Chinese New Year Bingo Free Printable! Year of the Horse

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Chinese New Year Bingo

We have shared Chinese New Year Printables since the Year of the Monkey in 2016. These printables are updated annually to reflect that year’s zodiac animal.

Chinese New Year begins on 17 February 2026, marking the Year of the Horse.

Your Chinese zodiac is Horse if you were born in one of these years: 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, and 2026.

The free bingo pack includes everything you need to play in small groups of up to 12 players. We have updated the horse graphic on the cards to match our Free Build A Horse Printable (coming soon!).

For those hosting larger groups, we’ve got you covered! Our Purple Pumpkin Printables Shop offers a Chinese New Year’s Bingo Game suitable for up to 36 players.

This expanded version of the printable game with 24 [additional, different] cards ensures everyone can join the fun, making it the perfect addition to Chinese New Year celebrations.

Included in This Free Printable Bingo Cards Set

This fun bingo game is for 2 to 12 players and features 12 unique bingo cards. Included in this Chinese New Year Bingo printable set are:

• 12 Chinese New Year Bingo Cards (full page and half page)
• 2 sets of Bingo Tokens (full and half page)
  • The bingo cards and tokens have the same layouts but different sizes.
• 5 Chinese New Year Bingo Calling Sheets (cut each sheet into individual cards)
  • Calling cards have a text description of each image.
• BONUS! In addition to free printable Chinese New Year bingo cards, we offer a bonus set of digital cards.
• This is a great way to play from afar using services like Zoom.
• Digital cards can also save printer ink! Play on your phone or tablet and use the edit function to mark off the cards.
• Print off the game boards you want to use. The full-size bingo boards might be more suitable for little kids and senior players.

Colorful Bingo Cards

The colorful cards are filled with fun pictures of Chinese culture related to the Lunar New Year Spring Festival.

This includes Red Envelopes, lucky bamboo, Firecrackers, traditional foods, and the Jade Emperor, who decided the order of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.

There are two sets of animals in this free printable Chinese New Year bingo game—all of the buildable animals we’ve created so far, which, when called out, read Year of the Horse, Year of the Snake, Year of the Dragon, Year of the Rabbit, Year of the Dog, etc., as well as red paper cutouts of each of the Chinese zodiac signs.

If you are planning a party or Chinese Banquet, be sure to take a look at these 50+ Delicious Recipes for Chinese New Year.

How To Set Up The Bingo Game

• You can download the free printable game file to your device (the purple download box is at the bottom of this post).
• Print the bingo boards in the size you require. If printing the small cards, cut the page in half so each player has one.
• Print and cut the bingo call sheet along the lines, fold the cards in half and in half again, and place them in a bowl.
• Print and cut the bingo tokens if you are using them—each player needs 25
• Alternatively, if you don’t want to print out the tokens, you can use dot markers or bingo markers (also called bingo daubers) to mark off each image as it is called.
• You could also use Bingo Chips or other small items to cover the festive bingo cards.

Tips for Best Results

• For the best experience, print your free bingo cards on white card stock or good-quality regular paper.
• If you want to use them year after year, laminating them is a great way to make them durable and compatible with dry-erase markers.
• If you laminate the calling cards, shuffle them, and draw them like playing cards.

How to Play Chinese New Year Picture Bingo:

If you don’t know how to play bingo, here is a quick rundown.

• Assign someone to be the bingo caller.
• All players receive their own bingo cards and a set of tokens (if using) or a bingo dauber.
• Each card has a FREE SPACE in the center. Players can mark this off at the start of the game.
• Decide the winning straight line(s): horizontal lines, vertical lines, two lines, or diagonal lines. Other winning combos are four corners or a full board for a Full House.
• The bingo caller pulls out one of the calling cards and calls it out to the players.
• You can hold up the cards to show players the image they need to mark on their cards.
• The players then cover that picture on their bingo cards.
• The winner is the first to complete the winning line(s) and shouts BINGO!
• For added fun, hand out prizes for each winning sequence, with a grand prize for a Full House.

How To Play Virtual Bingo

• The digital versions of our printable bingo cards allow you to play online with friends and family via services like Zoom.
• Send each player a different digital bingo card that they can save to their phone or tablet and use to play this fun game.
• Play the game as usual, calling out the bingo images, and have players mark off their digital cards with the edit/markup feature available on most phones and tablets.
• Alternatively, they can print their own bingo cards and play the traditional way.
• You can download the Single Cards in the download area. Please note that the cards are graphic files that can be resized and printed to fit your paper size.
• Each bingo card is available as a single page, so all players can receive a different one. These single files are zipped up in a ZIP file, which you can unzip using Winzip—usually found on most computers. We zip and open our files with WinRAR.

More Bingo

Want to play bingo for other seasonal holidays? Grab these now and have them ready for when it is time to celebrate!

• Free Printable Easter Bingo Game
• Free Printable St. Patrick’s Day Bingo
• Free Printable Halloween Bingo Game

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