How to Make Your Own Family Wall Calendar
If you make your own family wall calendar, you can get all the advantages of a store-bought calendar, plus a few more. Your can make a calendar large enough to accommodate all your family's activities. Plus, you can personalize it with your own favorite special occasions, and add special photographs or drawings.
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Things You'll Need
- Large spiral-bound sketchbook
- Pencil, eraser, and pen
- Colored markers
- Ruler
- Photographs (optional)
- Date information for reference
Instructions
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Start with a large spiral-bound sketchbook. The large paper is great for packing in lots of activities. If your sketchbook has a lot of pages, you can tear one out every month and use the leftovers for next year.
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Tear out one page to make a template. Use a ruler and pencil to make a grid almost as wide as your paper will allow. Make the grid seven squares wide (for the days of the week) and six squares high (because most months are more than four weeks long, and some can end up starting in the end of row one and finishing in the beginning of row six). Ink this template with a heavy line.
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Put the template behind each page and trace the days you need onto the calendar, checking a reference to see what day of the week each month starts and ends. If you have trouble seeing the lines through the page, try holding the template and new page up to a window on a sunny day. The lines are generally quite easy to see this way.
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Write in the days of the week above the columns, and number the squares. Mark any special occasions your family observes.
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Decorate the calendar by gluing or taping photographs to the upper part of each page, or have kids personalize the pages with drawings.
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Tips & Warnings
Keep track of activities at a glance by assigning each family member a different color of marker. Keep the calendar in a convenient place, and use the designated colors to tell whose activities are whose.
Check your date reference frequently while you work. You can waste a lot of time and effort if you start a month on the wrong day of the week, or with the wrong number of days.
