How to Make Your Own Bingo Cards

There’s no need for us to be humble here – Paddy Power’s played a huge part in the meteoric rise of bingo. Our cutting edge games have brought the bingo buzz to more people than ever before, and we’ll continue to drop new and fresh titles in the future.

With bingo firmly back in the mainstream, a lot of people ask us about the best ways to make their own cards. Doing this at home can be great craic, and it’s well worth making a few sets if you’re a bingo fan. Follow our top tips here to get cracking.

How to Make Your Own Handmade Bingo Cards at Home

If you love crafting and creating your own things, making some personalised bingo cards could be a great activity. It’s a solid option for people who host bingo games at home, as the handmade factor can bring a personal touch that players appreciate. If you’ve never done this before, though, you may need some tips and tricks to pull it off. We’re here to help, and you should hopefully find some ideas you like in this guide.

The most important thing to remember about bingo cards is that they should all be different. That can be the tricky part, especially when you’re trying to make them by hand. In the next few sections, we’ll give you some advice about how to achieve that.

Homemade bingo cards at home

Use an Online Bingo Card Generator

In the old days before the internet, it would have been quite a laborious process trying to randomise all the cards yourself. As with many things, the online world has made this process a much simpler one. There are various tools online for generating bingo cards, and you can use these as a starting point to making your own sets.

There are quite a few online bingo card generators out there for you to choose from, so we advise that you check out a few to see which one takes your fancy. They have a few nifty features too that can do a lot of the hard work for you. For instance, if you want, you can choose a theme or a template and make cards that fit with that. That option could be useful if you’re hosting a Christmas bingo night or an Easter-themed daytime bingo session.

If you want to handcraft the bingo cards yourself, you could use the bingo card generator to get the numbers and then copy these onto your own specially made cards. It all depends on how creative you’re feeling – so which option are you going to choose?

Themed Bingo Cards

Anyone who’s played bingo with us here at Paddy Power will know that we absolutely love themes. Head over to our bingo page and see for yourself – it’s all about diversity here. There are themes like Deal or No Deal Bingo, Cash Cubes, Diamond Room – you name it!

If you’re going to make your own bingo cards, it’s going to be much more fun if you stick to a theme. Holiday themes are a great go-to, especially if you’re hosting a bingo event at a certain time of year.

One way to make things even better, though, would be to create original bingo cards that are tailored towards your audience. If you’re hosting a more intimate game, making cards that appeal to different people’s personalities could be a great touch.

Bingo Cards DIY Step by Step

Are you filled with excitement now? We bet you’re ready to start making your own fun bingo cards at home now, aren’t you? To make things easy for you, here’s a simple step-by-step guide to create some yourself:

1. To get started, you’ll need to pick up some supplies. Obviously, card is essential. But you could also pick up some decorating pens and other stationary like rulers that might come in handy.
2. Decide on your theme and think about what colours and images match with that. You could print some pictures off or draw them on the cards yourself.
3. Create a 5×5 grid with 25 squares if you want to make a traditional card. Alternatively, you could make your own smaller or larger grid size.
4. Write numbers or words on the grids – if you’re not copying from the online bingo card generator, remember to leave a lot of the squares blank.
5. Colour the cards and add any other decorations you want to include to fit with your theme.
6. Make multiple cards and make sure they are all different.
7. Get ready to host your special bingo night!

DYI Bingo Cards

Excel Bingo Cards

For those of you with less creativity and a bit of technical prowess, you may want to explore the idea of making excel bingo cards. Using the powerful spreadsheet tool can lead to some wild ways to make unique cards. The app has its own bingo card generator, but you can also use formulas on the spreadsheet to customise things further.

For example, you can use the randomise feature on Excel to put word or numbers in different places. If you want to do this, all you need to do is set up a grid and input some bingo terms or numbers. Then, randomise the content across multiple cards.

Hopefully we’ve covered everything for you here, and you’re now ready to make some cool bingo cards, whether that be handmade or online.

If you’d prefer all the work to be done for you and play some ready-made bingo games, you know Paddy Power has a diverse selection of online bingo games waiting for you!

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