Screen-Free Week Bingo Card Generator

About Screen-Free Week bingo

All 40 Screen-Free Week bingo tasks

Every entry from Act out a play to Write a story, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop “Play cards” if it does not suit your group, or add your own.

• A: Act out a play
• B: Bake cookies 🍪, Blow bubbles 🫧, Bug hunt 🐛, Build a fort, Build with blocks
• C: Cardboard rocket, Climb a tree 🌳, Cook dinner together
• D: Dance party 💃, Do a jigsaw puzzle 🧩, Draw a comic
• F: Family walk, Fly a kite 🪁, Fold an origami frog
• G: Go on a bike ride 🚲, Go to a park
• H: Have a picnic 🧺, Hide-and-seek, Hopscotch
• L: Learn a magic trick, Look at the stars
• M: Make a bird feeder
• P: Paper airplanes ✈️, Plant seeds 🌱, Play a board game, Play an instrument, Play cards 🃏, Play catch, Play tag, Play with play dough, Puppet show
• R: Read a chapter
• S: Sidewalk chalk, Sing a song
• T: Tell jokes 😂
• V: Visit the library
• W: Water balloons, Write a letter ✉️, Write a story

Screen-Free Week bingo at a glance

Screen-Free Week bingo as a called game

For a one-session version, draw the 40 tasks at random like a classic game. 150 shuffled orders on this set's first 60 cards: with 30 players the first line comes after a median 12 calls (about 2 minutes at 10 seconds a call); a blackout needs 37.

How to play Screen-Free Week bingo

1. 1

   Print the Screen-Free Week cards

   Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with “Do a jigsaw puzzle”, “Cook dinner together”, “Learn a magic trick”, “Blow bubbles” and “Water balloons”.

2. 2

   Agree on the time frame

   Each player marks a square once it is done, such as “Dance party” or “Family walk”. Set the period first (a week, a month, a season); a line needs 5 squares (4 on a line through the free center) and a full card all 24.

3. 3

   Hang the card on the fridge and let children choose the next activity from it whenever they say they are bored.

4. 4

   Group the squares by weather before the week starts: “Fly a kite” and “Bug hunt” for sunny days, “Puppet show” and “Write a story” for rainy ones.

5. 5

   Adults play too: a parent who reaches for a phone must complete one square, such as “Tell jokes”, with the kids.

6. 6

   Check the card

   Ask the winner what they did for each square on the line. A full card is 24 of the 40 tasks; card 1 of this set, for example, includes “Do a jigsaw puzzle” and “Cook dinner together”.

Screen-Free Week bingo variations

• Screen-Free Week variation

  Family relay: each family member completes a square and then picks the next one for someone else; the week's goal is to fill the whole card together as a team.

• Blackout round

  Card 1 needs all 24 tasks, “Do a jigsaw puzzle” to “Bake cookies”; over a 30-day month that is about 5.6 tasks a week.

• Picture bingo for pre-readers

  Use 3x3 cards with the 14 entries that have a symbol, such as Go on a bike ride, Bake cookies and Write a letter.

First 15 entries on the Screen-Free Week caller sheet

Seed "screen-free-week" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints (use it as a checklist, or call from it). With these entries in this order, card 29 of the first 30 completes row 3 (“Go on a bike ride”, “Go to a park”, “Bake cookies” and “Climb a tree”) on entry 12, and card 2 is the first full card on entry 38.

Themes like Screen-Free Week 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.