Graduation party bingo cards

How to run bingo at a graduation party

The page opens with the graduation party list on 5x5 cards with a free space, 30 cards, 2 to a page: 15 sheets of Letter or A4 paper. Set Cards to your guest count plus a few spares for late arrivals (up to 200). Each card uses 24 of the 54 squares, so every guest holds a different mix, and every card is printed with Card k of 30 · set S along the bottom. Use Start from above the word box to switch to the little graduates list. Before you print, delete what will not happen at your party: no food truck, no lawn, no yearbook. The edited list is kept in this browser.

Put the graduate's name in the free space

With 5x5 and Free space ticked (the default here), a Free space text box sits next to the size buttons. Type something like Congrats, Maya! or Class of 2027 and it prints in the centre square of every card instead of FREE, in the preview, the printout and the PDF. It holds up to 24 characters. You can also change the Card title from GRADUATION BINGO to the graduate's name.

Playing at an open house: mark it as it happens

A grad party is usually an open house where guests come and go over three or four hours, so a called game where everyone sits down at once rarely works. Instead, leave a stack of cards and pens by the guest book and let people mark squares as they see them: the cap toss photo, the tassel moved to the left, a grandparent getting teary, someone asking the grad what's next. Anyone with a full row, column or diagonal drops their card in a bowl by the gift table, and the graduate draws a winner at the end. An honest limit: guests who stay forty minutes will not see much, so a few squares (the photo board, the yard sign, the cake) are things anyone can spot on the way in.

Calling a game for a sit-down party

For a dinner or a backyard party where everyone is there at the same time, press Caller sheet and read one square every 15 to 20 seconds; 54 squares take about 15 minutes to call in full, and the first line usually comes well before that. Print calling cards makes one slip per square, 12 to a page, so the graduate can draw them from their cap. Check a winner by reading their squares back against the caller sheet. Prizes can be small and not money: the first slice of cake, a turn to pick the next song, or the seat next to the grad in the group photo.

Little graduates: preschool and kindergarten

For a preschool or kindergarten graduation, choose the little graduates list (cap falls off, hug for the teacher, nap mat, show and tell), set the size to 4x4 or 3x3, and print 4 per page. Adults at the ceremony can play it with the children, or a teacher can read it at the class party afterwards. For children who cannot read yet, choose Pictures for pre-readers at the top of the form. The word box fills with 36 pictures (graduation cap, certificate, rosette, crayon, backpack, bus, teddy bear and more), the cards switch to 3x3 without a free space, and every square becomes a black line drawing with its word underneath. Go through the picture caller sheet once before you play, because a few drawings need a name the first time: the graduation cap is the flat square cap drawn from the side, rosette is a round badge with two ribbons, school bell is a round bell with a striker, the kind fixed to a corridor wall, globe is a round world with lines, and ABC is just the three letters. The on-screen caller has a Graduation picture-set button that shows each call large on a classroom screen.

Printing

Two per page keeps 5x5 squares such as "Photo board of school years" readable; choose 4 per page only for 3x3 or 4x4 cards. Press Print cards with margins at Default and scale at 100%, or Download PDF to print from a phone or at a print shop; in picture mode the drawings are in the PDF too, and they print black on white, so a finished card can go home as a colouring sheet. Everything is made in your browser: nothing you type is uploaded, and there is no sign-up or watermark. For a birthday the same summer, the birthday party bingo page has a kids' list with its own pictures.