Fall Bingo for Kids

Autumn words, each with a science fact to read after the call, on cards sized for a first grader.

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Ready-made list, 111 squares. Paste your own to replace it, or type to add to it.

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How it works

This fall bingo for kids deals 4 × 4 cards from 111 autumn words and sights: acorn, scarecrow, geese in a V. Nothing is scary, and nothing belongs to Halloween or Thanksgiving, so one fall bingo printable lasts the whole season.

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Fit the list to the readers

All 111 squares suit second to fifth graders. In our simulated games on the 4 × 4 card, a class of 25 had a winner after about 27 calls. For new readers, Ready-made list has Short words for new readers: 25 words such as leaf, owl and mud, and the same class needs about 8 calls.

A science fact behind the call

Forty-two squares carry a line to read aloud, shown under the call. The yellow in a leaf was there all year, hidden under the green. The red is made fresh near the end of summer. A woolly bear caterpillar freezes in winter and thaws in spring, and its stripes do not forecast the weather. Each fact was checked on September 19, 2026.

  • For a fall bingo board that lasts all season, tape a card per child to the fridge or classroom door; mark what is seen.
  • A 4 × 4 card has no free square, so every line needs four words. Two cards to a page keeps the type big.
  • Mushroom and Red berries are look-only squares, and the list says so. Before a walk with very young children, a grown-up can delete both lines.

Questions and answers

How do I print a card for every child in a class?

Set How many cards to the class size, up to 60 with no two alike, and print. This free fall bingo printable needs no sign-up. To send cards home, save a PDF from the print window.

Why is there no turkey, carved pumpkin or costume?

Those belong to Thanksgiving bingo and Halloween bingo, which have lists of their own. Leaving them out means one set of cards works from the first week of school to the last leaf. Pumpkins, owls and spiders are here as harvest and nature words.

Can children play on a tablet by themselves?

Yes, once a grown-up opens the page. A child taps a square to mark it and taps again to undo. The game needs no names, no sign-up and no typing, and Clear marks wipes the card for the next player.

All 111 squares

Short words for new readers 25

  • Acorn The nut of an oak tree. It sits in a little cup.
  • Apple
  • Barn
  • Boots
  • Bus The school bus counts.
  • Coat
  • Crow
  • Deer In fall, acorns can be up to a quarter of what a deer eats.
  • Fog
  • Fox
  • Frost White ice crystals on the grass on a cold morning.
  • Hat
  • Leaf Any leaf counts, on the tree or on the ground.
  • Log
  • Mud
  • Nest An empty one is easy to see once the leaves are down.
  • Nut
  • Owl
  • Pear
  • Pie
  • Rain
  • Rake
  • Soup
  • Web A spider web with dew on it is easy to find.
  • Wind
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Trees and leaves 18

  • Bare branch
  • Brown leaf Dry and curled counts.
  • Chestnut
  • Crunchy leaves You have to hear the crunch.
  • Evergreen tree A tree that stays green while the others turn.
  • Falling leaf It has to be in the air when you see it.
  • Helicopter seed The winged seed of a maple or an ash. It spins as it falls. Its proper name is samara.
  • Maple leaf Maples are on both lists: trees that turn yellow and trees that turn red.
  • Moss
  • Mushroom Look only. Never taste a wild mushroom.
  • Oak leaf Oaks are one of the trees whose leaves can turn red.
  • Pine cone
  • Red berries Look only. Leave the berries for the birds.
  • Red leaf The red is made fresh near the end of summer. Bright days make more of it.
  • Tree bark
  • Tree stump
  • Twig
  • Yellow leaf The yellow was in the leaf all year, hidden under the green.

Animals getting ready 15

  • Black bear Bears eat a lot of acorns in fall.
  • Blue jay Jays hide acorns for later, the way squirrels do.
  • Chipmunk It carries food to its burrow in its cheek pouches.
  • Cricket Listen for it in the evening.
  • Earthworm
  • Field mouse
  • Flock of birds Ten or more birds flying together.
  • Geese in a V Canada geese fly in a V and take turns at the front, the hardest place to fly.
  • Monarch butterfly Monarchs from eastern North America fly to Mexico for the winter, up to 3,000 miles.
  • Rabbit
  • Raccoon
  • Spider
  • Squirrel Squirrels bury acorns to eat later. A forgotten acorn can grow into an oak.
  • Woodpecker Some woodpeckers eat acorns.
  • Woolly bear caterpillar Black at both ends, brown in the middle. It freezes in winter and thaws in spring. Its stripes do not forecast the weather.

Harvest and food 21

  • Apple cider In the United States and Canada, cider is apple juice that was not filtered. That is why it looks cloudy.
  • Bushel basket A big round basket for apples.
  • Cinnamon
  • Corn maze A maze cut into a field of corn.
  • Corn stalks
  • Cranberries Most are picked by flooding the field. The berries float.
  • Farm stand
  • Gourd
  • Hay bale
  • Hayride
  • Orchard A field of fruit trees.
  • Popcorn
  • Pumpkin A pumpkin is a kind of winter squash.
  • Pumpkin patch
  • Pumpkin seeds Also called pepitas. Roasted, they are a snack.
  • Scarecrow A figure in old clothes, put in a field to keep birds off the seeds and crops.
  • Squash
  • Sunflower
  • Sweet potato
  • Tractor
  • Wheelbarrow

Weather, sky and clothes 16

  • Backpack
  • Chilly morning
  • Early sunset Dark before dinner counts.
  • First day of fall North of the equator it is the September equinox, between September 21 and 24.
  • Flannel shirt
  • Gray sky
  • Harvest moon The full moon nearest the first day of fall.
  • Jacket
  • Mittens
  • Morning dew
  • Puddle
  • Scarf
  • See your breath A little cloud when you breathe out on a cold day.
  • Sweater
  • Umbrella
  • Wool socks

Things to do 16

  • Bag the leaves
  • Bake muffins With a grown-up.
  • Collect acorns
  • Feed the birds
  • Fly a kite
  • Jump in a leaf pile
  • Leaf rubbing Paper over a leaf, then rub with the side of a crayon.
  • Make a leaf crown
  • Nature walk
  • Pick an apple
  • Plant bulbs
  • Press a leaf in a book
  • Read under a blanket
  • Smell of woodsmoke
  • Sort leaves by color
  • Stack firewood

How this list was compiled: Own work: an original list of fall words and things to spot or do, written for children and the grown-ups who run the game. It has no Halloween words and no Thanksgiving words, because those holidays have their own pages, and nothing scary. No square sends a child to a fire: the campfire square was changed on 2026-09-20 to a thing to notice, the smell of woodsmoke. The first group holds short words for new readers. Every fact in a clue line was checked on Wikipedia on 2026-09-19: leaf colors (chlorophyll, carotenoids present all year, anthocyanins made near the end of summer, maples and oaks among the trees that turn red, maples among those that turn yellow) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_leaf_color; acorns, the animals that eat them and scatter-hoarding by squirrels and jays at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn; winged seeds at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samara_%28fruit%29; chipmunk cheek pouches at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmunk; the V formation at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_goose; the monarch's flight to Mexico (up to 3,000 miles) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly_migration; the woolly bear, its frozen winter and the weather folklore ('no scientific evidence') at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrharctia_isabella; pumpkins as winter squash and pepitas at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin; the flooded cranberry harvest at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranberry; unfiltered cider at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_cider; corn mazes at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_maze; scarecrows at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarecrow; the harvest moon at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_moon; the September equinox (September 21 to 24) at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_equinox. Game lengths quoted on the page come from our simulation of 4,000 random games per case (cards dealt at random from the list, every square called once in random order, first straight line wins, free center on 3 x 3 and 5 x 5 cards only). Licence: own work

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