Blank bingo cards

A blank bingo card is the right card when the players should do the writing. Copying words from the board onto a card is spelling practice before the game has started, and because each player decides where every word goes, a whole class gets cards of its own from a single template. The same blank card takes numbers for a math game, pictures for children who are not reading yet, or stickers.

There are four templates: a 5 × 5 with a free space in the middle, a 5 × 5 without one, a 4 × 4, and a 3 × 3 for young children. Each is a three-page PDF. The first page is one card across the whole sheet, with squares of about 1.4 inches on the 5 × 5, 1.8 on the 4 × 4 and 2.4 on the 3 × 3. The second fits two cards on a page with a dashed line to cut along, which halves the paper for a class. The third is a call list of numbered lines, each with a box, for writing down the words in play and checking them off as they are called.

Every card is headed with the word bingo in bold capitals. On the 5 × 5 each letter sits over its own column, as on a card for number bingo; the 4 × 4 and 3 × 3 have fewer columns than the word has letters, so there it runs across the top as a title. A line for the player’s name sits above the header, and the outer edge is drawn heavier than the lines inside it, so it reads as the line to cut along.

If you would rather the squares came filled, the maker on this page deals cards from a theme or from your own list, every card different, with the call list printed first. It also makes find someone who cards, with a line under each prompt for a name. Anything typed into it stays in your browser.