Nativity Bingo Card Generator

About Nativity bingo

All 44 Nativity bingo words

Every entry from Angel Gabriel to Wooden crib, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop Camels if it does not suit your group, or add your own.

• A: Angel Gabriel, Angel wings
• B: Baby Jesus, Bethlehem
• C: Camels, Census
• D: Donkey
• F: Flock by night, Frankincense
• G: Gold, Good news, Gospel of Luke, Gospel of Matthew
• H: Heavenly host, Hillside
• I: Innkeeper
• J: Joseph
• K: King Herod
• L: Lambs, Lantern light, Long journey
• M: Magi, Manger, Mary, Myrrh
• N: Narrator, Nativity play, Nativity set, Nazareth, No room at the inn
• O: Ox
• P: Paper crown, Peace on Earth
• S: Sheep, Shepherd's crook, Shepherds, Stable, Star of Bethlehem, Straw, Swaddling clothes
• T: Tea towel headdress, Tinsel halo
• W: Wise men, Wooden crib

Nativity bingo at a glance

When to play Nativity bingo

How long Nativity bingo lasts

Simulated over 150 shuffled games on cards 1-60 of this set: the median first line arrives on call 13 with 30 players and on call 16 with 10, while a blackout takes 40 calls, roughly 7 minutes at 10 seconds a call.

How to host Nativity bingo

1. 1

   Print the Nativity cards

   Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with Narrator, Flock by night, Innkeeper, Myrrh and Tinsel halo.

2. 2

   Print the caller sheet

   All 44 entries appear on it in shuffled order, opening with Innkeeper, King Herod, Shepherd's crook, Swaddling clothes and Peace on Earth; tick each one as you read it out.

3. 3

   Read the story aloud in short sections and call each square as it appears; the Magi and King Herod come last, so the game builds to the end.

4. 4

   After a nativity play, let cast members call the squares for their own roles, such as the Innkeeper or the Narrator.

5. 5

   Ask children which gift the Wise men brought when Myrrh or Frankincense is called; short explanations help new words stick.

6. 6

   Call until someone shouts bingo

   With 30 cards, expect the first line near call 13 (Frankincense in this set's order) and a blackout near call 40; check the winner's squares against your ticked list.

Nativity bingo variations

• Nativity variation

  Story order bingo: players must mark squares in the order they happen in the story. A square called too early stays open until its place, so listeners learn the sequence from Census to Star of Bethlehem.

• Blackout round

  Card 1 needs all 24 squares, Narrator to Lantern light; on average one card fills after 43.2 of the 44 calls (98% of the deck).

• Quick 4x4 round

  A 4x4 card needs 16 of the 44 entries and no free space; one card is full after about 42.4 calls instead of 43.2.

First 15 calls of this Nativity set

Seed "nativity" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints. With these calls, card 11 of the first 30 completes the I column (Camels, Wooden crib, Tinsel halo, Innkeeper and Swaddling clothes) on call 15, and card 2 is the first full card on call 40.

Themes like Nativity bingo

Las Posadas bingo is the closest list: it shares 2 entries with this one, such as Shepherds and Donkey. For a longer game, paste both lists into the Edit words box; duplicates are removed automatically.

More Christmas bingo cards

Nativity bingo is one of 39 Christmas lists here, and the Christmas bingo ideas page sets all 39 side by side. Christmas bingo for kids is the closest fit for kids and family game nights and shares one entry with this list, Paper crown.