Mexican Christmas bingo for your posada: a Christmas lotería with its own 54 cards —La Piñata, El Ponche, El Nacimiento, Los Reyes Magos… Choose how many boards you need, add a title and download the PDF. Free, no sign-up, and just as good for the family posada as for Spanish class in December.
Free, no sign-up, no watermark. No two boards are the same.
Just the cards? Download the Christmas deck as a PDF.
The posada season runs nine nights, so a deck printed on card stock gets a lot of use.
Every card is a word of a Mexican Christmas, so a round of lotería is vocabulary practice that kids ask to repeat. Use the 3×3 boards with the little ones, print one per student (two per page saves half the paper) and stop on a card now and then to talk about the traditions: why the piñata has seven points, what the pilgrims ask for at the posada, or how El Tejocote and La Caña end up in El Ponche. A few of the words in the deck:
Play the traditional deck on your phones: the online lotería caller calls the 54 classic cards aloud in Spanish —El Gallo, La Sirena, El Catrín— and everyone opens a board on their own phone. Their names in English are in lotería cards in English, and for November there is a Day of the Dead lotería to print, like the baby shower lotería.
Yes. The PDF is built in your browser and downloads with no sign-up and no watermark. The 54 cards to cut out come in the same file.
54 cards of a Mexican Christmas: La Piñata, La Posada, El Nacimiento, Los Reyes Magos, El Ponche, Los Buñuelos, La Nochebuena, La Rosca de Reyes, El Aguinaldo and 45 more. The names are printed in Spanish; this page lists each one in English. Each board has 16 of them, or 9 on the 3×3 boards.
One per player. For a posada of 20 to 30 people, make 30 boards: you can make up to 60 in a single PDF and no two are alike.
Yes. Choose the 3×3 boards: nine bigger cards and quick rounds. The title you type —“Spanish 2, Period 3”— is printed on top of every board, and with two boards per page you use half the paper.
Like bingo with pictures: the caller draws the cards one by one and says their names, and players mark them on their board. The first to complete the agreed pattern —a row, the four corners or the full board— shouts ¡Lotería!
Yes. It works well to hand out the gifts: whoever shouts ¡Lotería! picks first.
¿En español? Lotería navideña para imprimir.