Bridal Shower Gift Bingo
Bingo on shower gift is a bridal shower game. Actually this game is known as bingo game, which is very popular for birthday parties (especially of kids and teens) or some informal occasions or get-togethers. Bingo game is a favorite game of almost everyone despite the age. This game in any form is easy to play and enjoyable, but the person, who prepares it in a more innovative form different from the usual one has very hard task to do.
You might know about the classic bingo game, which consists of numbers. If you are planning bingo on shower gift then you must do some preparation on your own. You must decide about the theme or topic of the bingo game.
You can keep any wedding related topic like:
- Places where the bride wants to go for honeymoon like Fiji, Hawaii, Bali, or Caribbean
- Gifts that the bride gets on bridal shower like coffee grinder, bake ware, recipe book, lingerie, or bath accessories
- The places where the bride visited
- Bride's favorite food
- Bride's favorite celebrities (again you can categorize these in Hollywood celebrities, political, or business)
- Bride's favorite colors
Now you have to make some preparations:
- 50 unique cards
- 1 caller card
- Instructions set
- Pens or markers according to the number of guests
- Gifts for winners (you will require around 12 gifts)
Draw 5x5 boxes (five rows and each row should have five boxes) on each card and write different names of gifts or places of honeymoon in each box on all the cards. Remember each card should be unique in combination of names. Write all these names on caller card. You can print these unique cards from internet. There are some sites, which allow printing bridal shower games. So, you can take this help of these sites to avoid confusion and hard work.
Now, let us see how to play bingo game for bridal shower.
The method of playing bridal bingo game should be the same as classic bingo game. Each guest should be provided with one unique card and pen or marker. If you want to let your guests take the bingo cards themselves, keep all cards in one box and pass the box to each of your guests and tell them to take one from the box. After everyone gets the cards, the caller should become active. The caller has to read names from caller's card.
While the caller is reading names from the card, every participant has to mark or cross the same name if it is present in their card. Like this, the person who completes the first row horizontally, diagonally, and vertically would be the winners of the game. If the someone completes the horizontal line first, the person should declared as winner at that time only and everyone should look for lines other than the first horizontal line. So, this way the game should be completed for each row and there would be five winners of five horizontal lines, two winner of diagonal lines, and five winners of five vertical lines. So, there would be total 12 winners.
You can give some simple gifts to these winners like chocolates or pens, or aromatic candles or scented soaps. You can think about more ideas for winners. The gifts you give to the winners should be different from the favor. For that you can talk with the bride in advance.
This game will take half-an-hour or more than that. Therefore, if you are planning some other games, select games like observation or safety pin or purse power or guess by touch only. If you have planned bridal shower only for two hours then you can combine only one game with the bingo on shower gift. If you are planning shower for 3 hours or more then you can combine 3 to 4 games with this game. So, plan wisely and according to the time you have planned for bridal shower games. Well planned bridal shower will help to execute the event perfectly and you will definitely get appreciation from the bride, her mother and the guests.