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Play Valentine's Day Bingo

Posted in: Valentine's Day
Feb 27, 2007 - 2:53:13 AM
Author Jan K., The Proofer
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This is an easy game and can be enjoyed by kids and adults alike! Everything you need is provided, all you have to do is print the bingo game cards and the bingo call cards!

You'll Need:

  • Valentine Bingo Cards*

  • Valentine Bingo Call Cards*

  • Colored markers (colored pencils, or regular pencils)

  • A plastic bowl, bag, or small box to use to hold the Call Cards

  • A few "Valentine Bingo!" prizes

*Valentine Bingo Cards and Valentine Bingo Call Cards are free printables.  The links are shown below. Each opens in a new window for your convenience. A zip file with all the cards in it is also available to make downloading faster and easier.

The Bingo Cards will print on plain computer paper (white is best). Print one  SAMPLE card, and then print as many BLANK cards as you will need, at least one for each guest. Print more than you need so that you can play several games---until everyone is a winner!

The Bingo Call Cards are to be printed on plain white business cards (10 business cards to one sheet [standard], should be compatible with "Avery 8371" business cards, although any business card should work), available at office supply stores like Office Depot, or stores like Target, Wal*Mart, and Kmart). It is simple to print on business cards. Just put the blank business cards into your printer's paper tray and print the Call Cards as you would any other document. You should not have to change any of your printer's settings.

The Valentine Bingo Cards and Call Cards open as Word documents. Due to the number of graphics on each page, the files may take several long seconds to open. Each card is listed below, but I suggest that you download the zip file that contains all of them.

Here are the links to the Valentine Bingo Cards and Call Cards

This package of cards is also available as a zip file. The zip file will download quicker. Go to:

Prepare Bingo Cards

Print the Bingo Cards and prepare for the game ahead of time. This will take approximately 30 minutes.

Separate the Bingo Call Cards. The business cards are already perforated, and if you bend each perforation line, up and down, a few times before you separate the cards, the cards will tear away a little easier. You should end up with a total of 50 individual cards, 10 individual cards for each Bingo Call Card. For the moment, keep all 10 individual cards for each Bingo Call Card together (that is, do not mix the 50 individual cards at this point).

Look at the Bingo Card Sample. In the row across the top, you'll see HEART, CANDY, CUPID, ROSE, and ARROW (with corresponding pictures). In each row under the pictures, there are numbers. Note that in each separate column, the numbers do no repeat (that is, in the HEART column, no number is repeated, and so on for the remaining four columns). Using the sample as a guide, you will now make the bingo cards for the game.

  • Place a blank bingo card in front of you.

  • Put the 10 HEART Call Cards in a dish and mix them up. Pull out a card. Whatever number is on that card, put that number in the box in the first row under HEART

  • Pull another card. Put that number in the box in the second row under HEART

  • Do this three more times. You now have 5 different numbers in the HEART column.

  • Put those five cards back into the bowl. Take the next blank bingo card.

  • Pull 5 cards, one at a time, and mark those numbers in the five rows in the HEART column.

  • Continue until you have done all the blank cards for the HEART column. Set the HEART call cards aside.

Using the HEART call cards, fill in the rows in the HEART column. Continue until you have finished all of the blank cards for the HEART column. Set HEART cards aside.

Continue in this manner for CANDY, CUPID, ROSE, and ARROW. [Note that in the CUPID column there is a "FREE" space. Do not put a number in this box.]

You should make one bingo card for as many guests as you are expecting to come to the Valentine shower. Each card will be unique (the laws of probability suggest that none of the columns of numbers for each of the pictures is the same). If you need 10 cards to play the game, then make 2  or more sets of copies of the original 10 cards. Use one set of copies for the first round of play, the second set for the second round of play, etc.

How To Play Valentine Bingo

The instructions for playing bingo are very simple.

  • Put all 50 of the Valentine Bingo Call Cards into a bowl (bag or box). Shake the bowl a little to mix up the cards.

  • Give each guest a Valentine Bingo Card and a colored marker (colored pencil or regular pencil).

  • Draw a Call Card from the bowl. Read the word that tells what the picture is and the number on the card, and then show the card to the players. Set that call card aside (do not put it back into the bowl).

  • Each player will look at his/her Valentine Bingo Card to find that picture in the row across the top and down that picture's column for the number called. If the number is there, then he/she will color in that square.

The object of the game is for one player to fill in:

  • the whole column for one picture (that is, color in all the boxes for the 5 numbers under one of the pictures), or

  • fill in one row going across (that is, fill 1 number for each picture, going across that same row), or

  • fill in the numbers so that either diagonal is completed (that is, the first number in the first row, the second number in the second row, THIRD SPACE/THIRD ROW IS FREE and is considered filled, fourth number in the fourth row, fifth number in the fifth row).

Using the Bingo Card Sample, an example of a winning card would be one of these four:

  • HEART 3,1,7,8,4

  • HEART 1, CANDY 5, CUPID 3, ROSE 8, ARROW 4

  • HEART 3, CANDY 5, FREE, ROSE 6, ARROW 7

  • ARROW 9, ROSE 8, FREE, CANDY 3, HEART 4

Remember, every player automatically gets the FREE space to use for any winning combination.

When a player fills in a whole column (any one of the five columns), a whole row (any one of the five rows), or either diagonal, he/she should shout "BINGO!"*

Have Valentine Bingo Prizes Handy!

You can use Hershey's Kisses or little boxes of candy hearts with the sayings on them for prizes...just be sure to have plenty of Hershey's Kisses---everyone will want some!

To see these Valentine Bingo cards and for more Valentine's Day Card crafts, please go to:

http://readingroom.janktheproofer.com/valentinecrafts.htm

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