Camping Bingo Game Printable
Feb 18, 2017 - Help the kids have more fun during your next camping trip. This free printable camping bingo game is a blast! Even adults will love playing. Print out a bingo card for each player along with one set of calling cards. Cut out the calling cards and place the cards into a bowl or a hat. Pull one card at a time from the hat/bowl and describe the image to the players before showing them the card. Download or create custom printable camping bingo cards. The printable PDF file will include a calling sheet with all the words and random bingo cards. Recommended: Check out more Custom DIY Bingo Cards in many new themes and styles and for different occassions. Fun Printable Camping Bingo for Kids. Our free Free Printable Camping Bingo is a fun game to play on your next camping trip or as a summer bonding experience where you are doing fun camping activities at home. Print our Free Printable Camping Bingo for your next camping trip or family game night. We’ve included 10 printable bingo cards as. Download or create custom printable camping bingo cards. The printable PDF file will include a calling sheet with all the words and random bingo cards. Recommended: Check out more Custom DIY Bingo Cards in many new themes and styles and for different occassions.
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Get out to explore nature and play a fun game of Bingo!
Have you ever noticed that everything is more fun when you have competition or a game involved? Whether it’s playing sports, having a read-a-thon or even something as small as going on a walk, it’s always fun to make a game out of whatever you’re doing. Especially with young kids. My 4 year old got a new tablet for his birthday and ever since he prefers playing games or watching YouTube videos over anything else. Because of that I’ve started to come up with fun activities to get us out of the house.
Last year I made each of my boys a Color Scavenger Hunt Kit and I let them build their own again this year. Sadly it hasn’t kept their attention as long as it did last year. So I started brainstorming other fun outdoor games or activities we could do. Before my mother in law passed away we loved playing Stargo, a constellation version of Bingo, with her. Several times a week we would go over and together as a family we would learn about the stars and play bingo. She would always have a special treat for the kids (and mom and dad) after the game too; which made it even more fun!
So to keep her memory alive I made up my own Bingo game; Nature Bingo. It’s super easy to play all you need is:
Nature Bingo Cards (print your copies here)
Somewhere outside to walk (backyard, park, mountains, etc.)
Your family (because everything is better together right?!)
Reward or treat at the end (I chose ice cream sundaes)
One night after dinner I surprised my boys with their bingo cards and told them we were going on an adventure. We were playing bingo just like we used to with Grandma the only difference is we had to find the pictures outside. I also told them after all of us got Bingo we would come home and have a special treat.
Next we walked around our community and started crossing off things we found. My boys felt they needed to color the whole square in which worked too. After Rohrl, my oldest, got bingo I had him help his younger brother get bingo too.
Then we came home and I brought all the ingredients for an ice cream sundae out to the porch. I love using the Ibotta app to earn cash back on groceries and when I saw Smucker’s Ice Cream Toppings were one of the rebates I knew that sundaes would be the perfect prize for Nature Bingo! So when I was at Walmart buying groceries I picked up some Blue Bunny® Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream, Smucker’s Magic Shell Chocolate Topping, Microwaveable Hot Fudge and Caramel Flavored Sundae Syrup. Ice cream is good but it’s always better when there are yummy toppings involved and I love making homemade sundaes because it’s so much more affordable than going out to get it (and a whole lot easier with little ones too). You should have seen their eyes light up when I brought everything outside! The only thing that could have been better was if Grandma was here to enjoy it with us.
What fun plans do you have this summer for getting your kids out into nature? If you’re having trouble getting your kids away from their electronics, ice cream sundaes are always a good motivator. And don’t forget you can earn cash back on Smucker’s Ice Cream Toppings with free Ibotta app!
The summer season allows for so many fun themes that really resonate with preschoolers. Water parks, ice cream, deserts, and of course ocean themes. But one of our favorite preschool themes is camping, and I always like to introduce our summer fun with something extra fun like a printable bingo game. And this one is a camping preschool printable bingo game.
This post includes a free printable, so be sure to grab if from the end of this post.
Free Bingo Game – Camping Preschool Printable
I happen to live in the state with the largest contiguous wilderness area in the lower forty-eight. I know this because thirteen years ago my husband of then only five months and I and went camping in Frank Church Wilderness area where at every trailhead we were reminded of how remote this area can be, and signed in at each checkpoint.
We were avid mountain bikers then, you know…before kids… and biked among the pencil-thin pines into a hot spring only accessible by foot. (Or mountain bikes).
This trail was not the faint of heart, and honestly, we were a little outside our element. We lost the trail completely on several occasions, had to portage our bikes across the Salmon River multiple times, hiked through deep mud (again carrying our bikes), and traversed alongside the steep sides of the mountain as we rode to the promising hot springs.
It was a 17 mile mountain bike ride that took us all morning and part of the afternoon.
Partially because the ride was long, arduous, and we were a little over confident in our mountain biking skills, but also because I crashed my bike, 14 miles in when the trail teetered on the edge of the mountain and just the right rock in the trail sent me cascading down the mountainside.
About 50 feet down the side of the mountain I finally caught myself with my elbow, causing it to jamb into my shoulder, chipping away a chunk of bone while tearing my rotator cuff.
We were three miles from the hot springs, 14 miles from our campsite, and 35 miles of windy road from the nearest town, but 62 miles from the nearest town with a medical center.
I chose to push my bike the last three miles to the hot springs rather than turn back and find a hospital. We were only one day into a four day camping trip and I was not about to cut it short.
Because where I come from, camping is a big deal.
No matter that I couldn’t lift my arm and my shoulder pain was excruciating, (probably the worst pain I’ve ever experienced), I was not going to let the accident spoil the rest of my camping trip.
Where I live, everyone loves camping. And whether you’re the glamping type in the state or the art fifth-wheel or a mountain man who only comes to town for a bar of soap, camping is the thing to do. The things we all do. Where some districts have moved to only four days a week to accommodate all the families taking time off to go camping.
Yeah, that’s totally a thing here.
So summer preschool would be amiss if we didn’t include a camping theme. The kids already have such a relationship with this theme! And I love this camping preschool printable for that reason.
Printable Camping Theme Bingo Game for Preschool
A simple bingo game is a fun way to begin a camping theme in preschool.
As always, I offer five other ways to use this camping printable, so be sure to read all the ideas at the end of the post. And don’t forget to grab your free camping preschool printable, too.
Materials
- Free camping bingo game (found at the end of this post)
- Bingo chips (or math counters)
The Set-Up
Simply print, cut, and laminate.
Give each preschooler a game card and a small bowl of counters and then invite them to join you in a game of camping bingo!
The Camping Theme Bingo Game
This game is played like all other bingo games. A facilitator draws a card and calls out the picture for the children to find on their cards. If they have the matching picture on their cards, they use a math counter to cover it up. The first player to get five in a row wins the game!
One of the reasons I like bingo and blackout games is because they can help develop vocabulary and oral language skills. You can challenge your preschoolers by asking them to first name the picture or beginning sound on the calling card before you name it.
More Ways to Use This Camping Bingo Game
You know I adore a printable that can be used in more than one way. Here are some other ideas for using this printable.
- Make two copies of the calling cards and play a memory game.
- Invite younger preschoolers to describe the pictures they see on their game cards. Have them talk what they see and share their experiences.
- Use the cards as inspiration to tell and make up stories about camping. As the teacher or parent, you can write down the children’s stories to demonstrate awareness.
- Challenge the preschoolers to find the differences between two cards. Compare two cards to see what pictures are the same and which pictures are missing.
- Make two copies of each game card. Cut the rows from the second game cards and invite preschoolers to match the cut rows from the second card to the complete game cards.
Looking for more summer printables for preschoolers?
Summer has some of the best themes for teaching preschool! Try some of these free preschool printables.
Get your camping preschool printable here!
Think this bingo game is one your preschoolers will love? You can grab your free camping bingo game by clicking the image below.
Free Printable Camping Bingo Game
Then keep reading for even more printable summer activities for preschoolers!
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I am Sarah, an educator turned stay-at-home mama of five! I am the owner and creator of Stay At Home Educator, a website about intentional teaching and purposeful learning in the early childhood years. I’ve taught range of levels, including preschool and college, and a little bit of just about everything in between. Right now, my focus is teaching my children and running a preschool from my home. Credentials include: Bachelors in Art, Masters in Curriculum and Instruction
Camping Bingo Pdf
