'Tis the Season for Sharing!

Here is a fun and simple activity for your holiday music groups! Christmas Carol Bingo. You can use recordings (YouTube helps me in a pinch) or provide the musical cues yourself with live music. I print these on white cardstock and laminate. Groups members use bingo chips, beans, bingo daubers, or scraps of paper to cover the carols as they're used. I have small prizes that I give out, too, something simple like stickers, holiday Hershey's kisses, a mini holiday coloring book, or a small plush. I tweaked this idea originally found here.

Download Christmas Carol Bingo Version 1.0 here!

Included in this PDF are five different bingo cards and a list of the Christmas carols used on the cards, 25 in total. These are a mix of religious and secular carols, and only for Christmas--I will update with religious only and secular only versions, plus more diverse versions, eventually! :) Thanks for visiting!

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Northern Lights Adaptive Art Part Two!

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