Get To Know Me Bingo

This icebreaker game will help your students (and you) get to know each other better. Give students the fun task of finding classmates who fits the descriptors on the game card. Play a quick version as bingo, or reward students for completing the entire card. Mecca also operate over 100 land based bingo halls throughout the UK, so you know you are in safe hands. Their online offering is one of the largest bingo websites in the UK. They have thousands of active players with dozens of bingo rooms to pick from, Our exclusive Britain’s Got Talent and The X Factor Bingo games are perfect if you love.

1. Getting To Know You Bingo Pdf
2. Basic Bingo Rules
3. Get To Know Me Bingo Instagram

When you think of family reunions do you get excited or get a headache? In the next few weeks we’ll be sharing some fun ideas that will help your family bond and keep things from getting boring.

When it comes to family reunion ice breakers, there’s a simple beauty to BINGO. Our Getting-to-Know You BINGO game loosens people up with some gentle competition and helps ease family members into conversations with people they haven’t seen in awhile.

Here’s What You Need:
1. At least 24 people
2. Family Bingo Sheet (FREE PRINTABLE!!)
3. Pencils for everyone
4. Small pieces of paper to write the name of each person playing
5. Hat or bowl to draw the names from
6. Prizes – we love giftcards for popular fast food/restaurants. Or buy some king-sized candy bars if you want to keep it simple (3-5 for your BINGO winners)

How the game goes:

1. As everyone comes in, have them write their name on a little slip of paper and put it into the bucket/bowl/hat that you’ll be drawing from.

2. Everyone playing bingo gets a customizable family bingo sheet. There is only one bingo board-and you only need one bingo board-because everyone will have different names written in those spaces, thus creating a unique board for everyone. If you have a 5-letter last name put that at the top instead of the word BINGO. If your name is longer you can shorten it then add an O. (For example: Mortenson is changed to MORTO.) If your name isn’t going to fit within 5 letters, we have a generic board (that says HOWDY) across the top that will work.

3. Allow 5-10 minutes for your participants to mingle getting family members
signatures on bingo squares that apply to them. (Each square will have a statement. For example: Likes to fish. Then Uncle Dean can sign his name there. Or : Has painted toenails. Your niece Heather can sign that.) You can only use a person’s signature once on your bingo sheet.

4. When everyone has their bingo sheet filled in with different signatures then the game begins. (Tell them to hurry up or your peeps will get bored.)

5. The bingo announcer pulls a name out of the bucket/bowl/hat with all of the names in it and reads it out loud. If a person has that name on their sheet they can put an X on that square (or use M&Ms or Skittles or Cheerios or whatever!!). If they don’t have that name they do nothing (or just moan). Keep drawing names and giving your participants time to see if that name is on their bingo sheet.

6. The game continues until the first person gets BINGO which means they completed a row, column, or diagonal with X’s. That winner is required to call out the name of your family bingo game ( for example-MORTO!) The winner comes to the front and says the statement from their bingo square along with the relative’s name who signed it. ( So, she would say “Likes to fish – Dean) She would do the same for every bingo square she put an X on (this helps your family learn about each other). If everything is accurate the winner gets to pick one of the gift cards.

7. If two people get Bingo at the same time, they both get a prize once their paper is verified. The game continues until you have given all the prizes away.

8. When the game seems to be dragging on too long wrap it up and move on to your next fun activity!

Here’s where you can find the FREE PRINTABLES! We’ve made one that is more suited for a youth activity (removed squares that say things like “is a grandparent”). Enjoy!!

So this one works if your name doesn’t fit within 5 spaces. It’s completely ready to go! Find the FREE PRINTABLE here.

If your last name works with 5 letters, you can download this, upload it in PicMonkey to add your name, and you’re ready to go! Find the FREE PRINTABLE here.

This is the more generic board that will work perfectly for youth groups. Find the FREE PRINTABLE here.

Have a great time! And be sure to check back next week for more Family Reunion planning tips and games!

Shari

Print 2 pages of Getting to Know You! Bingo Cards for free. Download a PDF with 2 free pages of bingo cards plus instructions and a randomized call sheet. Customize the events, add your own free space, change the BINGO header, or add a fun checkerboard, etc.

Using a browser, play with 2 pages of Getting to Know You! for free. You host a game and invite a guest via a link. If you enjoy the game, purchase more randomly generated pages below and invite all of your family, friends, coworkers!

Purchased packs are electronically delivered and contain either 10, 25, 50 or 100 randomly generated bingo cards of the 2 page free sample on this page. You may print these packs over and over again forever.

Host Instructions:

• Decide when to start and select your goal(s)
• Designate a judge to announce events randomly or as they happen
• Cross off events from the list when announced

Goals:

• First to get any line (up, down, left, right, diagonally)
• First to get the four corners
• First to get two diagonal lines through the middle (an 'X')
• First to get all squares

Guest Instructions:

• Check off events on your card as they occur
• If you complete a goal, shout 'Bingo!'. You've won!
• The judge decides in the case of disputes

FIND SOMEONE WHO...
introduced someone by the wrong name before	been to an outdoor rock concert	has never got a speeding ticket	has been to a Hawaiian Island	likes sushi
visited another continent	attended a professional baseball game	has had stitches	can play a musical instrument	can speak a foreign language
dislikes chocolate	played a sport in school	FREE	has passed out and had friends write all over your face	told an embarrassing story about yourself to others
has eaten escargot (snails)	has walked out of the bathroom with tp stuck to you	laughed so hard you peed	has fainted or thrown up in public	danced the 'Chicken Dance' at a wedding
has 2 or more pets	drove to Canada more than once	broke a bone and wore a cast	is afraid of spiders	has been arrested

This bingo card was created randomly from a total of 25 events:
attended a professional baseball game,been to an outdoor rock concert,broke a bone and wore a cast,can play a musical instrument,can speak a foreign language,danced the 'Chicken Dance' at a wedding,dislikes chocolate,drove to Canada more than once,has 2 or more pets,has been arrested,has been to a Hawaiian Island,has eaten escargot (snails),has fainted or thrown up in public,has had stitches,has never got a speeding ticket,has passed out and had friends write all over your face,has walked out of the bathroom with tp stuck to you,introduced someone by the wrong name before,is afraid of spiders,laughed so hard you peed,likes sushi,likes to quote Will Ferrell movies,played a sport in school,told an embarrassing story about yourself to others,visited another continent.
Host Instructions:

• Decide when to start and select your goal(s)
• Designate a judge to announce events randomly or as they happen
• Cross off events from the list when announced

Goals:

• First to get any line (up, down, left, right, diagonally)
• First to get the four corners
• First to get two diagonal lines through the middle (an 'X')
• First to get all squares

Guest Instructions:

• Check off events on your card as they occur
• If you complete a goal, shout 'Bingo!'. You've won!
• The judge decides in the case of disputes

FIND SOMEONE WHO...
likes sushi	has never got a speeding ticket	has eaten escargot (snails)	visited another continent	has passed out and had friends write all over your face
has been arrested	can play a musical instrument	has 2 or more pets	has walked out of the bathroom with tp stuck to you	danced the 'Chicken Dance' at a wedding
has been to a Hawaiian Island	told an embarrassing story about yourself to others	FREE	broke a bone and wore a cast	drove to Canada more than once
played a sport in school	has fainted or thrown up in public	attended a professional baseball game	introduced someone by the wrong name before	likes to quote Will Ferrell movies
has had stitches	can speak a foreign language	is afraid of spiders	been to an outdoor rock concert	dislikes chocolate

This bingo card was created randomly from a total of

Getting To Know You Bingo Pdf

25 events:
attended a professional baseball game,been to an outdoor rock concert,broke a bone and wore a cast,can play a musical instrument,can speak a foreign language,danced the 'Chicken Dance' at a wedding,dislikes chocolate,drove to Canada more than once,has 2 or more pets,has been arrested,has been to a Hawaiian Island,has eaten escargot (snails),has fainted or thrown up in public,has had stitches,has never got a speeding ticket,has passed out and had friends write all over your face,has walked out of the bathroom with tp stuck to you,introduced someone by the wrong name before,is afraid of spiders,laughed so hard you peed,likes sushi,likes to quote Will Ferrell movies,played a sport in school,told an embarrassing story about yourself to others,visited another continent.
Host Instructions:

• Decide when to start and select your goal(s)
• Designate a judge to announce events randomly or as they happen
• Cross off events from the list when announced

Goals:

• First to get any line (up, down, left, right, diagonally)
• First to get the four corners
• First to get two diagonal lines through the middle (an 'X')
• First to get all squares

Basic Bingo Rules

Guest Instructions:

• Check off events on your card as they occur
• If you complete a goal, shout 'Bingo!'. You've won!
• The judge decides in the case of disputes

Get To Know Me Bingo Instagram