Free printable Christmas bingo cards — picture bingo generator

How to make your Christmas bingo cards

1. Set the number of cards, from 1 to 40 — one per guest, student or coworker.
2. Choose how many cards go on a page: 1 (large pictures for little kids and grandparents), 2 or 4 (saves paper and ink).
3. Pick the paper: US Letter in the US and Canada, A4 almost everywhere else.
4. Leave “Caller cards” on: you get a checklist of all 36 pictures and cut-out calling cards, 16 to a page.
5. Press Print / PDF. In the print dialog choose your printer or “Save as PDF”, keep the scale at 100% and turn off browser headers and footers.

Each set has a short code printed on every card, and the page address remembers it together with your settings. Bookmark the link and you can reprint exactly the same cards when one goes missing. Press New set for fresh ones.

What is on the cards

This is picture bingo: the squares show pictures with their names, not numbers. The Christmas deck has 36 of our own cards: Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, the elf, the reindeer, the sleigh, the Christmas tree, the star, the present, the stocking, the candy cane, the gingerbread man, the snowman, the snowflake, the bell, the candle, the angel, the carol, the scarf, the mittens, hot cocoa, the glass of milk, the fireplace, the Christmas lights, the ornament, the mistletoe, the roast turkey, the Three Kings, the camel, the letter to Santa, the teddy bear, the toy train, chestnuts, nougat, the nativity scene, Christmas Eve and the advent calendar.

Every card uses 16 of the 36 pictures, and no two cards in a set have the same combination, so a round has one clear winner. The pictures are simple emoji-style images — nothing to download, no watermark, family-friendly from the first card to the last.

How to play

1. Hand out one card per player and a handful of markers: candy, buttons, coins or dry beans.
2. The caller shuffles the calling cards and draws one at a time, reading the name out loud — or giving a clue instead: “He has a very shiny nose”.
3. Players who have that picture cover it.
4. First to cover the agreed pattern shouts “Bingo!” and the caller checks the card against the checklist.

Agree on the pattern first. A full card gives the longest rounds. With small children play one row, one column or the four corners so a round takes five minutes. A small prize per round — a candy cane works — keeps everyone at the table.

Virtual Christmas bingo for work, class or family

Team spread across cities, or half the family on a video call? Press Play it online: a room opens with the Christmas deck already selected. Send the link, and everybody gets their own random card on a phone or laptop — up to 40 players, no accounts, no downloads. The game calls the pictures automatically, each with a short rhyme, and checks the winner. Pick “I call, not play” in the lobby to run it yourself with pause, repeat and next-card buttons; the Big Screen view puts the called cards on a shared screen or TV.

The online game is our Lotería — the Mexican picture-bingo — so the win button says ¡LOTERÍA!. The rules are the same: cover your whole card first.

More for the holidays

• A Mexican Christmas with a piñata, tamales and ponche? The Navidad deck in the deck menu above has 37 posada cards — ideas in Christmas Lotería for posadas.
• Celebrating Hanukkah too? Print Hanukkah bingo cards with the menorah, the dreidel and sufganiyot.
• All decks and bilingual Spanish–English cards live in the printable Lotería generator.
• Need more games for the evening? See Christmas and New Year’s Eve party games on phones.

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