Earth Day Bingo: free printable cards

Printable Earth Day bingo cards about recycling, nature and taking care of the planet.

Earth Day falls on April 22, and this bingo game is an easy way to review recycling, conservation and nature vocabulary with a class. The squares mix actions students can take with the parts of nature they protect.

Play it as a called game, or turn it into a challenge where students mark squares for things they do during Earth Week. It pairs well with a schoolyard cleanup or a tree planting.

One of the 5×5 cards this template makes. Every printed card gets its own layout.

How to play

• Give each student a card.
• Call squares from the call sheet, or mark actions completed during Earth Week.
• First to complete a row wins.
• Talk about one square from each winning row.

The 40 squares in this template

A 5×5 card with a free space uses 24 of them, so each card gets a different mix. Edit, add or delete any of these after you open the template.

1. Recycle
2. Reuse
3. Reduce
4. Compost
5. Plant a Tree
6. Solar Panel
7. Wind Turbine
8. Water Bottle
9. Turn Off Lights
10. Ocean
11. Forest
12. Bicycle
13. Walk
14. Litter Pickup
15. Bee
16. Butterfly
17. Earth
18. Garden
19. Seeds
20. Rain Barrel
21. Paper Bag
22. Cloth Bag
23. Rainforest
24. Coral Reef
25. Polar Bear
26. Clean Air
27. Fresh Water
28. Bird House
29. Worms
30. Flowers
31. Sun
32. Glass Jar
33. Carpool
34. Leaves
35. Mountain
36. River
37. Wildlife
38. Short Shower
39. Nature Walk
40. Recycle Bin

Printing tips

• For a group of up to 30 you can print everything free. Choose 2 cards per page for a standard size, or 4 per page to save paper.
• Turn on the call sheet. It lists every square in a random order with a checkbox, so the caller never repeats one.
• Add a few more squares than the 24 a card needs. The more entries, the more the cards differ.
• Pick “Save as PDF” in the print dialog if you want to email the cards or print them later.

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