Let’s play Loteria! Kids of all ages and families will love playing Lotería together. Not only is it a super fun game, but it can double as an educational one. Your kids will be able to learn a new game and a new language with our free printable loteria game for kids. It is always fun to explore new cultures and using Loteria is a great way! Play Loteria at home or in the classroom.
LoterIA For Kids
Cards games are a fun way for children to learn facts. Lotería is a Mexican game that will help your child learn vocabulary words in the Spanish language. Learning more than one language is a wonderful gift we can give to our children and in our day and age it’s not hard to find ways to integrate some language learning fun into their schedules. You don’t even have to speak the language to start introducing your child to some basic words in Spanish.
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One of the fun ways you can do this is through play, music, and story time. These are three activities most kids enjoy. I am going to share with you a fun game that will help stimulate speech in Spanish, and it’s a fun game called Lotería.
What is lotería?
Lotería is kind of like bingo, but with pictures instead of numbers. It’s a game that’s been enjoyed for generations and is perfect for playing with kids of all ages, even if they are young and can’t read yet, they can definitely see the pictures! It’s a fun way to learn Spanish and have fun at the same time.
Our free printable traditional Loteria game comes with the normal 54 cards and 10 different tables, with beautiful original designs and bright colors that will keep the kids entertained for hours!
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Supplies Needed To Play Loteria
- Loteria Cards
- Markers: Beads, Tokens, Beans, Pennies, Smarties (Anything you can use to mark the tabla.)
How To Play Lotería
Step 1
One person will announce the cards. This person is known as “el gritón”.
Step 2
When the card is announced you will mark your table.
Step 3
When a player has marked four pictures that form one of the patterns (vertical, diagonal, horizontal) they yell ¡Lotería!
Let’s Play Loteria
What you will need to do is print out the Lotería cards for free by clicking the link below. We made these cards with kids in mind because the pictures are bright and the Spanish words are clear and right above the picture and they are FREE.
Once you print out the board game and the cards, start by calling out a card and pronouncing the word in Spanish and then show your child the picture so they can figure it out. The more you play this game the more your child will catch on to the words associated with these pictures. Then you can start using them around the house so they can hear them outside of the game context. For example, you can say, “Put on your sombrero Suzie” or “We are going to eat uvas for our snack today.” Language learning can be fun, enjoy!
Download Loteria Game PDF Digital Files
Download Lotería Cards and Tables
Pair Lotería Up With A Children’s Book
This game can also be paired up with a great children’s book that we enjoy reading in our home. It has the Spanish and English side by side for those of us who need to brush up on our Spanish. Have you heard of the children’s book author Rene Colato Lainez? He’s written quite a few bilingual books that our family enjoys. The little boy in this story goes to Mexico to visit his grandma and learns a new language as a result of playing Loteria and discovers a sweet bond between him and his grandmother.
Spanish Game Loteria
I grew up playing and watching my family play “Loteria”. It was a family game and a community game played regularly with our neighbors. We would gather together in someone’s home and play this Bingo like game. There was always a huge gathering when they offered prizes. It’s generally played in Mexico but also in other Spanish speaking countries.
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Have you played Lotería before?
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Diane, it’s definitely a great way to practice Spanish for kids by making it fun with a game! Yes, and I like that you laminate them! ~Mari
This looks like a very nice game. My son and I do card games all the time for Spanish practice. We have made our own sets, using inexpensive flashcards (getting two sets, to make matching cards). We glue the pictures onto cardstock cards and laminate them; that way they hold up to being played with often.