Christmas music bingo

What’s included

• 8 different bingo cards, two to a page with a cut line
• 36 words mixed across the cards, with a free middle square
• A name line on every card
• 4 A4 pages, designed to print well in colour or black and white

How to play

1. Make a playlist of the 36 songs listed in the tips below and shuffle it.
2. Print the PDF and cut each page in half, so everyone has a different card.
3. Play 15 to 20 seconds of each song. Players cross off any song they recognise on their card.
4. First to complete a line shouts ‘Jingle!’; check their card against the songs played. Keep going for a full house.

Tips

• Keep a list of the songs played, so you can check winners’ cards.
• Sing along to the chorus before playing the next song: it’s half the fun.
• Use full song titles in your playlist; the cards use short names to fit.
• The songs on the cards: Silent Night, Away in a Manger, Joy to the World, Deck the Halls, The First Nowell, O Holy Night, Jingle Bells, We Three Kings of Orient Are, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Ding Dong Merrily on High, In the Bleak Midwinter, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Good King Wenceslas, The Holly and the Ivy, Little Donkey, Mary’s Boy Child, Last Christmas, Fairytale of New York, Merry Xmas Everybody, Let It Snow, Sleigh Ride, White Christmas, Winter Wonderland, Jingle Bell Rock, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, Walking in the Air, Driving Home for Christmas, Step into Christmas, Stop the Cavalry, Santa Baby, Feliz Navidad, Wonderful Christmastime, Do They Know It’s Christmas?, Mistletoe and Wine and Stay Another Day.

Printing tips

• Print at 100% or “Actual size” rather than “Fit to page”, so nothing gets trimmed.
• Everything is A4. If your printer only takes US Letter, choose “Fit to page” instead.
• Thicker paper (120–160gsm) feels nicer to write on and survives a night out; plain 80gsm is fine too.
• Black and white works: the designs are made to stay clear without colour.