French Animals Bingo Card Generator

About French Animals bingo

All 41 French Animals bingo words

Every entry from l'abeille to le zèbre, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop le serpent if it does not suit your group, or add your own.

• L: l'abeille 🐝, l'araignée 🕷️, l'écureuil 🐿️, l'éléphant 🐘, l'hippopotame 🦛, l'oiseau 🐦, l'ours 🐻, la baleine 🐋, la chèvre 🐐, la coccinelle 🐞, la fourmi 🐜, la girafe 🦒, la grenouille 🐸, la pieuvre 🐙, la poule 🐔, la souris 🐭, la tortue 🐢, la vache 🐮, le canard 🦆, le chameau 🐫, le chat 🐱, le cheval 🐴, le chien 🐶, le cochon 🐷, le coq 🐓, le crocodile 🐊, le dauphin 🐬, le hibou 🦉, le kangourou 🦘, le lapin 🐰, le lion 🦁, le loup 🐺, le mouton 🐑, le papillon 🦋, le poisson rouge 🐠, le renard 🦊, le requin 🦈, le serpent 🐍, le singe 🐵, le tigre 🐯, le zèbre 🦓

French Animals bingo at a glance

How long French Animals bingo lasts

Simulated over 150 shuffled games on cards 1-60 of this set: the median first line arrives on call 12 with 30 players and on call 15 with 10, while a blackout takes 37 calls, roughly 6 minutes at 10 seconds a call.

How to host French Animals bingo

1. 1

   Print the French Animals cards

   Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with le papillon, la souris, le canard, l'araignée and le tigre.

2. 2

   Print the caller sheet

   All 41 entries appear on it in shuffled order, opening with l'oiseau, le zèbre, l'écureuil, l'éléphant and l'hippopotame; tick each one as you read it out.

3. 3

   Make the animal noise or a quick mime and let the class name the animal in French before marking, which keeps pre-readers fully in the game.

4. 4

   For the elided words such as “l'ours” and “l'araignée”, ask players to guess whether the animal is le or la, then check in a dictionary.

5. 5

   Call the plural for a few animals, such as “les chevaux” for “le cheval” and “les hiboux” for “le hibou”, to show the irregular endings.

6. 6

   Call until someone shouts bingo

   With 30 cards, expect the first line near call 12 (l'abeille in this set's order) and a blackout near call 37; check the winner's squares against your ticked list.

French Animals bingo variations

• French Animals variation

  Habitat bingo: the caller names a place, such as “à la ferme”, “dans la mer” or “dans le jardin”, and players may mark one animal on their card that lives there, saying the full phrase aloud.

• Blackout round

  Card 1 needs all 24 squares, le papillon to la vache; on average one card fills after 40.3 of the 41 calls (98% of the deck).

• Picture bingo for pre-readers

  Use 3x3 cards with the 41 entries that have a symbol, such as le chien, le chat and l'oiseau.

First 15 calls of this French Animals set

Seed "french-animals" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints. With these calls, card 7 of the first 30 completes row 1 (le hibou, l'araignée, le renard, le mouton and le singe) on call 13, and card 27 is the first full card on call 34.

Themes like French Animals bingo

Ranked by category, occasion and audience; none of them repeats an entry from this list, so pasting two into the Edit words box gives a longer game.