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How to Create Your Own Music Bingo Cards for a Studio

Creating specialty bingo cards to liven up a class, conference, or promotional event can serve as both an icebreaker and an educational tool. Building bingo cards is simple, and the novelty of such a fun item adds an extra dimension to your business or event. Whether you use templates and suggestions from a website or create your own from the ground up, customized bingo cards are fun, entertaining, and inexpensive. Use these music-themed cards for your studio or fill in your own music terms and people.

Things You'll Need

  • Computer
  • Text editing software
  • Publishing software
  • Internet access
  • Cardstock
  • Patterned paper
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Instructions

    • 1

      Purchase a program such as Bingo Card Creator or use the Card Creator free trial. Tools for Educators and Print-Bingo provide free templates and can generate bingo cards with numbers, predetermined word lists, your own word lists, or completely blank grids.

    • 2

      Make a word list with a minimum of 24 words. Traditional bingo cards use numbers 1 through 75 and include a free space. Any list with at least 24 words--25 without a free space--will suffice. The more words or terms you use, the more difficult your game will be, making it last longer.

    • 3

      Purchase cardstock or heavy paper for printing the bingo cards. Patterned paper in a music theme or simple colored paper will add a decorative flair to the cards, but plain white paper may be more readable. Compare different types of paper with sizes of bingo cards--a full-sheet bingo card, because the text will be bigger, may work better on printed paper than will a small bingo card.

    • 4

      Create a 5-square by 5-square grid using the Card Creator, templates, or editing software. This can be done using "Draw table" or a similar function. You may want to change the border of the grid to make it darker, thicker, or patterned.

    • 5

      Fill the squares with terms from your word list. You might use musical terminology, genres, songs, types of dances, or a list of instruments. You could also use recording artists, particularly those from a specific studio or record label.

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