(Make your own) Music BINGO!

Music BINGO is a lot of fun, and offers the therapist a quick way to increase participation, elevate mood, build rapport, increase attention to task, and facilitate socialization. Encourage players to Name-That-Tune! Some may sing, some may dance!

I have made a BINGO template (for Mac users through Pages, and Windows users through Word) so that it very quick and easy to plug patient preferred songs into 26 different but equal BINGO sheets. Whenever you use the template, the document will automatically save as a new document; you may want to change the bottom left numbers to signify alternate versions.

Spend a few minutes compiling a playlist of 52 songs set on shuffle and then Find and "Replace All" AAA with, i.e., "Break On Through To The Other Side" through replacing 026 with "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." If playing with a manipulative crowd, you may also want to bring the front page and mark which artists/songs have been played.