This adorable Printable Valentine Bingo Game for kids is a wonderful idea for a Valentine’s Day party, family game night, or those mini-classroom parties. Bingo is always a hit in my house and we love changing it up. The free printable includes the cutest clipart and is a great way to expand your child’s vocabulary through gameplay.
If your kids love bingo or you want to introduce them to the game, check out these free printable bingo cards for kids.
Educational Benefits of Bingo
Far beyond its reputation as a game of chance for seniors, traditional bingo is a versatile and enjoyable activity for kids too! Here are some benefits:
- Games like bingo help children, particularly kindergarten students, learn new skills such as color recognition, counting, hand-eye coordination, rule-following, and discipline.
- Children learn to use their hands to complete tasks, which improves their decision-making skills. Bingo is a simple approach to promote brain growth in children.
- Playing bingo in the classroom or at home might encourage children to learn new skills. According to a recent study, when teachers organize bingo games in the classroom regularly, students stay engaged, pay more attention in class, and participate in all curricular and extracurricular activities. Bingo can be utilized as an effective classroom management strategy to motivate students.
Here are more Positive Impacts of Teaching Children how to Play Bingo.
Free Printables: Valentine Bingo
This Valentine’s bingo pack includes 2 sets of bingo game boards and cards.
The original version includes 4 different game boards with 9 images each, and is suitable for smaller groups. To make it a bit more gender-neutral, two different colored mats are included. One is full of pink and purple, while the other has a variety of pastel colors with the dominant colors being blue and green.
New Updated Set
We updated this printable to now include 10 Valentine’s Day Bingo game boards with 25 images each.
Choose the bingo game that best suits your child’s age level and group. Both versions are included in the free PDF.
Materials Required:
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- Cardstock
- The free printable Valentine bingo cards (You can find your pdf at the bottom of this post.)
- Bingo Chips or heart shapes (You could also use buttons, mini erasers, pom poms, candy, paper clips, or literally anything you have at home that could work.) Conversation hearts make the best manipulatives for Valentine’s Day.
- Laminator with pouches.
- Bingo Markers (these are an alternative)
- Printer
You can find all our suggested supplies for our activities pack here.
Instructions:
- Simply get your free printable Valentine’s Bingo game and print onto card stock paper.
- Cut out the calling cards and laminate them if you wish. This will protect it from messy fingers, tears, and bends.
- Add all the calling cards to a bowl or packet.
How to Play Valentine’s Day Bingo
Kids will love identifying Valentine’s Day themed flowers, hearts, cupids, and even a bow and arrow.
If you are hosting a fun Valentine’s games day or valentine party, place Hershey’s Kisses or love hearts in a bowl and use it as the bingo markers.
- Give a different bingo card to each child. This will add excitement to the game.
- Explain the basic rules of bingo to the kids. Let them know that the goal is to be the first to complete a row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) on their bingo card by marking off called-out numbers.
- Give each player a handful of bingo chips, heart shapes, or other manipulatives.
- Put the cards together face down. The caller should randomly pick a card and announce it to the group. Whichever player has that piece on their Bingo Mat can place a marker on it. For example, If the card you turn around is Cupid, then everyone with the image of Cupid will place their heart bingo chip on that spot.
- The first child to complete a row (horizontal, diagonal and vertical) and shout “Bingo!” is the winner. Celebrate their victory and then, if you’d like, reset the game for another round.
- To extend the game, the winner can be the first to fill out their whole card. That is how we played it.
Here are more ideas on How to Make Bingo More Fun.
I love that this Bingo game is for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and older kids. It can be enjoyed by such a huge variety of ages.
When to Play:
A game of Bingo is a lifesaver. It is the secret to curing boredom and also helping the kids work on identification skills! Here are some ideas on when to pull out your free printable Valentine’s Bingo game:
- At a Valentine’s party.
- If you’re entertaining groups of kids.
- Family Game Night.
- Class parties. It doesn’t even have to be during February!
- Calm Down Time – a fun activity will help the kids relax before getting back to work.
- While running errands – I always print extras and keep them in the car.
Where to get this printable
GET THE VALENTINE’S DAY BINGO CARDS HERE
More Valentine’s Activities
- Free Valentine Color by Number Worksheets
- We love this open ended Do a Dot Art Printable Heart Activity. Print it out ahead of time, and when your child is bored or needs something to do, then you have a simple solution.
- Create a Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin.
- Toddlers will love this fine motor heart activity.
- Paper Flowers Bouquet and handprint Valentine’s Craft
GET THE VALENTINE’S BINGO CLASSROOM PACK
GET THE VALENTINE’S BINGO CLASSROOM PACK HERE
WHERE TO GET THE VALENTINES ACTIVITY PACK
THIS IS THE VALENTINE ACTIVITY PACK FROM OUR SHOP
GET THE BINGO PACK FOR SMALL GROUPS
WHERE TO GET THE VALENTINE BINGO GAME+ SMALL GROUP VARIETY PACK
WHERE TO GET THE BINGO CLASSROOM SET
WHERE TO GET THE BINGO CLASSROOM SET
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