Ocean Bingo

Last Updated on June 26, 2025

A printable ocean bingo game is perfect when you are planning a tropical themed party.

You’ll love printable activities for kids because they save you time and money and we all know how important that is for a family. Plus, they’re easy to set up and can turn an ordinary afternoon into something a little more special.

This ocean bingo game is not only fun, but it’s also an easy way to keep kids entertained without screens. Whether you’re hosting a summer birthday party, planning a beach-themed classroom day, or just looking for a quiet indoor activity, bingo is a simple game that kids of all ages can enjoy.

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• Interesting Ocean Facts
• Ocean Themed Party Ideas
• Creative Ways to Use the Ocean Bingo Game
• Mom Life - Made Easier
• Equipment Needed / Helpful Tools for Printables
• Download the Printable Ocean Bingo
• Printable FAQs
• Ocean Bingo Prize Ideas
• Additional Summer Fun Ideas

Interesting Ocean Facts

The ocean is a massive, fascinating place! It’s home to all kinds of amazing creatures, from tiny plankton to giant blue whales, and scientists are still discovering new things about it every day.

While the kids are playing this printable ocean bingo game, you can share some interesting ocean facts with them between calls:

• About 96.5% of all the water on Earth is in the oceans and they cover about 70% of the Earth’s surface.
• The Pacific Ocean is the biggest ocean and it covers about 30% of the Earth.
• The ocean is deep—the average depth is 12,100 feet.
• The Mid-Oceanic Ridge mountain range is around 40,390 miles long. It is the longest mountain range on the planet, and it’s found underwater (thus the name).
• Scientists estimate that about one million species of animals live in the ocean and so far only 5% of the oceans have been explored—so there’s lots more to be found.
• The ocean produces about 70% of the oxygen that we breathe.
• The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet, and it lives in the ocean—it can be over 90 feet long.
• Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.
• Some fish can glow in the dark thanks to a special ability called bioluminescence.
• Coral reefs are like underwater cities, filled with colorful fish, sea turtles, and even sharks.

Ocean Themed Party Ideas

If you and your family love all things beach related, you’ll love having an ocean-themed party. It’s a party theme that works for both boys and girls.

Here are some more fun ocean-themed party ideas from food to decor and everything in between:

• A fun craft for the party would be this hanging jellyfish craft. It is quick, easy and adorable.
• Ocean Animal Sensory Bottles are another fun craft idea that also make a great party favor.
• Ocean Coloring Pages are a great way to keep kids occupied when you are having a long party and they need something calming to do or it’s a great activity to do while you wait for everyone to arrive at the party.
• If you want to keep snacks REALLY simple just buy goldfish or whale crackers. It is also easy to find ocean-themed fruit snacks.
• It is really fun to have kids decorate their own Under the Sea Graham Crackers for a special treat.
• You can always make sandwiches and cut them out with ocean cookie cutters for a simple but fun food item.
• Grab a piece of poster board and draw a big octopus on it. Then the kids can play pin the tentacle on the octopus!
• An ocean-themed party means that water type games will be popular. Water balloon fights, playing in the sprinkler or even doing a slip n’ slide would be a blast.
• Ocean bowling is a simple game—grab some plastic water bottles and add some blue food coloring so the water in the bottles is blue. The kids can use a coconut to bowl or they can use a plastic bowling ball.

Creative Ways to Use the Ocean Bingo Game

This game is fun to just play like a regular bingo game, however, if you want to get more mileage out of it by changing up the game or if you’re planning it for a large group (like for your ocean themed party), here are some fun variations:

• Use the bingo game as one of several rotating activity stations at a beach or ocean-themed party or classroom event.
• Hide ocean-themed toys, cutouts, or pictures around the room or yard. As kids find them, they mark off the matching image on their bingo card.
• Read an ocean-themed book (like The Rainbow Fish or Commotion in the Ocean) and have kids listen for words or animals that appear on their bingo cards. They mark them off as they hear them.
• Act out animals from the bingo cards and let kids guess what they are before marking them on their boards.
• Play ocean sounds (like whale songs or dolphin clicks) or short clips of ocean animals, and kids have to guess what they are and find them on the board.

Equipment Needed / Helpful Tools for Printables

Printer: This one is a great budget printer. If you’re willing to spend just a little more though, this is a better option. And if you’re looking for an all-in-one home office machine, this one does it all, has high reviews and includes 2 years of ink.

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Printer paper or cardstock: If you’re printing for one-time, quick use, print on regular printer paper. If you need the printout to hold up to being handled often or if you plan to laminate it to use it multiple times, choose cardstock.

Laminator: Laminating your printable is an inexpensive way to use it multiple times. Just use dry erase markers and wipe off when you’re done so you can use it again!  Alternately, you can cover the printable with clear contact paper to achieve the same thing or place the printable in clear page protectors.

Binder or Folder: If you’re using page protectors for your printables, binders are such an easy way to keep them together and organized. I love this colorful set. If you prefer to stick with standard white though, this set is highly rated and very affordable. And if you need larger binders, this set is terrific. If you go with folders, I like these.

Storage boxes: I like to keep a collection of coloring pages and activity sheets for kids in these plastic storage boxes that I pull out whenever I need to keep kids occupied.

Hole punch: If you don’t use page protectors but want to use binders to organize your printables, a hole puncher will be your best friend. This is the one you want if you’ll be punching holes in several pages at a time and want to do so easily. And this bargain option is ideal if you don’t mind limiting your hole punching to 2-3 pages at a time.

Clipboard: I love this clipboard for on-the-go with the kids. It has built in storage for both printables and markers or pencils. This one stands up like an easel so it perfect for holding the recipe you’ve printed out and are making or the game board. These colorful clipboards are great for holding individual game cards.

Download the Printable Ocean Bingo

This ocean bingo set has six different cards and a calling card available to download and print off.

You can have the kids use bingo daubers to mark the spots or you can use buttons, beans or even shells would be a fun option.

I like to print off several sets of these bingo cards so the kids can play multiple games!

Fill in the form below to download your free Ocean Bingo cards.

Printable FAQs

Ocean Bingo Prize Ideas

Good prizes are vital to a fun bingo game for kids. If you are playing ocean bingo then you need to have some ocean prizes.

Here are some fun ideas for bingo prizes.

• Water toys like squirt guns, water blasters, etc. make great bingo prizes.
• Kids love seashells and you can order really nice and unique shells to use as prizes.
• Beach balls are a fun and cheap prize idea.
• Flip flops, beach towels, and sunglasses are other easy ideas.

Additional Summer Fun Ideas

Keep the summer fun going strong for you and your family with these other free ideas, recipes and printables.

• Summer Word Search for Kids: This printable summer word search for kids is fun and educational. A great activity for kids to keep them busy on a hot summer day.
• Printable Dinosaur Bingo Game For Kids: Hosting a dinosaur-themed birthday party or playdate? Download this FREE Dinosaur Bingo printable and keep kids entertained with a fun, screen-free activity!
• Printable Tangram Objects Fun Activities For Kids: These printable tangram objects are great puzzles to complete. A kids activity that will keep their mind active and they will enjoy it too!
• Wendy’s Frosty Recipe: This Wendy’s Frosty Recipe is one recipe you don’t want to miss! They’re incredibly easy to make, and cheaper than buying them.
• Banana Pudding Poke Cake: The best Banana Pudding Poke Cake you’ll ever make! Moist cake infused with creamy banana pudding, topped with whipped cream, banana and vanilla wafers.
• Instant Pot Peach Cobbler: Instant Pot Peach Cobbler is a quicker way to make this old fashioned dessert without losing any of the sweet flavor. It’s easy to make!