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Baby shower bingo

Every card different, in sets sized for any party.

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45 themes, grouped by kind.
24 to 40 from this theme
1 to 120, all different
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Up to 40 characters, printed on every card and on the call list. Leave it empty for the title shown.
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Baby Shower Bingo, card 1

SWADDLEBASSINETMOBILETEETHERSLEEPYDIAPERPOWDERBLOCKSBLANKETROMPERBUNDLEBIBFREECRADLENURSERYTOYSGIGGLECUDDLESTORKWIPESRATTLEBOOTIESCARSEATSOCKSBOTTLE

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Baby Shower Bingo, call list

Check off each word as you call it. 40 words in play.

  1. HAT
  2. CRIB
  3. SHOWER
  4. STORK
  5. RATTLE
  6. DIAPER
  7. BLOCKS
  8. MITTENS
  9. BASSINET
  10. SWADDLE
  11. PACIFIER
  12. TEETHER
  13. HIGHCHAIR
  14. LULLABY
  15. PLAYMAT
  16. BATHTUB
  17. BOUNCER
  18. NAPTIME
  19. MONITOR
  20. SOCKS
  21. BLANKET
  22. CARSEAT
  23. BURPCLOTH
  24. BOTTLE
  25. BIB
  26. CRADLE
  27. NURSERY
  28. CUDDLE
  29. ROMPER
  30. TOYS
  31. ONESIE
  32. MOBILE
  33. BUNDLE
  34. BOOTIES
  35. STROLLER
  36. GIGGLE
  37. WIPES
  38. TEDDY
  39. POWDER
  40. SLEEPY

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Or take a set that is already made

Four sets sized for different groups. Every card within a set is different, and each prints on a page of its own after the call list.

Baby shower bingo printable, small party: 8 cards, 5 by 5Baby shower bingo, small party8 cards · 5 × 5Download PDF ↓Baby shower bingo printable, medium party: 16 cards, 5 by 5Baby shower bingo, medium party16 cards · 5 × 5Download PDF ↓Baby shower bingo printable, large party: 30 cards, 5 by 5Baby shower bingo, large party30 cards · 5 × 5Download PDF ↓Baby shower bingo printable, quick game: 12 cards, 3 by 3Baby shower bingo, quick game12 cards · 3 × 3Download PDF ↓

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Baby shower bingo is the version most people actually enjoy, because it gives everyone something to do during the part of the afternoon where the presents are being opened and there is otherwise nothing to look at. Guests mark off items as they appear.

The ready-made sets use a forty-word list, from BIB and BOTTLE to BASSINET and SWADDLE, in 5 × 5 sets of eight, sixteen and thirty cards, plus twelve 3 × 3 cards for a quicker round. Every card is different, but they all draw on one pool of words, so on the thirty-card set two guests finish on the same call in about one game in six. Agree on a tiebreak before you start.

The version that works best, though, is usually the one you build yourself. Guest first names, the pets, whatever the parents-to-be are known for: a list that means something to the room lands far better than a generic one, and it takes about a minute in the maker below. Keep each entry to one word of three letters or more, since the maker keeps only letters and would print a full name as one run of capitals.

One card fills each sheet, so the squares stay wide enough for the two nine-letter words on the list, BURPCLOTH and HIGHCHAIR, and the edge of the grid is drawn heavier than the lines inside it so it cuts out cleanly. Card stock is worth it if you want them to survive being passed around.

Which baby shower bingo words mean the same thing

No two words on the baby shower bingo list name exactly the same thing, but several are close enough to argue over. The list holds three places for a baby to sleep, CRIB, CRADLE and BASSINET, and two all-in-one outfits, ONESIE and ROMPER, and both TEDDY and BLOCKS are TOYS as well. None of this matters when the host reads from the call list, because each word is called on its own; it matters when guests mark squares from the presents as they are opened.

Settle the overlaps before the first present comes out of its paper. The simplest ruling is that a gift marks every word that fairly describes it, so a set of blocks marks both BLOCKS and TOYS and nobody holding either is left arguing. The stricter ruling, one gift for one word, needs someone to keep track of which word each present has already used. On the quick game, PACIFIER and POWDER are on none of its twelve 3 × 3 cards, so a pacifier or a bottle of powder marks nothing there, and those two words can be crossed off the call list before you start.

Can baby shower bingo be played from the presents alone

Yes, and every card in the three 5 × 5 baby shower sets can still win that way, because each one has at least one line made only of things that arrive in a gift bag. Nine of the forty words are not presents at all: LULLABY, NURSERY, CUDDLE, GIGGLE, NAPTIME, BUNDLE, STORK, SLEEPY and SHOWER. Each 5 × 5 card carries between three and eight of them, so some guests hold more squares that no present will ever fill, and the free center is the only square everyone gets for nothing. The twelve 3 × 3 cards in the quick game each have a line clear of those nine as well.

The catch is the number of presents. A first line on the sixteen-card set needs about 13 different items from the list to have been unwrapped, and about 12 on the thirty-card set, which a small shower may not reach. Keep the call list to hand: once the last present is open, call the remaining words aloud, the nine that are not gifts included, until someone finishes. A cuddle or a giggle that actually happens in the room can count as a call too, provided the host says so before the game starts rather than halfway through it.

Common questions

When in the afternoon does this actually get played?

Baby shower bingo is played while the presents are opened, with guests marking each item as it comes out of its paper, so nobody has to stop the opening to call words. Hand cards and pens around just before the first present; on the eight-card set, the smallest, a first line typically needs about 15 different items from the list to have been unwrapped.

Ready-made set, or should I build my own?

Build your own if the room shares names and jokes worth putting on a card, and use a ready-made set if it does not. A 5 × 5 card needs at least 24 words, and for twenty cards the maker warns about shared squares until the list reaches 36, so pad a homemade list out with ordinary gifts such as BIB and SOCKS or two guests will more often finish on the same call.

How many baby shower bingo cards should I print for twenty guests?

Print the thirty-card set and hand out twenty, or make exactly twenty in the maker on this page; either way every card is different and the call list covers all forty words. Each card prints on a page of its own after the call list, so twenty cards from the maker is twenty-one sheets of paper.

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