Twelve Days of Christmas Bingo Card Generator

About Twelve Days of Christmas bingo

All 44 Twelve Days of Christmas bingo words

Every entry from 12 partridges to Yule log, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop 12 partridges if it does not suit your group, or add your own.

• 0-9 and symbols: 12 partridges, 364 gifts in all, 40 gold rings, 42 geese, 42 swans, 78 gifts on day 12
• B: Bean in the cake, Bird song
• C: Christmas Day, Christmastide, Countdown song, Cumulative song
• D: Day one, Day twelve
• E: Eight maids a-milking, Eleven pipers piping, Epiphany
• F: Feast day, Five gold rings, Four calling birds
• K: King cake
• L: Lord of Misrule
• M: Memory game, Mince pies, Mirth without Mischief, My true love
• N: New Year's Day, Nine ladies dancing
• P: Partridge, Pear tree
• S: Seven swans a-swimming, Six geese a-laying, St. Stephen's Day
• T: Taking down the tree, Ten lords a-leaping, Three French hens, Three Kings, Twelfth cake, Twelfth Night, Twelve drummers, Twelve verses, Two turtle doves
• W: Wassail
• Y: Yule log

Twelve Days of Christmas bingo at a glance

When to play Twelve Days of Christmas bingo

How long Twelve Days of Christmas bingo lasts

150 shuffled call orders, played on the first 60 cards of this set. With 30 players the first line comes after a median 13 calls (about 2 minutes at one call every 10 seconds); the first blackout needs 40 calls (about 7 minutes).

How to host Twelve Days of Christmas bingo

1. 1

   Print the Twelve Days of Christmas cards

   Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with Eight maids a-milking, Lord of Misrule, 12 partridges, Twelfth cake and Three Kings.

2. 2

   Print the caller sheet

   All 44 entries appear on it in shuffled order, opening with My true love, Twelfth cake, Bird song, Twelfth Night and Mince pies; tick each one as you read it out.

3. 3

   Sing the song slowly and let players mark each gift as it appears; the cumulative verses mean Two turtle doves comes up in eleven of the twelve verses.

4. 4

   Use the number squares as math prompts: ask players to show why the true love sends 42 geese in total, six a day from day six to day twelve.

5. 5

   Teach the calendar along the way: the twelve days run from Christmas Day to Twelfth Night, ending at Epiphany with King cake or Twelfth cake.

6. 6

   Call until someone shouts bingo

   With 30 cards, expect the first line near call 13 (Christmas Day in this set's order) and a blackout near call 40; check the winner's squares against your ticked list.

Twelve Days of Christmas bingo variations

• Twelve Days of Christmas variation

  Counting round: call a day number instead of a gift. Players mark any square that belongs to that day's new gift or verse, and must say how many gifts arrive that day.

• Blackout round

  Card 1 needs all 24 squares, Eight maids a-milking to 42 geese; on average one card fills after 43.2 of the 44 calls (98% of the deck).

• Quick 4x4 round

  A 4x4 card needs 16 of the 44 entries and no free space; one card is full after about 42.4 calls instead of 43.2.

First 15 calls of this Twelve Days of Christmas set

Seed "twelve-days-of-christmas" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints. With these calls, card 12 of the first 30 completes the N column (St. Stephen's Day, Twelfth Night, New Year's Day and Twelfth cake) on call 11, and card 16 is the first full card on call 40.

Themes like Twelve Days of Christmas bingo

Boxing Day bingo is the closest list: it shares 1 entry with this one, such as St. Stephen's Day. For a longer game, paste both lists into the Edit words box; duplicates are removed automatically.

More Christmas bingo cards

Twelve Days of Christmas bingo is one of 39 Christmas lists here, and the Christmas bingo ideas page sets all 39 side by side. Christmas bingo is the closest fit for family game nights and classrooms and shares one entry with this list, Yule log.