Best Winter Bingo Free Printable Games for Kids
I’ve got 7 winter bingo cards free printable games for this winter season in this blog post! Keep reading below to get all the details to make your students smile on those cold winter days.
Bingo is a classic game that is fun and easy to learn, and it's a great way to target language skills while having some friendly competition.
Winter Bingo Games
Here are the winter bingo boards that will be included in this set:
- Christmas bingo
- Winter Bingo free printable
- Valentine's Day bingo
- Valentine's Day bingo (for large groups – paid product)
- St. Patrick's Day bingo (color)
- St. Patrick's Day Bingo (b&w)
- Needs and Wants Bingo (blog post with lots of freebies)
Bingo games can help young children develop several important skills, including:
Vocabulary Development:
Each holiday-themed Bingo game introduces specific vocabulary related to: Christmas, Winter, St. Patrick's Day, and Valentine's Day.
This helps in expanding a child's vocabulary, especially with seasonal words.
Turn Taking
Bingo teaches kids how to take turns. Each player has to wait for their turn to mark their board, which is an important part of social interaction and cooperative play.
Being a good sport
It's important to learn how to handle winning and losing. You can use the game to discuss and model appropriate reactions to both, like saying “Good game!” or congratulating the winner.
Emotional Regulation:
Bingo is a safe place for kids to experience the feelings that come with winning and losing. You can use these moments to teach them strategies for managing disappointment or excitement, like deep breathing or positive self-talk.
Categorization Skills:
Organizing the Bingo boards by winter holidays helps kids categorize words by themes.
Phonological Awareness:
By focusing on the beginning sounds, rhymes, or syllables of the words, you can add phonological awareness tasks to the game.
Following Rules
Following game rules is a key social skill. Bingo has simple rules that make it a great game for teaching the importance of following rules.
Customizable
Your winter bingo game can be easily modified to suit different skill levels or target specific therapy goals. For example, you can use pictures for younger children or more complex language tasks for older ones.
Listening Comprehension:
This is a fun-packed riddle game!
The calling cards have questions that kids have to listen to carefully, understand, and then answer.
For example, if you ask a question like “What do we wear on our hands in the winter to keep them warm?”, the child has to listen carefully, process the information, and understand the question.
This improves their listening comprehension skills.
This is so important for effective communication and academic success.
Before going on winter break, check out these winter bingo games!
Free Printable Winter Bingo Cards for Large Groups
These bingo boards are meant for small groups of 5 or 6 children. However, you can easily create more bingo boards in Canva!
If you need a Valentine's Day bingo for large groups, then check out this product on TPT.
Better yet, have your students create their bingo boards by cutting and pasting the bingo images into the bingo board, like with this St. Patrick's Day Bingo game.
How Can I Print Bingo Cards for Free?
To access these winter free printable bingo cards, all you need is a free Canva for Education account (find out how to get your free account here!)
The good news is that many free bingo games are available online when you use Canva. I have included 7 winter related bingo games in this blog post for you.
Choose a bingo activity card template. Here are some of my favorite bingo boards to use:
- Christmas bingo
- Winter bingo free printable
- Valentine's Day bingo
- Valentine's Day bingo (for large groups)
- St. Patrick's Day bingo (color)
- St. Patrick's Day Bingo (b&w)
- Needs and Wants Bingo
Customize the template.
Once you've got the template you like, you can customize it to suit your needs (or just print as is!). You can change the colors, fonts, and images on the template.
Print the bingo game cards
Once you've customized the template, you can print the bingo cards.
Can I Play Bingo for Free?
Yes! You definitely can with a free Canva for Education account.
After you have downloaded the free bingo cards, here’s how to set it up:
First, you'll need the following:
- A color printer
- A bingo caller (it could be you or a student!)
- A set of bingo cards (one for each player)
- Printed calling cards
- Bingo markers, bingo daubers, dot markers, or bingo chips
- You can also use mini marshmallows or erasers as game pieces.
To make the game more fun, you can put all the calling cards in a holiday-themed container (like a Christmas hat).
This will make it more exciting to draw a card.
You can also add some extra rules, like having them sing a song if you draw a certain card.
This will make the game more interactive and fun for everyone.
How to Play Winter Bingo
To set up the game, the caller will randomly select a calling card and read out the question. The question will be about a specific holiday, such as Christmas or Valentine’s Day. Your students will then race to find the answer on their winter bingo boards.
Players will mark off the pictures on their bingo cards as they're called. The first person to get five numbers in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) wins the game.
Here are some tips for playing these winter bingo games:
- Place the free printable winter bingo boards into sheet protectors.
- Then, use a dry erase marker to mark off pictures on the bingo card. This will make it easier to erase the numbers if you need to.
- Laminate the winter bingo boards and have the students use dry erase markers to mark off the pictures.
These are just a few ideas to get you started. You can be as creative as you want with your winter bingo game. Have fun and enjoy the winter season!
Who Can Use These Winter Bingo Free Printable Games
Anyone can use these bingo boards! If you’re a teacher, special educator, speech pathologist or parent, you can use these bingo boards to work on increasing a child’s vocabulary.
If you’re a speech pathologist, here are some ways you can use the winter bingo games in speech therapy:
Individual therapy
Use the game to target specific speech and language goals. For example, you could use the game to work on vocabulary development, word recognition, or auditory processing.
Small group therapy
Use the game to promote social interaction and cooperation. Players must work together to listen to the caller and mark off their bingo cards correctly.
Push-in therapy
Use the game as a warm-up activity or as a way to review material that has been covered in previous sessions. You can even play this game with the entire class if you’re pushing into a classroom.
Winter Bingo Ideas
If you want to create your own winter bingo boards and calling cards, check out these fun ideas for other bingo game boards you can create:
Animals of the Winter Woods Bingo
This bingo game is a great way to learn about the animals that live in the winter woods. Use images or words of animals like deer, owls, bears, and foxes for the squares on your bingo card. You could also include some fun facts about each animal on the card.
Fun Winter Activities Bingo
This bingo game is a great way to get kids up and moving. Use images or words of any fun kids winter activity, like skiing, ice skating, sledding, or building a snowman for the squares on your bingo card. When a player gets a bingo, they have to do the activity that corresponds to the square. For example, you could write:
Winter Clothing Bingo
This bingo game is a great way to learn about different types of winter clothing. Use images or words of winter clothing items like hats, gloves, scarves, coats, and boots for the squares on your bingo card.
Winter Foods Bingo:
This bingo game is a great way to learn about different types of winter foods. Use images or words of winter foods like hot chocolate, apple cider, gingerbread, and snowmen for the squares on your bingo card.
Winter Traditions Bingo:
This bingo game is a great way to learn about different winter traditions. Use images or words of winter traditions like Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New Year's Eve for the squares on your bingo card.
These are just a few ideas to get you started. You can be as creative as you want with your winter bingo free printable game. Have fun and enjoy the winter season! Please note that these bingo boards are for personal use only.
Christmas Speech Therapy Bingo
This Christmas bingo is a fun and engaging way to practice speech and language skills.
The game includes 6 different cards and 32 calling cards, each with a different Christmas-themed picture.
Every card has a free space, but you can add an extra Christmas vocabulary word here if you want.
Here are 32 Christmas cards words included in this Christmas bingo game:
- bell
- candy cane
- card
- carolers
- chimney
- Christmas lights
- Christmas tree
- cookies
- elf
- family
- fireplace
- garland
- gingerbread man
- hot chocolate
- mitten
- mistletoe
- North Pole
- nutcracker
- ornament
- poinsettia
- present
- reindeer
- Santa
- Santa's sack
- Santa's hat
- snowflake
- snowglobe
- sleigh
- stocking
- toys
- ugly sweater
- wreath
Winter Speech Therapy Bingo
Winter Speech Therapy Bingo is a seasonal variation of the classic game of bingo. The game includes 5 bingo cards and xx calling cards.
These 32 words are included in this game:
- Antarctica
- basketball
- blanket
- cabin
- coat
- cough
- earmuffs
- evergreen tree
- fireplace
- goggles
- hat
- hot chocolate
- iceberg
- ice hockey
- ice skate
- mittens
- North Pole
- penguin
- polar bear
- reindeer
- scarf
- sledding
- skis
- snowboard
- snowflake
- snowman
- socks
- soup
- sweater
- thermometer
- walrus
Valentine's Day Speech Therapy Bingo
Valentine's Day Speech Therapy Bingo is so much fun and an engaging way to practice speech and language skills in therapy and classrooms.
The 16 words included in this fun game include:
- balloon
- bouquet
- bow
- box of chocolates
- candy hearts
- cupcake
- dove
- envelope
- family
- forget-me-not
- friends
- heart
- locket
- rose
- teddy bear
- Valentine's Day card
This fun game can be used with various age groups, from preschool to elementary school.
If you need a version of Valentine's Day bingo for larger groups, you can check out this resource in TPT.
It includes Google Slides, PDF, and a presentation that you can easily adapt for classroom use.
St. Patrick's Day Bingo
St. Patrick's Day Speech Therapy Bingo is a unique and engaging way to practice speech and language skills.
Here are the words that are included in this St. Patrick's Day bingo set:
- bagpipes
- four-leaf clover
- derby hat
- gold coin
- harp
- horseshoe
- Ireland
- Irish flag
- Irish jig
- kilt
- leprechaun shoe
- rainbow
- potato
- pot of gold
- shamrock
- St. Patrick
If you want a black and white version of St. Patrick's Day bingo, check out this editable bingo board in Canva!
Students can cut and paste the images into the game board before playing.
The game features a variety of St. Patrick's Day-themed pictures, including leprechauns, rainbows, and pots of gold.
You can modify this template if you're working with younger or older children.
For older children, you can use word-based bingo cards to challenge their reading and listening skills.
Grab This Fun Bingo Game Set Today!
These winter bingo free printables are great for improving vocabulary, listening comprehension skills, and social skills in a fun way.
Grab these free, editable resources available on Canva for Education that you can use to create your own bingo games:
- Christmas bingo
- Winter bingo
- Valentine's Day bingo
- Valentine's Day bingo (for large groups)
- St. Patrick's Day bingo (color)
- St. Patrick's Day Bingo (b&w)
- Needs and Wants Bingo (blog post with lots of freebies)
Feel free to download them to play a good game of bingo with your students in the winter time. I'd love to hear how you use these bingo sets, so please share your thoughts in the comments below.
If you have any additional ideas for bingo sets, I'd love to hear those too!
Winter Speech Therapy Activities
If you are looking for more free winter speech therapy activities, check out the resources included in this blog post “Free Themed Winter Speech Therapy Activities for Canva“. You will find ten fun and engaging activities you can easily edit and customize in Canva!
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