Summer Bingo Printable: Things to Do Before School Starts

A summer bingo board for the fridge: do it, date it, fill the card before school starts.

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102 words in the list. Each 5 × 5 card uses 24.

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Summer Bingo Printable: Things to Do Before School Starts: how it works

Every square on this summer bingo printable is something to do, not something to spot: run through a sprinkler, read a book in one day, mail a real letter. The page deals cards of 24 from 102 activities, no two alike, so everyone in the house gets a different summer. Press Print 4 cards, tape them to the fridge and mark each square once it is done.

A game played over weeks, with no caller

Each person owns a card and marks a square after doing the thing, with the date written in the corner. A 5 × 5 card holds 24 activities around a free center: over a ten-week break, a full card is two or three squares a week, and one line takes four or five. Cards print one to a page here, which leaves room to write.

Edit the list before anyone marks a square

Delete what cannot happen this year: no lake nearby, no county fair. Then add lines of your own to Word list, one per line: the town pool, the cousins' visit, the ice cream stand on the way home. The cards re-deal with every edit, so finish first. For a rainy week, paste only the Read, make and rainy days group and print 3 × 3 cards.

Tips

  • Stuck for a plan? Press Call the game, then Call the next one. It draws one activity at random from the whole list, not only from your card.
  • For a summer bingo printable PDF, press Print 4 cards and pick the PDF destination in your browser's print window.
  • Change Text of the free square to the year or your town, up to 20 characters, so the card is worth keeping.

Questions and answers

Is this a free summer bingo printable?

Yes. Dealing, printing and sharing cost nothing, and there is no sign-up. Set How many cards to one per person, up to 60 for a camp group, and no two will match. Most of the 102 activities are free too; delete the fair and mini golf if the budget says so.

Can we keep the game on a phone all summer?

You can, with a caution. Marks are saved in that browser, and Bring back my last cards reopens the last set with them. New set of 4 cards clears them, and so does clearing the browser's data. Over ten weeks, paper on the fridge is the safer record.

What ages is the list for?

It was written for a household, not an age group: a six-year-old can blow giant bubbles and an adult can finish a jigsaw puzzle. Fire squares, such as Toast a marshmallow, assume a grown-up is there.

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All 102 squares

Water and keeping cool 20

  • Build a sandcastle
  • Cannonball into a pool Only where the pool allows jumping.
  • Collect shells
  • Float on a tube
  • Go fishing Catching nothing still counts.
  • Jump the waves
  • Lawn water slide
  • Make ice pops Juice in a mold or a paper cup, with a stick, frozen overnight.
  • Melt a toy out of ice Freeze a small toy in a tub of water, then free it with warm water and salt.
  • Paddle a canoe or kayak
  • Run through a sprinkler A hose held by someone else counts.
  • Skip a stone Two skips or more.
  • Sponge relay race
  • Spray bottle tag
  • Swim in a lake A pond, a river or the sea counts too.
  • Wade in a creek
  • Walk in warm rain No thunder, no lightning.
  • Wash the car by hand
  • Water balloon toss
  • Water the garden

Outside and after dark 22

  • Bike somewhere new
  • Blow giant bubbles
  • Climb a tree
  • Count shooting stars The Perseid meteor shower is at its best between August 9 and 14 each year.
  • Draw with sidewalk chalk
  • Find a constellation One you can name and point to.
  • Flashlight tag
  • Hike a new trail
  • Look for a four-leaf clover Looking counts. Finding one is a bonus.
  • Name three cloud shapes
  • Picnic in a park
  • Play kickball
  • Roll down a hill
  • Sleep in a tent The backyard counts.
  • Tell a campfire story
  • Toast a marshmallow A grill counts.
  • Toss a flying disc
  • Walk barefoot in the grass
  • Watch a storm from the porch
  • Watch a sunrise
  • Watch a sunset North of the equator the longest day is the June solstice, June 20 or 21.
  • Watch fireflies Fireflies are beetles. They flash at twilight to find a mate.

Eat, pick and cook 20

  • Bake a berry cobbler
  • Eat a peach over the sink
  • Eat breakfast outside
  • Eat corn on the cob
  • Eat watermelon outside
  • Freeze grapes
  • Get shaved ice
  • Grill dinner
  • Grow something you can eat A pot of basil on a windowsill counts.
  • Husk the corn
  • Ice cream for dinner Once.
  • Ice cream in a bag A small bag of cream and sugar inside a big bag of ice and salt. Shake until it sets.
  • Make a fruit salad
  • Make an ice cream float
  • Pick berries A farm, a garden or a bush by the path.
  • Run a lemonade stand
  • Seed-spitting contest
  • Squeeze real lemonade From lemons, not a mix.
  • Try a new ice cream flavor
  • Visit a farmers market

Read, make and rainy days 20

  • Build a blanket fort
  • Finish a jigsaw puzzle
  • Keep a nature journal Three entries or more.
  • Learn a card game
  • Learn a magic trick
  • Mail a real letter Envelope, stamp, mailbox.
  • Make a bird feeder
  • Make a time capsule
  • Make friendship bracelets
  • Paint rocks
  • Paper airplane contest
  • Press flowers
  • Put on a backyard show
  • Read a book in one day Any length. A picture book counts for a small reader.
  • Read five books Keep the list on the back of the card.
  • Read outside
  • Tie-dye a shirt
  • Visit the library
  • Whistle with a blade of grass
  • Write a postcard

Go places and do good 20

  • Give away outgrown clothes
  • Go to a ballgame Any level, from the local league up.
  • Go to a county fair
  • Hear music outdoors
  • Help a neighbor Without being asked.
  • Outdoor movie night A sheet and a projector in the yard counts.
  • Pick up litter at a park
  • Play mini golf
  • Ride a Ferris wheel
  • Ride a train or a ferry
  • Shop a yard sale
  • Stop at a roadside stand
  • Take a day trip Home by bedtime.
  • Try a new playground
  • Visit a museum
  • Visit a relative
  • Visit a state or national park
  • Visit a zoo or aquarium
  • Watch a parade
  • Watch fireworks

How this list was compiled: Own work: an original list of summer activities written by the editors, each one a thing to do and mark off over the weeks of a school break, not a thing to spot. It has no brand names (ice pops, flying disc, mini golf, shaved ice), no alcohol and nothing that needs special equipment beyond a tent or a fishing rod. Clue lines are the editors' what-counts rules, except three facts checked on Wikipedia on 2026-09-19: the Perseid meteor shower peaks between 9 and 14 August each year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseids); fireflies are beetles that emit light mainly at twilight to attract mates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefly); and in the Northern Hemisphere the summer solstice, the day with the longest period of daylight, falls on June 20 or 21 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_solstice). No date for a single year is given. The two how-to lines (ice pops, ice cream in a bag) describe common kitchen methods in the editors' own words. Licence: own work