Free printable Hanukkah bingo cards — picture bingo generator

How to make your Hanukkah bingo cards

1. Set the number of cards, from 1 to 40 — one per child in the class or guest at the party.
2. Choose how many cards go on a page: 1 (large pictures for preschoolers and grandparents), 2 or 4 (saves paper and ink).
3. Pick the paper: US Letter in the US and Canada, A4 in Israel, the UK and Europe.
4. Pick the card language: English, Hebrew, Spanish or Russian. Hebrew names are a nice touch for Hebrew school.
5. Leave “Caller cards” on: you get a checklist of all 32 pictures and cut-out calling cards.
6. 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.

Every set has a short code printed on each card, and the page address remembers it with your settings. Bookmark the link to reprint exactly the same cards later. 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 Hanukkah deck has 32 of our own cards: the hanukkiah, the dreidel, the sufganiyah, latkes, the shamash, the jug of oil, gelt, chocolate coins, the olive, the flame, the miracle, the Maccabee, Judah Maccabee, Mattathias, the Temple, the rededication, the elephant, King Antiochus, the blessing, Maoz Tzur, the gift, the window, the eight nights, cheese, applesauce, jam, nuts, the month of Kislev, the Star of David, the family, the school break and the light.

Each card uses 16 of the 32 pictures and no two cards in a set are the same, so every round has one clear winner. We drew the dreidel and the sufganiyah ourselves; the rest are simple emoji-style pictures. Everything is family-friendly and fits a classroom.

How to play

1. Give each player a card and some markers: chocolate gelt, nuts, buttons or pennies.
2. The caller shuffles the calling cards and draws one at a time, reading the name out loud — or a clue instead: “The helper candle that lights all the others”.
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 makes the longest rounds; with young children play one row, one column or the four corners. For Hebrew school, call each card by its Hebrew name and let the class answer in English — the round doubles as vocabulary practice and a review of the Hanukkah story.

Play Hanukkah bingo online

Grandparents in another city, or a class meeting on video? Press Play it online: a room opens with the Hanukkah deck already selected. Send the link and everyone gets a random card on their phone or laptop — up to 40 players, no accounts, no downloads. The game calls the pictures automatically, each with a short line, and checks the winner. Choose “I call, not play” to run it yourself with pause, repeat and next-card buttons; the Big Screen view shows the called cards on a TV or projector.

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

• More ideas for the eight nights: Hanukkah games online for adults and families.
• Office party on a call: virtual holiday party games for remote teams.
• A mixed-holiday party? Print Christmas bingo cards too.
• All decks are in the printable Lotería generator.

🕎 Play Hanukkah bingo online