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How to make Bingo Cards

A lovely idea for practicing vocabulary or curriculum wordbanks.

The best thing is that after you have made a suitable grid, you can save it as a template
for further games. Just delete the words and re type with the new vocabulary.
The supporting pictures will appear automatically.

Look in the templates section for suitable templates already in Writing with Symbols.

Open up the Grids for Printing option

Single click on New Grid and in the window type in 4 cells across and 4 down and the measurements 260 across and 180 down. The grid will open up on the screen. Type in the cells in the usual way

To make the lines more distinct hold ctrl and click in the top left hand square and still holding down ctrl click again in the bottom right hand cell. This should highlight all the cells in the bingo card Go to Grids..and then Set Wall Thickness. Increase the All Walls section to 5

screen shot of setting the wall thickness

Ctrl and click will take the highlighting off the cells.

To colour any of the cells click in a single cell (or group of cells as before) go to Options on the drop down menus and choose Background Colour to colour in the cells

To make your game last longer, try laminating it. A couple of holes in the top means you can keep the games in a file for future use. Laminating or putting the game inside a plastic wallet means you can use a dry marker pen to cross out the items when called. This would be so much easier than covering with scraps of paper and rubs out quickly with a cloth afterwards.

Change the words quickly and easily by deleting them and re typing. You could use this for collections of nouns, book characters, high/medium frequency words, learning languages or simple initial sounds

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