Home >> Games & Cards >> Party Games

How to Create, Print, and Generate Custom Bingo Cards

Bingo is a popular group game that fits any age group. If you are planning party games you may want to use cards that have a theme and use words or pictures instead of the classic Bingo numbers. You can create your own cards at home to customize the theme of the game. You can design the cards to feature information on the people attending your party, or use a holiday theme. To get started, you'll need to know how to create and print the cards.

Things You'll Need

Computer
Excel software
Printer
Cardstock

Instructions

- 1
  Open the Excel software package. Click "File" then "New" to start a new spreadsheet.
- 2
  Click on cell A1 and use your mouse to highlight all cells in a square to cell E5.
- 3
  Click on "Format" at the top of your page and choose "Borders" from the drop-down menu.
- 4
  Choose the option for a thick outer border and thin center lines (shown as an image) by clicking on it.
- 5
  Click on "Format" again and choose "Row Height" from the drop-down menu.
- 6
  Type the number "90" into the row height field that appears.
- 7
  Click on "Format" again at the top of the page, then choose "Column Width" from the drop-down menu that appears.
- 8
  Type the number "15" in the column width field. Your cells should now be the proportions of a bingo card.
- 9
  Type letters for any five-letter word into the top row of cells, with one letter in each cell. Adjust the font point size until the letters are large enough to fill each cell.
- 10
  Type numbers or words that appear under each letter. Make a handwritten (or typed on a separate worksheet) list of all the possibilities for each column so that you can randomize the numbers or words for each card.
- 11
  Type the word "free" in the center square. The center square is the third cell in the third column, which in Bingo is your free space.
- 12
  Print the card, and then switch out a word or two to from each column to create a new card. Each time you print a card, switch out some words to avoid two people having the same card.

Party Games