Spring Bingo Printable: Free Printable Cards, 118 Squares: how it works
Press New set of 4 cards and the page deals four spring bingo cards, no two alike, from 118 squares: the garden, rain and mud, animals, things to do outside and what happens at home once the windows open. This spring bingo printable is free and carries no holiday, so it suits any week from the equinox to the last day of school.
Indoors: a called game with clues
Set How many cards to one per player and switch to Call the game. Every square on the list below has a clue or a fact, so the caller can read "a shovel for one hand" and wait for someone to say trowel. The game is unhurried: in our simulation of 4,000 games with 12 cards, the first line took about 38 calls on the 5 × 5 grid and about 15 on 3 × 3.
Outdoors: a card you mark on a walk
Spring is the season when the list is outside the window. The first three groups below (flowers, weather and animals, 74 squares) can all be found on a walk. Word list, one per line holds the squares in the same order, so delete every line from Flying a kite down and deal again. Players mark what they see, hear or smell: a robin, buds on a branch, rain on dry ground.
Tips
Walk the same route twice, a month apart. In March the card fills with mud and crocuses. By May it wants lilacs and ducklings.
Say before you start that hearing counts: birdsong at dawn, a spring peeper and the first thunderstorm are on the list.
Add what your own spring looks like: the creek behind the school, a neighbor's magnolia, the day the ice cream stand opens.
Questions and answers
How do you win spring bingo?
First to mark five in a row, across, down or corner to corner, calls bingo, and the free center square counts for everyone. On a walk that can take a while, so try four corners or a race to any ten squares. The list under Called so far checks a winner's card.
Is it really free to print?
Yes. Dealing, printing and sharing cost nothing and need no account. Print 4 cards opens the browser's print window; choose Save as PDF there to keep a file. Cards come two to a page unless you change Cards per printed page.
Why is there no Easter on the list?
Spring holidays have pages of their own, and a card without them works for any classroom, office or seniors' group in any week. To add them, type your own squares into Word list, one per line and deal again. Back to the spring list undoes it.
Thanksgiving Charades Ideas165 Thanksgiving charades cards in 8 topics: basting the turkey, a parade balloon on a windy day, a toast that goes on too long.
Apple blossomPink-white petals now, fruit by fall.
AsparagusGreen spears that come back on their own each spring.
Bird bathScrubbed, filled and open for business.
Buds on a branchTight knots where the leaves will be.
Cherry blossomIn Japan, gathering under the blooming trees is a centuries-old custom called hanami.
CrocusOne of the first flowers of late winter and early spring, grown from a corm. Saffron comes from a cousin that blooms in autumn.
DaffodilA yellow trumpet grown from a bulb, and the national flower of Wales.
DandelionThe name comes from the French for lion's tooth, after the jagged leaves.
Flower bedRaked, edged and waiting.
ForsythiaA bush whose bright yellow flowers come out before its leaves do.
Garden glovesStiff with last year's dirt.
Garden hoseUncoiled for the first time since fall.
HyacinthA column of small flowers you can smell from across the room.
LilacPurple clusters and the strongest scent on the block.
MagnoliaFlowers the size of teacups.
New leavesThe lightest green of the whole year.
Pussy willowFurry gray catkins that come out before the leaves, named for their likeness to tiny cats.
RhubarbSour pink stalks for pie. Only the stalks are eaten: the leaves are poisonous.
Seed packetsA picture on the front, instructions on the back.
SeedlingsTwo small leaves on a thread of stem.
Snap peasPlanted early, because they like it cool.
TrowelA shovel for one hand.
TulipFirst grown as a garden flower in Persia about a thousand years ago. The Dutch craze for the bulbs ran from 1634 to 1637.
VioletsSmall purple flowers hiding in the lawn.
Watering canA spout, a handle and a sprinkle at the end.
WeedsFirst up, last wanted.
WheelbarrowOne wheel, two handles, a full load.
Rain, mud and sky 23
April showersThey bring May flowers, or so the rhyme goes.
Dew on the grassWet shoes before eight in the morning.
DrizzleToo light for an umbrella, too wet to ignore.
First thunderstormThe first rumble of the year.
Last patch of snowGray, shrinking and hiding on the shady side of a building.
Light jacketThe winter coat finally stays on its hook.
Longer eveningsLight in the sky after dinner again.
Morning mistGone by the time the bus comes.
MudWhere the snow used to be.
PollenYellow dust on every parked car.
PuddleA mirror in the driveway.
Puffy cloudsWhite heaps that look like something, if you stare.
Rain bootsMade for the middle of the puddle.
RainbowAlways in the part of the sky opposite the sun, with red on the outside of the arc.
RaincoatA hood, snaps and a drip line on the floor.
Rushing creekSnowmelt and rain, all headed downhill at once.
Smell of rainThe earthy scent of rain on dry ground has a name, petrichor, coined in 1964.
Sneezing fitThree in a row. Blame the trees.
Spring equinoxUsually March 20 in the Northern Hemisphere, and the start of astronomical spring.
Sun showerRain and sunshine at the same moment.
UmbrellaOpens with a snap, flips in a gust.
Warm breezeThe first one that does not make you zip up.
Windy dayHold on to your hat, and your kite.
Animals and new arrivals 24
AnthillA small volcano of sand in a sidewalk crack.
Baby birdsAll beak, and always hungry.
Bee on a flowerBusy, and not interested in you.
Birdsong at dawnThe alarm clock nobody set.
BumblebeeOnly young queens live through the winter. In early spring each comes out to start a new colony.
CalfA newborn in the pasture, staying close to its mother.
CaterpillarEating its way toward wings.
Dewy spider webInvisible until the morning hangs drops on it.
Ducklings in a rowOne parent in front, everyone else in line.
EarthwormOn the sidewalk after every rain. An American robin can find one underground by listening.
FawnSpotted, and hidden in tall grass.
Fluffy chicksYellow, peeping and small enough for one hand.
FoalA newborn horse, mostly legs.
Geese flying northHeaded back the way they came last fall.
LadybugRed, spotted and welcome in any garden.
LambWobbly legs and a tail that never stops.
Monarch butterflyEastern monarchs leave their winter roosts in Mexico in March. The trip north takes two to three generations.
Nest with eggsLook, never touch.
Rabbit on the lawnIt freezes, hoping you have not seen it.
RobinThe American robin lays three to five blue eggs and is among the first birds to sing at dawn.
SnailIt carries its house and leaves a silver line.
Spring peeperA small chorus frog of eastern North America whose chirping call marks the start of spring.
TadpolesYoung frogs, all head and tail. The back legs grow first.
Turtle on a logOut of the mud and into the sun.
Out and about 23
Baseball practiceGloves that still smell like last summer.
BinocularsFor the birds that just got back.
Blowing bubblesA wand, a breath and a breeze to carry them.
Car washGoodbye, road salt.
Farmers marketThe first stalls of the year: greens, eggs and seedlings.
First bike ridePump the tires, find the helmet, go.
Flying a kiteA windy day, a long string and an open field.
Garden centerCarts full of flowers and a very long checkout line.
HopscotchNumbered squares and one small stone.
Ice cream stand opensThe line forms on the first warm Saturday.
Jump ropeCounting out loud is part of it.
Maple sap bucketSap runs in late winter and early spring. It takes 20 to 50 parts of sap to boil down to one part of syrup.
Nature walkSame trail as winter, brand new.
Picnic blanketThe ground is still a little damp. Nobody minds.
Planting a treeDig wide, water well, check back in ten years.
PotholeWhat winter left in the road.
Puddle jumpingBoth feet, right in the middle.
Sidewalk chalkGone with the next rain.
Soccer practiceCones, shin guards and a muddy field.
Spring breakA week off, somewhere between March and April.
Street sweeperBrushing up a season of sand and grit.
Swing setThe seats are finally dry.
Walk without a coatThe first one of the year feels like a holiday.
Around the house 21
Closet cleanoutOne bag to keep, two to give away.
Coats packed awaySee you in November.
First cookoutThe grill comes out from under its cover.
First mow of the yearThe mower takes three pulls to believe it.
Flowers on the tableCut from the yard, in any jar that fits.
Laundry on the lineDried by the sun, for free.
Muddy paw printsFrom the back door to the couch.
Muddy shoesLeft on the porch, by order.
Open windowsThe first fresh air in the house since fall.
Patio chairs outWiped down and back on duty.
SandalsA little early, but who is counting.
Screen doorIt slams. It always slams.
Shedding dogEnough fur on the floor to build a second dog.
Short sleevesArms that have not seen the sun in months.
Smell of cut grassSpring, in one breath.
Spring cleaningEvery closet, one weekend.
SunglassesFound in last year's jacket.
Sweeping the porchLeaves from fall, sand from winter.
Washing windowsA winter of grime, inside and out.
Window left open overnightCool air and birds for an alarm clock.
Yard saleEverything must go, mostly to the neighbors.
How this list was compiled: Written for this site by the editors on 2026-09-18; nothing was copied from another bingo card or word list. Five groups: flowers and the garden, weather, animals, things seen and done outdoors, and things that happen around the house when the season turns. Every square is 30 characters or fewer. The line beside each square is a clue in our own words that a caller can read aloud in place of the word, or a fact. No holiday appears (no Easter, Passover, St. Patrick's Day, Earth Day or Mother's Day squares), so the list does not repeat the holiday pages and the cards work in any week of the season. Plan2 asks for a kids set; it was left out on purpose, because the page is audience general and the family exemplar's rule is that a general page does not carry a children's set (plan2 audienceContentTest). No brand, film, song or character appears. The list was screened against the site's clean rule: nothing sexual, no alcohol or drugs, nothing unkind about a person or group. Facts in the clues were checked on Wikipedia on 2026-09-19: the March equinox usually falls on March 20 and may be taken to mark the beginning of astronomical spring in the Northern Hemisphere (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_equinox); tulip cultivation dates to 10th-century Persia and the Dutch tulip mania ran 1634 to 1637 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip); the daffodil grows from a bulb and is the national flower of Wales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(plant)); crocuses grow from corms and saffron comes from the autumn-blooming Crocus sativus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocus); hanami (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_blossom); forsythia flowers before its leaves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsythia); dandelion from the French dent de lion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum); pussy willow catkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_willow); rhubarb stalks are eaten and the leaves are poisonous (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb); rainbows appear opposite the sun with red on the outer part of the primary arc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow); petrichor, a term introduced in a 1964 paper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor); the American robin's clutch of three to five blue eggs, its dawn song and its finding earthworms by listening (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_robin); tadpoles grow their back legs first (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadpole); the spring peeper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_peeper); bumblebee queens overwinter and found new colonies in early spring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumblebee); eastern monarchs begin the northern migration in March and two to three generations complete it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly_migration); maple sap rises in late winter and early spring and 20 to 50 volumes of sap make 1 volume of syrup (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_syrup). Left out because it may change: the US daylight saving time dates, since the same check found a bill to change them had passed the House in 2026 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_the_United_States). The usual ways to win at bingo (a row, column or diagonal, four corners, blackout) were checked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo_(American_version) on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work