Vacation Travel Bingo Games: Fun for All Ages

Traveling is always fun and exciting. However, sometimes getting to the destination can take a long long time especially if you are a child. Try playing these homemade bingo games to entertain your family while on vacation.

Travel Bingo

What Supplies You Will Need

- A few sheets of paper (8 ½ x 11). At least one piece of paper per player.
- Small stickers. 16 per player for each game.
- Something to write with. Crayon, pencil, pen, or marker.

How To Play

1) Have everyone in the vehicle make a list of different things you might see as you are traveling.

2) Have each person take their piece of paper and fold it in half from top to bottom. Then, fold it in half again from top to bottom. Again, fold it in half but this time from side to side. Fold in half from side to side again. Finally, unfold the paper and you will have 16 equal sized squares with 4 going across and 4 going down the paper.

3) Everyone in the vehicle needs to write down one thing from their list in each of the 16 squares. If you have smaller children try drawing pictures in each square instead of writing.

4) Have the game paper and stickers within easy reach during the trip. This way if you find an item on your game paper you can easily put your sticker on.

5) As you are traveling along on vacation and spot an item on the game paper say it aloud for everyone to hear and put a sticker on it.

6) Winner is the first person to get 4 stickers in a row. To play more rounds have the second winner fill 2 rows or the entire bingo paper.

Radio Bingo

What Supplies You Will Need

- A few sheets of paper (8 ½ x 11). At least one piece of paper per player.
- Something to write with. Crayon, pencil, pen, or marker.
- Ruler
- Radio

How To Play

1) Using the ruler, each player divides a piece of paper into 16 squares. This becomes your Radio Bingo card.

2) One each space, write something that you would expect to hear on the radio. For example, you might make one card with only singers, and another with titles of songs, products, names of people in the news, sound effects, and so on.

3) Now one player gathers all the cards and mixes them facedown. Each player picks a bingo card. You might get your own card or one someone else made.

4) Now it is time to play. Turn on the radio.

5) When one of the items on your Radio Bingo card comes up on the radio announce it to the other players. Cross it off your card by drawing a big X through the middle. Or if you want to use the card again use a smaller mark such as your initials or something.

6) Winner is the first person to cross out every space in a row either across, up, down, or diagonally.