to summer activities, such as swimming, camping, going to the beach, and exploring nature. Additionally, they can also be used to target other language skills, such as sequencing, inferencing, and storytelling.
Here are just a few:
- Beach Vocabulary Books
- Day at the Beach by Tom Booth
- Pete the Cat: Pete at the Beach by James Dean
- When a Dragon Moves In by Jodi Moore
- There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Shell by Lucille Colandro
- Camping Vocabulary Books
- A Camping Spree with Mr. McGee by Chris Van Dusen
- Maisy Goes Camping by Lucy Cousins
- Froggy Goes to Camp by Jonathan London
- Summer Vocabulary Books
- And Then Comes Summer by Tom Brenner
- Summer Days and Nights by Wong Herbert Yee
- The Night Before Summer Vacation by Natasha Wing
- It Began with Lemonade by Gideon Sterer
If you follow these links, then you'll be taken to a YouTube video for each book with no ads.
Snag These Free Summer Bingo Printable Games Today!
Not only are these summer bingo activities for speech therapy an effective educational tool, but they are also fun and engaging summer games for students to play during summer speech sessions. By incorporating this game into your therapy sessions, you can keep your students motivated and excited about learning, even during the summer months.
Check out these summer fun bingo boards today and get access to the FREE subscriber resource library so you can create a blank bingo card for your students today.
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