Hello, Design Dazzle readers!
I’m Michele, and I create at The Scrap Shoppe.
I’m really excited to be here as part of the 100 Ideas of Christmas Wonderful!
As a mom of two little boys, I enjoy coming up with new and fun ways to interact with them. Especially around the holidays! I want Christmas to feel just as special to them as it always has to me. And that means finding lots of things to do together as a family!
Today I would love to share a Christmas Bingo
game that includes some free printables for you so you can play at home, too!
Let’s get started on the tutorial…
I printed my bingo cards on fabric because I thought, over the years as we play, it would hold up pretty well. But of course you can print these bingo sheets on cardstock if you so choose.
To run fabric through your printer, you need 2 things:
fabric and freezer paper
1. Cut your freezer paper into 8.5×11″ sheets.
2. Also cut your fabric into 8.5×11″ sheets. I’m using unbleached muslin.
3. Line up your fabric with the shiny side of the freezer paper.
4. Iron the two pieces together.
5. The shiny side of the freezer paper with fuse to the fabric.
6. Feed your freezer paper/fabric into your printer. You shouldn’t have to tell your printer any special commands to print on fabric, but you may want to change the print quality to high for the best results.
(The free Christmas bingo printables can be found for download at the end of this post.)
7. Out should come your printed fabric!
Now that you have printed your bingo cards on the fabric we want to thicken them up…
8. Peel your fabric off of the freezer paper.
and attach the sticky side to the back of your bingo sheets.10. Trim some felt (or similar backing) to 8.5×11″ and iron the fusible webbing-backed fabric on top of the felt. The webbing will fuse the two pieces of material together.
11. Cut out you bingo cards.
The fabric bingo cards can now easily be handled by little hands and aren’t too floppy with the extra weight of the felt behind them.
I also have a sheet of bingo images to use to play the game.
Print and cut out.
We need little tokens to put on our bingo sheets so I cut up little squares of felt.
To keep up with the felt tokens, I dressed up an old baby food jar with scrapbook paper, scrap muslin, and ric-rac to store them in. The bingo image cards are small enough to store in there, too!
Though I only printed 4 bingo cards (we’re only a family of four!), there are 8 total available for download. I promise they are all different! The star is always in the center though and can be used as a free space if you so choose.
The 4 bingo sheets and images cards can be downloaded via
the following links in Google Documents.
Play the game as you would any bingo game.
First one to 5 in a row (horizontal or vertical) or diagonal wins.
It will be a fun matching game for the little ones as well!
I hope you enjoy this Christmas bingo game and would love for you to come visit me sometime!
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Thanks Michele!! I LOVE your ideas. This fabric print bingo would certainly make a wonderful Christmas heirloom for your family.
To view all of our 100 Ideas of Christmas Wonderful posts visit here. More “wonderful” everyday until Christmas!
Deesdailynews says
What a cute Idea! I am going to make this for my kids so that we can play Christmas Bingo during the month of December!
Anora says
Great ideas are shared to make your Christmas colorful and attractive…
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Beverly {Flamingo Toes} says
This is sooooo fun Michele!! I love the designs you created and the idea of putting them on fabric is perfect!! Makes for super easy storage too!
beth says
I love the look of these. They are really cute!
Lesley says
Adorable idea. My kids are a little too old for this one, but I know there are a TON of gals out there who will totally do this! Fun!
DesignDazzle.blogspot.com says
Aren't these bingo cards so ADORABLE??? Thank you Michele for sharing!! You are so talented : )
Michele {The Scrap Shoppe} says
Thank you so much for having me over, Toni!! And thank you everyone for the sweet comments. We are LOVING this game at our house!
Karina says
What a great idea. My nieces would sure love this. Did this take you a lot of time to make? I'd sure love to find time to make this.
Kara @ Mine for the Making says
LOVE LOVE LOVE this Michele! I am sharing it on my FB page 🙂
Michele {The Scrap Shoppe} says
It really didn't take very long at all, Karina. Just a lot of ironing and cutting. Designing the printables took the longest amount of time! 🙂
And thank you, Kara, for sharing on FB!! ♥
Jessie says
I Love these they are perfect Thank you sooo much my 5 year old will love them. I printed them out but didn't realize needed felt so i'm going to finish them tomorrow. but I did notice the Santa had the same picutes as the other Santa. Do you have another one we can down load? Thanks again these are perfect 🙂
Michele {The Scrap Shoppe} says
Thank you for noticing that, Jessie! I've fixed the problem. If you download the Snowman Bingo file, the Santa Claus card will be different from the other one. Thanks!! 🙂