Farm animal bingo for kids: twenty-six picture cards to print, with cow, pig and sheep and rat on bright cards for preschool, kindergarten and parties. Print up to 200 different cards with calling cards to cut out, or play online, where each picture is read aloud. Free, with no sign-up.
Farm animal bingo: printable cards and online game
Below is the farm bingo printable set: a 4 by 4 card with words, a 3 by 3 picture-only card, the calling cards and the online game.
How to play farm animal bingo
Give each child a card, draw a calling card and say the word, and children cover that picture if it is on their card. For a harder game, give the clue instead and let them work out the word: “Gives milk” is the cow, and “A tall crop” is the corn. The first child to cover a full row, column or diagonal calls bingo and reads the covered pictures back to check.
Farm bingo printable: win patterns to try
One line, four corners, two lines and blackout all work with this pack, and the picture bingo for kids page has the table of patterns. A blackout on a 5 by 5 card covers 24 of this pack’s 26 pictures, so that game lasts until almost the whole pack has been called.
All 26 pictures in the farm animal bingo pack
These are the 26 pictures that can appear on a card. The word column is what the game says aloud and prints under each picture, and the last column gives a clue to talk about.
| Picture | Word | Group | Clue to talk about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐄 | cow | Animal | Gives milk |
| 🐖 | pig | Animal | Loves mud |
| 🐑 | sheep | Animal | Gives wool |
| 🐐 | goat | Animal | Gives milk and climbs |
| 🐓 | rooster | Animal | Crows at sunrise |
| 🐔 | hen | Animal | Lays eggs |
| 🐣 | chick | Animal | A baby hen |
| 🦆 | duck | Animal | Swims in the pond |
| 🐎 | horse | Animal | Pulls carts and gives rides |
| 🐕 | dog | Animal | Guards and herds |
| 🐈 | cat | Animal | Catches mice |
| 🐇 | rabbit | Animal | Lives in a hutch |
| 🚜 | tractor | Machine | Pulls plows and trailers |
| 🌽 | corn | Crop | A tall crop |
| 🥚 | egg | Farm food | Laid by hens |
| 🥛 | milk | Farm food | From cows and goats |
| 🍎 | apple | Crop | Grows in the orchard |
| 🥕 | carrot | Crop | Grows underground |
| 🌻 | sunflower | Crop | Tall flower grown for seeds |
| 🐝 | bee | Insect | Makes honey and pollinates crops |
| 🦃 | turkey | Animal | A large farm bird |
| 🐁 | mouse | Visitor | Nibbles stored grain |
| 🏡 | farmhouse | Building | Where the farmer lives |
| 🌾 | wheat | Crop | Ground into flour |
| 🍯 | honey | Farm food | Made by bees |
| 🐀 | rat | Visitor | A pest that eats grain |
The 26 pictures fall into these groups:
| Group | Number | Which ones |
|---|---|---|
| Animal | 13 | cow, pig, sheep, goat, rooster, hen, chick, duck, horse, dog, cat, rabbit and turkey |
| Crop | 5 | corn, apple, carrot, sunflower and wheat |
| Farm food | 3 | egg, milk and honey |
| Visitor | 2 | mouse and rat |
| Machine | 1 | tractor |
| Insect | 1 | bee |
| Building | 1 | farmhouse |
Wikipedia’s agriculture article describes how farms grow crops and raise animals for food.
Old MacDonald bingo: sing along
Old MacDonald bingo is the easiest way to add singing: for each animal you call, sing a verse with its sound, so “Old MacDonald had a farm” gets a new animal every time. Children listen for their animal, cover it and join the chorus.
How many different farm animal bingo cards are there?
Cards are built from this pack’s 26 pictures in random order. The table shows how many different cards that makes:
| Card size | Pictures | Free space | Different layouts | Different sets of pictures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 × 3 | 8 | free star in the middle | 62,990,928,000 | 1,562,275 |
| 4 × 4 | 16 | no free space | 111,136,315,345,735,680,000 | 5,311,735 |
| 5 × 5 | 24 | free star in the middle | 201,645,730,563,302,817,792,000,000 | 325 |
Play farm animal bingo online
Press Create game on a tablet or phone and share the link: each picture is read aloud and children tap it on their own card. The guide to playing bingo online with friends covers hosting.
Farm theme activities preschool: farm animal bingo ideas
Farm bingo is popular for preschool farm themes and teaches where food comes from, and Old MacDonald songs fit naturally. Try these ways to turn the game into a lesson:
- Old MacDonald: sing a verse for each animal you call, with the animal sound.
- Farm to table: ask where each food comes from: milk from cows, eggs from hens, honey from bees.
- Farm jobs: talk about what the tractor, the rooster and the dog do on a farm.
- Farm trip: play before or after a visit to a farm or a petting zoo.
- Baby animals: match the chick, the lamb, the calf and the piglet with their parents.
- Sort it: make piles of animals, crops, foods and machines from the called pictures.
Farm animal bingo: frequently asked questions
Which pictures are in the farm animal bingo pack?
There are 26: cow, pig, sheep, goat, rooster, hen, chick, duck, horse, dog, cat, rabbit, tractor, corn, egg, milk, apple, carrot, sunflower, bee, turkey, mouse, farmhouse, wheat, honey and rat.
Which group has the most pictures in farm animal bingo?
Animal is the biggest group with 13 of the 26 pictures: cow, pig, sheep, goat, rooster, hen, chick, duck, horse, dog, cat, rabbit, turkey. The next biggest is Crop, with 5.
Which pictures are easy to mix up?
Chick, hen and rooster, sheep and goat, and mouse and rat are the pairs to talk about first, and cow, pig and horse are easy to confuse in a quick drawing. Talk through the differences before the first game, then use the clue column to check that everyone has the right word.
Which card sizes does the farm animal bingo pack support?
A 3 by 3 card uses 8 of the 26 pictures, a 4 by 4 card uses 16 and a 5 by 5 card uses 24, so every card is a different mix.
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