Thanksgiving Bingo

Love bingo? Cant go to the bingo hall because youre getting everything ready for Thanksgiving? Dont stop playing just because its a holiday. Make a Thanksgiving bingo set and you, your friends, or just the kids, can play for fun or prizes. You can make a simplistic version of the game, or spend a bit more time, and create a bingo set thats much more detailed.Use card stock or even thin cardboard to make the bingo cards. Write "TURKEY", "GOBBLE", or another word across the top of the card. Although "BINGO" has five letters, you can choose a word with five to six letters, ideally. Just write the word across the top of each card stock piece - one card for each player - and spread the letters apart.Draw squares on the card stock under each letter of the chosen word. If the word has five letters, make five squares under each letter. If the word has six letters, make six squares under each letter. The squares should be about two inches each.The card stock can quickly have a Thanksgiving theme when you attach paper or card stock details to it. Glue on small pumpkins, turkeys, leaves, or other accents, at the top corners, or across the top, above the chosen word.On each square, write something thats related to Thanksgiving and/or the fall season. You can write single words or short phases. Some suggestions include "Thanksgiving", "turkey", "dressing", "pie", "family", "friends", "leaves", "acorns" or "pumpkins". For each word you write on a card, write it again on a square of paper.Make each card different by adding some words to some cards, eliminating some words from other cards, and shuffling the order in which you write the words on the cards.When Thanksgiving rolls around, craft stores are full of small trinkets, which work well for making bingo markers. Buy tiny pumpkins, turkeys, or other shapes, and use them to cover words as they are called. Or, just purchase tiny card stock shapes as the markers. The shapes are sold by the bag and are not expensive.Put all of the word or phrase cards in a hat, bowl, or other such thing, and have someone pull and call the words. As each word is called, that card is set to the side to later verify a winner. Players cover the called words on their cards to try to get a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal row covered. The first person to do so calls "bingo" and is the winner. You wont want to stop there, though; play another round of Thanksgiving bingo - its a lot of fun for kids or adults.Thanksgiving Bingo