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My daughter is 5, and one of the items on the agenda for this year at school is to be able to identify all of the numbers from 1-100. She has already mastered the counting, but has trouble still with identifying random numbers. So, I thought BINGO would be a great way to help her learn them, while having fun!

First, here is a little pitch for using hybrid. I know a lot of people are still scared of it, but really, it is very powerful! On the left if the BINGO sheet that I have provided above, simply printed out on cardstock. (we will be working with this one in a minute) In the middle is that BINGO sheet, overlayed over some digital elements. Look how easy that is! All we would need to do for the middle sheet is trim the white edges off, mat it on some black, glue it on some cardboard and we are done!  On the right is the sheet of Bingo cards that I printed from this site: http://print-bingo.com/bingo-frame.php?cardSize=2x2 I printed them on cardstock to make them a little more sturdy, but you can print them on regular paper if you like, then simply cut them apart. You can print as many as you need. 

So, technically this project is hybrid any way you do it - since you are printing out the cards and the number board, but it is even easier if you print that number board on top of digital elements. then you could skip the whole first part of the tutorial. 

Ok, so now that we have our printed elements (the first and last from the photo above) printed on cardstock, it is time to make it look pretty!

First you will want 2 - strips of 1.75 inches each, adhered to the board as shown below. (I inked the edges before gluing them down) It's fine if they hang off the edge of the cardstock.

Next you want to fill in the spaces above and below the grid as shown below. Again I inked the edges. I don't have measurements here because you want them to fit perfectly between your side strips so you will need to do that measurement yourself, or just trim tiny bits off like I did until it fits. I worked on the side edges first, glued, then used my paper trimmer to just trim all the way across the top and bottom so that it is even.

Next I matted the square on some black cardstock, making it about a quarter of an inch larger on all sides. (not shown)

Now, we want this to be a little sturdy, so you will need a piece of chipboard or other cardboard. I used a dense non-corrugated cardboard that came in a previous ACOT package.

You will want to use mod podge or some other liquid glue to adhere the board to the cardboard. I put the adhesive on the cardboard since it was larger and I wanted to make sure to get all the edges. Then I used a scrap of paper to cover the excess glue, before putting my glass mat on top to hold it flat while it dried.

Now you will want to get out your coffee can. The lid is unnecessary so you can put that aside.

Now you need to measure the coffee can EXACTLY I made the paper stop at the metal strips so it would lay flat.

You want to cut both the cream patterned paper and the purple paper to that width. Here they are shown laying on top of one another - the purple is the full 12 inches long, the cream is much shorter.  Since 12 inches wouldn't go all the way around the can, we will use both in a way that makes the break look intentional. 

The cream paper with the frame on it will be centered on the front with the purple paper wrapping around. Notice that I left a little bit of extra on the edge of the cream paper, just to make certain that everything overlaps as it should.

Next I used my border punch on one end of the purple paper, before holding the two sheets up to judge the distance. I made sure to cut with a little bit of extra because I will punch that edge too. Then I punched the edge. 

Glue the cream paper to the can using a liquid glue like mod podge. Then check that you can get the purple paper centered the way you like it around the cream frame. if it overlaps too much, trim a little more off, and re-punch the border. It SHOULD overlap though. 

It is tough to see, but if you look closely, you can see where the ends of the purple paper are on the sides of the can.  Glue the purple paper down, adding more adhesive if necessary. I used a little dab of glossy accents on some of the punched borders that were sticking up. I like the glossy accents because the applicator is small and can get under the papers easily.

then it is time to embellish. I cut the BINGO letters from wood paper using my cricut. then I inked the edges before gluing them to a transparency. The transparency isn't really necessary, but I used it to get the letters lined up properly so that they fit over the frame on the paper. I used a border sticker around the bottom. For the ribbon, I glued the silver trim to the purple ribbon using my atg gun, before wrapping it around the can and carefully making a bow with it. Then I used a generous dab of fabritac to keep the bow in place. Around the top, first I cut one inch wide strips from the purple paper and punched them with my favorite bubble border punch. Then I ran a line of glue down the back of the strips and proceded to alternately make a fold and press it down. I, of course, needed multiple strips of paper to go all the way around the can, but it is easy to continue with the pleats without noticing a break. Simply make a fold on the end of the next strip and stick it down over the end of the previous strip. Finally I used a hot glue gun to glue the black  ruffle around the top of the can, and make the ruffle a little more secure. When I took this photo, I thought I was done embellishing, but I decided that it needed more.

I went back later and added the rosettes, the butterfly sticker on the right side, and some bling swirls that you can't see in this photo. I never seem to be able to finish a project without some machine sewing, so I sewed lines of zig zag stitching on the coordinating blue paper (you can see the lines of stitching in the photo above), then cut them out so that they were only a hair wider than the stitching. After inking them, I used fabritac to glue them between the black lace ruffle and the pleated paper, to give the illusion that I had sewn the paper down.

Now we will move on to the numbered pieces and the little squares used to cover the numbers that were called.

For the numbered pieces that will be drawn from the jar and place on the board to mark all the numbers that have been called, I printed the same Bingo board out onto a sheet of Patterned paper. (I forgot to add the letters here, you will want to add letters to your file first, or hopefully I will give you another file with the letters added. I had to go back and add them all by hand.)

To make the numbers more durable, yet able to be cut easily, I glued the sheet onto a cereal box. I meant to glue it onto the colored side of the box, so that the back would be plain cardboard. I messed up that part though, so I ended up gluing another piece of paper to the back side. It's pretty cool though, because now I have little chips with pretty paper on both sides and numbers on one side.

Anyway, so go ahead and mod podge that grid onto your cereal box. Then if you want paper on the back too, mod podge it to another sheet of paper.

Cover with something flat and heavy, and let dry well before cutting apart into small squares.

Meanwhile you can cut another sheet of paper into small squares to be used to cover your called numbers as shown below - simple cut the double sided paper to be the same size as the squares on your cards (or pretty close)

This is how the board looks with some called numbers on it -isn't that cute?!

Here is the class supply list: http://www.acherryontop.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=335&t=233048

Here is where you can get the files to print out:  http://www.4shared.com/document/DyZwSasd/bingo.html