Printable bingo cards
Road trip bingo cards for the car
Travel bingo has no caller. Each passenger watches out of the window and crosses off a square when they see what it names: a wind turbine, a tunnel, a field of sheep. Because the cards differ, two children on the same back seat are hunting for different things.
Road trip bingo
The preview is scaled to fit your screen and prints at full size, one sheet of paper per page of cards. In the print dialog choose your printer or Save as PDF, and set scale to 100%. Nothing you type leaves this browser.
Before you set off
- Print one card per passenger the night before and clip each to something stiff: a clipboard, a hardback book or a cereal box cut flat. A pencil on a string saves hunting under the seats.
- Slide the card into a plastic sleeve and use a dry-wipe pen. The same card can be wiped at every fuel stop and played again on the next leg or on the way home.
- Fit the list to your route. Driving to the coast, add lighthouse, seagull and sand dunes; crossing farmland, add combine harvester and grain silo. Remove anything you will not pass, such as toll booth.
- Set a spotting rule to stop arguments: the spotter must say it aloud while it is still in view, and only the first person to call it may mark that sighting. The driver plays by ear and never by card.
- For children who cannot read yet, pick three by three and go through the eight words with them before leaving, or have an older sibling read the card aloud at the start of each hour.
Things to spot from the window
Vehicles, road furniture, landscape and animals that turn up on most long drives. Four cards print to begin with, one for each passenger, on four separate sheets with large squares.
- Red car
- Yellow car
- Motorbike
- Truck
- Bus
- Camper van
- Tractor
- Police car
- Ambulance
- Fire engine
- Tow truck
- Car transporter
- Cement mixer
- Road sign
- Speed limit sign
- Stop sign
- Traffic lights
- Roundabout
- Bridge
- Tunnel
- River
- Lake
- Hill
- Wind turbine
- Pylon
- Water tower
- Church spire
- Farm
- Cows
- Sheep
- Horse
- Dog in a car
- Bird on a wire
- Fuel station
- Rest stop
- Picnic table
- Toll booth
- Roadworks
- Traffic cone
- Digger
- Crane
- Train
- Railway crossing
- Plane in the sky
- Helicopter
- Boat on a trailer
- Bicycle
- Roof box
- Flag
- Billboard
Questions
How does road trip bingo work without a caller?
The road does the calling. Each player looks out of the window and marks a square on their own card when they see that thing. First to complete a line says bingo, and the rest carry on for second place or a full card.
Why is there no call sheet on this page?
It is switched off to begin with because a spotting game does not need one. Tick the call sheet option if you would like a printed list of every item, for instance to play a called version in a waiting room.
What age can play car bingo?
Confident readers from six or seven can manage a five by five card alone. Younger children enjoy the small grid with help, and teenagers will join in if you let them write some of the list.
Will it work on a train or a plane?
On a train, most of the list still applies; add station, platform clock and level crossing. For a flight, replace the list with airport and cabin sights such as a suitcase trolley, a window seat and a drinks cart.
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