Printable Playing Cards (Free Printable Card Deck)
Today we have some printable playing cards! This printable card deck is perfect for a rainy day, or when you’re really feeling like playing a fun card game, but have no cards!
Looking for a good indoor activity you can do on a rainy day. Playing cards are always a bordem buster, and are great to use with our printable games.
So if you’re itching to play a card game but have no playing cards, we’ve got just the thing.
A printable card deck. We’ve included all 52 cards, all four suits including hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades. Making this a complete deck of cards.
All you have to do is download the template and print out the pages. Then cut out your cards and get to playing.
We’ve made the cards as close to a standard deck as we could.
And if you like these, be sure to check out our printable dice and play money printables as well!
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How to Use the Printable Playing Cards
To use these playing cards, download the printable deck of cards PDF. If you have cardstock or very thick paper that works best.
Then cut out all of the cards from the sheets of paper. There are 8 cards per sheet of paper.
You can then decorate the back by gluing them to craft paper or thin cardboard or cardstock. Or laminate them if you plan on using them again and again.
Then get to playing.
Common Card Games
Go Fish: This classic game is perfect for kids as young as 3 or 4. To play, deal each player 7 cards face down. The rest of the deck becomes the draw pile.
Players take turns asking another player for a specific card (for example, “Do you have any 9s?”). If the player has the requested card, they must hand it over. If they don’t have the card, they say “Go fish!” and the asker must draw a card from the draw pile.
When the player has all 4 of one kind, they get to put those cards face up in front of them.
Then they draw 5 more cards from the pile. The game keeps going until all cards are gone from the draw pile, and all cards are placed face up in sets of 4. Those with the most sets wins.
War: This is a simple yet fun game that can be played with two or more players.
To start, each player is dealt half of the deck face-down. The remaining cards are placed in the middle of the table. Each player then flips over their top card at the same time.
The player with the highest card takes all of the cards and sets them aside.
In case of a tie, war is declared. Each player puts three more cards face-down and then flips over their fourth card. The highest card wins all of the cards!
The rounds keep going until one person owns all the cards.
You could also use these for pretend play for younger kids.
Grab the Printable Card Deck
To grab the free printable card deck, put your email in the box below. We’ll send the playing card template straight to your inbox.
Then you can print and start playing!
These are for personal or classroom use only please, not for commercial use. Thank you!
Card games are a great way for families to bond and have fun together. So next time you’re looking for something fun to do as a family, why not break out your printable card deck and play one of the classic card games?
