u/Ill-Customer-3781

Two years ago I inherited family Christmas stockings from my MIL (think 16 nieces and nephews).

Last Christmas I did a test balloon of Christmas Bingo - everyone loved doing bingo and getting prizes after Christmas dinner. This year I am going for it - fill your own Christmas stockings with BINGO prizes.

The kids are mostly 5th grade through college aged. But bingo will also include adults. I have EVERYTHING as prizes and have been collecting clearance items all year

Area rugs
3 ft light up santa
beach towels
$5 & $10 gift cards
candy
candles
portable chargers, charging cables & plugs
Snacks (bags of chips, beef jerky) will buy in December
12 packs of soda
Owalla & Starbucks water bottles

Everyone Is going to win, everyone Is leaving with a stocking of stuff

has anyone done anything like this? What advice do you have?

(pic is from BINGO that we did with 4 families during spring break)

I have been tossing around an idea of doing a Christmas Bingo for stocking stuffers.

Details

We have about 12 "kids" who get stockings (ages 24 to 5. The majority are in the tweens and teens). My MIL did the stockings for all of them and spent about $50 per kid. Unfortunately she passed away this past January and I'll be inheriting the stockings.

So my idea is to have BINGO for stocking stuffers because IMO kids get the stocking stuffers which are filled with kinda junk, dump it out and then move on. It last for all of 4 minutes then the kids are back on devices. I'd love to hear if anyone has done anything like this.

Last night I tested out my idea by doing BINGO at a party (we had 27 people, about 18 kids ages 4-14) and it worked out pretty well. The kids that weren't into BINGO stayed to get a prize that they wanted and moved on. Others stayed THE WHOLE TIME.

How to keep the people who checked out engaged? (We did multiple wins per card and you can trade up your prizes for the "Top Shelf" prizes).

I made a "rule board"

BINGO is a game of luck, not skill. You will eventually get lucky if you don't quit
Have fun
Three wins and you are out.

I bought prizes throughout the year, mostly on super clearance or things I got for free (I framed 3 pictures in frames I had gotten for free that morning...and they were the first to go!)

Okay, so I'd like any advice you have - prizes, rules, experience! Thank you!

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