Calendar

With three kids life keeps getting crazier and crazier, and I definitely needed a good calendar to have out for everyone to stay on schedule. The only problem is that most calendars I have found at the store aren't the cutest looking things, so I decided to just make my own. Here's the finished product:

I started out by buying a regular white magnetic dry erase board from the store.

 

I also found some cute packages of scrapbook paper in the craft section and some precut circular magnets. (I had bought magnetic sheets as well but they didn't work out very well.)

 

I had an old mirror that I wasn't using, and I really like the frame on it so I decided to use the frame for this project.

 

 

I used the clear piece of a 20" x 30" poster board frame for the front of my calendar. I measured out and drew a calendar grid with permanent marker on the plastic piece.

 

 

I then took the scrapbooking paper and mod podged it to the dry erase board.

 

 

Because the plastic piece was bigger than the board and the frame was bigger than the plastic piece, I created a mat frame around the calendar by covering cardboard with white paper.

 

 

I made the numbers by covering the circular magnets with the scrapbooking paper and then printing off some numbers to glue onto them. This will make it easier so that you don't have to write new numbers at the beginning of every month. I also made a special section on the board to write the month. The design possibilities are really endless here.

 

 

This was definitely a fun project. I would recommend buying some dry erase markers othen than the ones that come with the board because they aren't always the greatest quality.

Hope you like it :)