This is a traditional calendar in Europe that helps keep track of the days from early December until Christmas. But this is no ordinary number sheet. Most often it is a postcard or a cardboard house, behind the shutters of which sweets or other small gifts are hidden. There are 24 or 25 windows in total in the calendar, since Catholic Christmas is celebrated on December 25th. Every day a section opens with the current date.
Among the winter holidays, we celebrate the New Year on a grand scale, so it’s more logical to make 31 windows on the calendar and delight yourself and your loved ones until the last day of the year. Although, of course, choose the number of sections at your discretion.
You can make a calendar from anything and give it any shape. For example, hang numbered bags on a wall or a homemade Christmas tree, make a panel with pockets, create a winter composition of houses - it all depends on your taste and imagination. Instead of toys, sweets and other gifts, you can put notes inside with tasks for the New Year's mood: decorate a Christmas tree, build a snowman, bake, and so on.
How to make an advent calendar from paper or cardboard
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What do you need:
- brown cardboard;
- scissors;
- regular ruler;
- thin metal ruler or stationery knife;
- white pencil;
- hole puncher;
- glue;
- present;
- light yarn;
- wide ribbon and clothespins are optional.
How to make an advent calendar
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Apply a ruler to the dotted lines and go over them with a metal ruler or knife, without cutting all the way through the cardboard.
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Number each house. Make one hole on both sides.
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Lubricate the small curved parts of the workpiece with glue. Fold all sides up and glue the house together. The detailed process is shown in the video below.
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Make the required number of houses in this way and put gifts inside. Thread yarn through the holes in the roof and tie with a bow.
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Place the houses side by side or attach them to a strip using clothespins and hang them on the wall.
What other options are there?
Here is another calendar with paper houses. The template for them can be downloaded.
This video shows how to make a simple calendar from paper bags:
Here is a stunning calendar made of paper boots and stars. For details you can use craft paper, gift wrapping and even leftover wallpaper.
The most traditional version of the Advent calendar with opening windows can be made from corrugated cardboard:
Here is a beautiful cardboard house with retractable cells:
The chest-shaped calendar looks very cool:
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What do you need:
- thin ribbon of two colors;
- scissors;
- thick branch;
- wrapping paper in two different colors;
- toilet paper rolls (according to the number of days in the future calendar);
- glue;
- stapler;
- thick needle, awl or other piercing instrument;
- present;
- White paper;
- pencils or markers - optional.
How to make an advent calendar
Cut 3–4 pieces 50–60 cm long from each ribbon. Place them together and tie them to the two ends of the branch.
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Cut out several rectangles from wrapping paper that we will use to wrap the sleeves. Half of them should be covered with one paper, and the rest with another. Lubricate the first sleeve with glue and glue the edge of the paper to it.
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Wrap the sleeve completely in paper. Fold the edges inward on both sides.
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Bend one side of the sleeve and secure with a stapler, as shown in the photo.
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Bend the other edge perpendicular to the opposite one. If you are at a loss, watch the video instructions below. Make two holes in the top center with a thick needle, awl or other tool.
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In the same way, make cardboard bags from the remaining sleeves.
Place gifts inside. Cut as many ribbons of different lengths as you have bushings. Pass them through the holes as shown in the photo. One end of the tape should remain long.
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Tie the ribbons with a strong knot. Cut off the short end of the ribbon.
On paper, draw or print circles with numbers to represent days on the calendar. Cut them out and glue them onto each bag.
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Tie the bags to the branch at different heights, alternating in color. Try to make sure that each of them is visible.
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Cut off the excess ends of the ribbons. Hang up your finished calendar.
What other options are there?
Similar open bags can be hung in a row on clothespins:
In this master class we made cute boxes from bushings:
The advent calendar in the shape of a house looks interesting:
And in the form of a Christmas tree:
Cardboard rolls can also be turned into colorful candies:
Another original calendar:
What do you need:
- cardboard;
- a simple pencil or pen;
- ruler;
- scissors;
- red, white and brown felt (you can use other colors or felt with a pattern);
- chalk;
- needle;
- light thick threads;
- round Velcro with adhesive backing;
- glue gun;
- light buttons (according to the number of days in the future calendar);
- cardboard and/or ready-made figures;
- themed decorations - optional;
- wooden stick or branch (slightly wider than a calendar);
- twine or thick threads;
- present.
How to make an advent calendar
On the cardboard, mark a piece measuring 18 × 6 cm. Draw a horizontal line at a distance of 5 cm from the top edge. Step back 7 cm from it and draw another line.
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Make basting marks on the sides at a distance of 2 cm from the edge. Connect them by tracing a small lid or other round object.
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At the bottom, also draw a small arc, as shown in the photo.
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Cut off the excess along the marked arcs. This will be the template for the calendar pockets. Place it on the felt and outline with chalk.
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Cut out the part. In the same way, make the rest of the blanks from felt of different colors. There should be as many of them as there are cells in your calendar.
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Sew the fabric along the sides to create an envelope. The line should be noticeable: it will be more beautiful. Make envelopes from the remaining blanks in the same way.
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Glue the Velcro round halves to the top of each piece and under the pocket. Details are in the video below. For reliability, you can sew Velcro to the felt.
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Cut out a large rectangle from red felt that will accommodate all the pockets. The author of this calendar with 24 cells had base dimensions of 54 × 36 cm.
Draw lines with chalk, retreating 7 cm from the top, 3 cm from the sides, and 2 cm from the bottom. Without going beyond the outlined boundaries, use a glue gun to glue the prepared pockets to the base in several rows. In the video they were arranged in 6 rows with 4 pockets each. 31 cells can be arranged, for example, in 8 rows: 4 cells in 7 rows and 3 pockets in the last one.
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Glue buttons and numbers to the pocket flaps. They can be cut out of paper.
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From brown or white felt, cut a rectangular piece the width of the base. In the example - 36 × 12 cm. If your calendar is wider, adjust the blank to fit it.
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If desired, you can cut out the name of the calendar or a congratulatory inscription from cardboard and glue it above the pockets. Place cardboard snowflakes on the side. Instead of homemade ones, you can use purchased themed decorations.
Take a wooden stick or branch and wrap it around the top edge of the calendar. Sew the folded fabric.
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Tie a piece of twine to the ends of the stick and hang the calendar. Place gifts in the pockets.
What other options are there?
This calendar looks simply wonderful, and is much easier to make than it seems:
A similar advent calendar with a different design:
This video shows how to make individual pockets:
You can move away from traditional sewn options and make a calendar from hanging fabric bags:
What do you need:
- wooden slats;
- saw or other cutting tool;
- wood glue;
- wooden clothespins (according to the number of days in the future calendar);
- green spray paint;
- self-adhesive paper or film with a pattern;
- scissors;
- a wooden blank in the shape of a star (you can cut it yourself from thick cardboard);
- PVA glue;
- wide brush;
- glitter;
- burlap or other fabric;
- wide gold ribbon;
- wrapping paper, paper bags, fabric bags, socks or anything else where you will put gifts;
- present.
How to make an advent calendar
Saw the slats into six pieces of the following lengths: 30, 38, 45, 50, 55 and 91 cm. You will also need two identical slats measuring 20 cm.
Lay the longest strip vertically. Arrange the remaining five from top to bottom from small to large to form a Christmas tree.
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Glue all the horizontal slats to the vertical one. Attach two identical parts to the bottom of the tree on both sides - this will be a stand.
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Cover the clothespins with self-adhesive paper or film. Cut off the excess.
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Cover the star with glue, sprinkle with glitter and shake off the excess. Glue it to the top of the wooden Christmas tree.
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Hang gifts on clothespins. In the master class they are packed in gift paper, but you can use bags, bags or anything else.
What other options are there?
Mini calendar made from popsicle sticks, designed specifically for task notes:
And here we show you how to make a wall calendar from branches. Instead of paper bags, you can use fabric bags, Christmas stockings, small boxes, or simply wrap each gift in wrapping paper.
Calendars do not have to be designed in the shape of a Christmas tree. You can make a kind of wooden hanger for gifts:
What other options are there?
Here is an advent calendar in the form of a festive tree:
You can make boxes out of glasses, number them and simply place them next to each other.
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Good day, dear colleagues, friends, guests of my page! I present to your attention a master class on making a nature calendar with your own hands. After the renovation, I had a few ceiling tiles left, and I decided to put them to good use in my work with children. I made a nature calendar in the form of a folder - a screen.
For work I needed:
1. ceiling tiles (laminated);
4. dense files (A-4 format);
5. double tape;
6. printed pictures;
7. stationery knife;
8. glue for ceiling tiles.
Let's get started:
Stage 1.
Cut all corners of the ceiling tiles with a utility knife.
Stage 2.
Using an awl, we will make holes on the sides of the tile for further assembly of the product. We do them evenly on all sides.
Stage 3.
We fasten the tiles with decorative cord or satin ribbon. We take 2 laces and pass them through the holes, we begin to weave (lace). We tie the ends of the lace with a bow on the back of the folder.
Stage 4.
We decorate 2 sides of our folder - screens with lace. It’s even easier to process the edges of the folder by wrapping it with braid (like sewing with a needle over the edge). Glue the ends to the tile on the reverse side.
Stage 5.
Using double tape we secure the files - pockets on our tiles. We glue all other elements with special glue for ceiling tiles.
The weather calendar screen folder is ready!
In my folder - screen (nature calendar) - 3 sections:
1. We watch the weather. For younger children, you can glue the drawing board with a marker. Mark the weather with a marker, first with the help of a teacher, and then independently. You can insert a landscape sheet with day markings into a transparent file. Older children will use conventional symbols to mark the weather. This is very convenient - you can monitor the weather over a certain period of time, followed by a comparison of the weather.
2. Seasonal picture, with the time of year.
3. Bird watching on site.
Here are pictures of birds. Next to the bird there is a colored circle that corresponds to that particular bird. At the bottom of our tile there is a transparent pocket. It contains small pieces of white paper with a circle outline. Children mark on them the birds they saw on a walk (paint the circles with a certain color). Younger children do this with the help of a teacher.
You can supplement the nature calendar with other sections.
For example: monitor the plantings in the garden (in a group and on the street, displaying it on paper, and then insert the file into a pocket. The entire path of growth and development of the plant will be traced here.
The screen folder can be placed in a corner of nature, placed on a windowsill or in another place, or simply folded.
Publications on the topic:
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In this article we will offer ideas for calendars that you can make yourself.
A calendar is usually a necessary purchase. However, maybe it makes sense to think about having such an item also serve as part of the decor? And if you make a calendar yourself, the interior will also gain some zest!
How to make a calendar with your own hands for children in kindergarten or school: step-by-step instructions, photos
With small children you can make it simple and at the same time unusual button calendar:
- First of all, you need to ask the baby choose the right size buttons. This task will contribute development of fine motor skills of the hands.
- Next you need to ask the child cut out circles with numbers from paper. Such a task will teach you to handle scissors carefully.
IMPORTANT: The circles must be of such a size that they can fit inside the buttons.
- Then you need glue the circles into the buttons, and themselves buttons - stick on any calendar base. It could be fabric, cardboard. Such work will develop in the child perseverance, creative thought.
Teachers also advise doing this with your children. weather calendar, which will help your child quickly learn not only numbers, days of the week and months, but also weather phenomena.
Will come in handy:
- A4 paper
- Felt thick and thin
- Velcro tape
- Fabric and bias tape
IMPORTANT: The dimensions of the bias tape should be approximately 1.5 m.
- Embroidery threads
- Needle, scissors
The working process is as follows:
- First you need to draw on paper sketch.
- Further a panel is cut out of thick felt approximately 30x42 cm in size. You also need to cut 19 parts to indicate months and days of the week in 2x10 cm format, 12 parts for numbers measuring 4.5x7 cm, 6 or more parts for weather measuring 10x10 cm.
- Next are created blanks made of thin felt.
- Now they're getting chopped strips of Velcro tape.
- Then ribbons need to be sewn to felt pieces sticky side out.
- It's time to prepare number patterns.
- Numbers needed cut from thin felt.
- Next you need felt numbers place on thick felt strips and sew them among themselves.
- Further Weather phenomena are cut out of thin material– sun, clouds. The rain can be cut out, or you can simply embroider it.
IMPORTANT: They should also be sewn to pieces of thick fabric.
- On small strips you need write months, days of the week. Preferably used for this purpose disappearing marker– you can embroider on it, and the paint itself will come off over time.
- Now you need to cut and sew or simply embroider a phrase with thread on the largest base for the craft "Weather calendar".
- Further Velcro is sewn on according to the diagram below:
- Now you can take care creating a pocket– you can put all the removable parts in it. Are cut out one blank size 17x32 cm, two blanks 15x32 cm each, one stripe 10x63 cm.
IMPORTANT: Parts with a format of 15x32 cm must be rounded along one edge.
- Now two identical blanks are folded with their front sides facing each other, stitched on three sides, and then turn out. On the edge that is not sewn, you need to do seam allowances, tuck them in, stitch to the edge. Attached to the top with threads Velcro.
- Further The fabric strip needs to be folded with the wrong side out, ironed, and sewn to the pocket. At the same time, the allowances are turned over to the pocket and attached.
- To your pocket the second part of the adhesive strip is sewn on, and the pocket itself is sewn to the blank for the calendar.
IMPORTANT: The corners of the large felt blank must be aligned so that it ultimately follows the outline of the pocket.
- Top and bottom connected pocket The edges should be hemmed bias tape.
- Top corners calendar is worth providing loops– with their help the calendar should be attached to the wall. And so that the loops are not conspicuous, you can decorate them with sticky strips– symbols of the month can be attached to such strips in the future.
How to make an advent calendar from felt?
So-called advent calendars, which count from the first day of December to the last, are especially popular in European countries. After all, each day corresponds to a certain pocket in which a surprise is hidden. Often people create such calendars on their own. So, For a felt gingerbread house calendar you will need:
- Felt must definitely be brown, since the gingerbread house is exactly that shade. Other colors are selected at your discretion
- A hanger on which clothes are usually placed
- Threads, needles, scissors
- Decor – buttons, sequins, beads, sparkles
It’s not difficult to create such beauty:
- Made from brown felt need to create two large basic patterns d for the house.
IMPORTANT: They must be wide enough to accommodate the hanger.
- Blanks needed sew right sides facing out.
- Now it's worth cut out pockets. You should not immediately glue them onto the base - it is preferable to think about the plot in advance and, if necessary, decorate the pockets before placing them on the calendar. This will make the job much easier.
- Don't forget about in numbers! They can be cut from the same felt or from any other fabric. You can also attach it in any way you like - with Velcro, glue, thread.
- The final and most creative stage remains - decor! You need to stick snow-covered window sills and roof, Christmas tree, candy canes, snowmen, etc. on the house.
How to make a desk or desk calendar from paper and cardboard? How to make a scrapbooking calendar with your own hands?
To create such a calendar, you will need:
- A4 cardboard
IMPORTANT: It is preferable to choose the following density – 250 g/cm2. This density is observed in photo cardboard.
- Scrap paper with any motifs
- Springs if there is a binder or rings if there is none
- Decor elements
- Printout of the calendar grid for 2020-2021
You can get started:
- First of all, you need crease the base cardboard, that is, creating a groove for further folding of the material. A regular fold in half can damage the image, so creasing is preferable. It is advisable to use a special board for this process.
IMPORTANT: Of course, not everyone can have a board, so you can make do with improvised materials. For example, a ruler and a pen that does not write.
- After creasing the cardboard needs to be folded into a kind of triangle, which will be stable on the table.
- In order to make the sides of the calendar elegant, you need each of them decorate with scrap paper. When cutting out rectangles, be sure to take allowances into account. About enough for them 2-3 mm.
- Now rectangles are glued to a photo cardboard base.
- Next you can do calendar grid.
IMPORTANT: The leaves should be designed in any form you like and printed so that each month is located on a separate piece of paper.
- You can start decorating front side of the calendar.
- Next, the leaves with months are placed in a stack, and the stack is processed binder. The binder also needs to be used to process the base for the calendar. If there is no such tool, you can fastening with rings.
- Now you need some leaves string on a spring or rings, attach to the base.
How to make a wall calendar: description, ideas, photos
To make the following universal calendar you need:
- Cork board
- Buttons that are convenient for attaching something to such a board
- Colored cardboard
- Scissors
- Markers
Operating procedure:
- You need to cut out days from colored cardboard for every month. You can alternate colors at your discretion.
- Then pieces of paper are attached to the board buttons, and The numbers are written with a marker.
IMPORTANT: It is most convenient to attach not all months, but one current one.
- On a separate sheet the name of the month is written.
- That's it - you can hang the calendar on the wall! The period of the month change is marked a new portion of paper-days. By the way, you can not only draw numbers on the leaves, but also write notes.
The next calendar idea is similar, but has some nuances. For production you need:
- Cardboard base with picture frame. A glazed base is needed. Preferred size not less than 30x40 cm
- Colored cardboard or colored paper. Stickers can be used
- Double sided tape
- Scissors
- Marker
IMPORTANT: You need to choose a water-based marker, traces of which can be easily removed with a sponge.
Let's get started:
- The basis is needed mentally demarcate into 31 sections– one current month will be presented.
- Further stickers are attached. If you only have colored paper at hand, you need to cut it into squares, which, in turn, should be attached using double-sided tape.
IMPORTANT: There is no need to write anything on these pieces of paper yet!
- If provided decor, It's worth addressing it at this stage.
- All that remains is cover the workpiece with glass. It's already there you can make marks– month, days, various notes.
How to make a tear-off calendar from paper: description, ideas, photos
Required:
- Regular wooden board
- Board on which you can write with chalk
- White acrylic paint, as well as a multi-colored set of paints
- Spray paint
- Clamps, screws for them
- Paper
- Double-sided tape
The operating procedure is as follows:
- Wooden board should be covered white paint.
- After the paint has dried, you need to apply stripes and other patterns. colored paint.
IMPORTANT: It is preferable to apply the paint randomly.
- Then, in the place where the chalk board will be attached, you need attach tape.
- Board is attached.
- The clamps need to be coated with paint, which is sprayed. It is preferable to leave gaps - this will create an antique effect. Or you can scrape off fresh paint.
- With screws The clamps are attached to the board.
- The calendar is ready! Left attach pieces of paper to the clips on which dates will be written. As the dates progress, the papers will be torn off. You can write months on the board.
How to make a calendar with photos from cardboard: ideas, manufacturing schemes, photos
Favorite photos can be added to the calendar quite simply. All you need is:
- Actually, the photographs
- Cardboard
- Pre-printed calendar grids with months and dates
- Scissors
- Hole puncher
- Double-sided tape or glue
- Satin ribbon or twine
You can start:
- So, first of all, you need compare the sizes of photographs, cardboard blanks and calendar grids.
IMPORTANT: They must match.
- Photo need to stick on cardboard.
- Then you need to do holes at the bottom of the cardboard with photo and at the top of a stack of sheets with dates.
- Need to connect the photo to the calendar grid. And this can be done using twine or tape.
You can also make advent calendars from photos. Advent calendar in the form of a Christmas tree. Advent calendar in the form of bags. Advent calendar with buckets. Bright desktop easel calendar with thematic drawings suitable for each month. There are an endless number of options for creating calendars. This is what makes handmade unique, which allows you to decorate your interior with unique things. And as a gift, such a calendar is quite versatile!
Video: Several ideas for creating DIY calendars
We never have to think that such a thing as a calendar can be made with our own hands. After all, we can buy it in any store or use it from our tablet. But if you try at least once to use a calendar made with love by your hands, then every time you take it out, you will feel the warmth of human hands.
From scrap materials you can create a whole work of art that will never compare with a purchased item. Think about what kind of calendar you would like to have and make it, taking inspiration from one of the ideas. Before you start making a calendar, you should think about what form it will be in: wall, desk, etc. Let's look at how to make a calendar with your own hands.
Desk calendar
A handmade paper calendar will help brighten up your office routine and will therefore be an excellent gift for your colleague or you. Let's learn how to make a calendar with your own hands from paper.
You will need to get a few pages of thick paper. Each page is dedicated to one month. The pages will need to be cut out with scissors and shaped into a rectangle.
Next, apply a calendar grid to each page; this can be done using a template or manually. You can find the template on the Internet and print it out, or arm yourself with pencils, felt-tip pens and do everything by hand. You can decorate the pages as you wish, you will need a color palette, glitter, colored pencils, markers, stickers and other things.
Place each month in order, stack the sheets together, and use a hole punch to poke a hole in the middle of the sheet. Insert the ring there. You can make your calendar in any shape - round, oval, square, heart-shaped. Your imagination is not limited by anything.
So that you can always see the calendar in front of you, attach it to the base. To make the base you will need several sheets, preferably cardboard. Cut out three rectangles from paper, two of them should be the same in length and width. And one needs to be made half the width - this will be the bottom of the base. Next, you need to glue all these pieces together to create a base on which you will attach your desk calendar.
Postcard calendar
This idea is exciting and will bring a lot of pleasure to your household. Throughout the year, you can record on the calendar the events that happened to you and your family. In 10 years, such a calendar will become a family heirloom, which will be interesting to read.
To make such a calendar, prepare the following things: postcards for each month, a box, scissors, notebook sheets with a wide ruler, twine, stamp.
Take a wide-ruled notebook and cut out small rectangles from the notebook sheets. Stamp the date on each rectangle. But if it is not there, then you can do it manually.
Place all the leaves and cards with the months in a box. The leaves should be arranged by date, with each month highlighted by a postcard.
Calendar with photos
Select your photographs, prepare leaves, colored cardboard, fastening elements - glue, tape, colored paper, ribbon (satin ribbon is most suitable). Instead of photographs, you can take any pictures, such as images from films, landscapes, etc.
Progress:
- Photos must be the same size, this should be taken care of at the very beginning.
- Prepare sheets of paper of a suitable size on which you can glue photos. Do this with glue or tape.
- Connect all the leaves together according to the days and months. Make a hole at the top through which you need to thread the ribbon.
If you know Photoshop, then you can print out the leaves yourself with a beautiful background and calendar grid. Print your work on a printer. Although sometimes it is impossible to print sheets in the format you need on a printer. In this case, you can resort to the services of photo studios or printing houses. After that, you can glue your photos and you will get a calendar dear to your heart.
Wall calendar - planner
If you want to make a calendar that will remind you of important things or events, then try making this option. Take a large sheet of paper - whatman paper, draw 12 sectors or 31 squares there.
In each of these sectors you can enter the information you need. Label sectors by month or squares by day. Now you can add any information related to your life there - plans for the coming months, birthdays of your loved ones, vacation days, etc.
You can make a universal wall calendar from canvas that will help you not just for one year, but for several. To do this, you need to find a canvas that is the right size for you. Draw borders on it, you should have 7 columns and 5 rows. This must be done using ribbons. Attach pretty pins where the lines intersect. You can secure the ribbon on the back side with wire cutters.
You will need colored paper or cardboard, from which you need to make squares with numbers indicating the days of the week. Use double tape to attach them to each cell. The names of the month can also be prepared from colored paper and pasted on. Now you can write about any events and reminders on stickers and stick them on the date you need.
Perpetual calendar
You can make a perpetual calendar from any hard material, such as plywood or cardboard, or better yet wood. It will serve you faithfully for many years. In the base box of such a calendar there are a couple of cubes, where the days of the week and a block with months are written. A minimum set of numbers from 0 to 5 is applied to one cube.
The numbers from 0 to 9 are written on the second cube; the number 9 is not written, since its role could well be played by the number 6. The names of the months are written on the edges of three long bars.
If you want to make such a calendar from wood, then you need to prepare tools such as a saw, cutter, jigsaw to work with them on wood. We cut out cubes and bars. You need to sand your wood pieces with sandpaper.
Inscriptions on the block cubes are applied in various ways. If you are confident in your drawing abilities, you can do it by hand using a brush and paint.
If not, make a template that you can trace. You can also apply numbers using a burning machine, wood cutters, or simply stick on buttons with numbers. You can soak your wood pieces in oil to give them a more attractive appearance.
The calendar case is made from pieces of plywood. The back wall must correspond to the entire length of the structure of cubes and bars. The size of the side wall should correspond to the width of the cube and the width of the back wall, the height of the cube and the thickness of the block. All cubes and bars should fit on the bottom.
The structure can be secured with carpentry nails or glue. The body can be decorated to make it look more attractive by painting it or sticking various images on it.
Such a calendar will not gather dust somewhere in the back of a closet; it will serve people faithfully and also decorate the room.
Simple wall calendar
There is the easiest option to make a calendar with your own hands, on which you can practice first. Take a simple sheet of paper and cardboard and draw 7 columns and 5 lines on it by hand. The lines must be absolutely straight with equal intervals. Label the columns and rows with days of the week and months.
Decorate your calendar with pictures or stickers. A color palette or stickers will help you with this. You can highlight important dates in a special way by sticking some small accessory or picture on them. For example, on the New Year's date you can stick a snowflake or a Christmas tree, on a birthday - a flower. If it is your sister's birthday, then stick a small photo of her on this date. Fold the sheets, make a hole, tie with twine or ribbon and hang on the wall.
If you like to draw and do it well, then simply paint a piece of whatman paper, having first outlined it and made the necessary notes. You can hang a wall calendar on a nail or hook, which must first be placed on the wall.
Show your imagination and create different calendar options yourself. You can present your crafts to your loved ones, especially on a holiday like New Year. This will be a great sign of appreciation and they will be happy to receive such a wonderful gift from you.
A kindergarten is not just a place where a child spends time while parents are at work. Here he receives development, gets acquainted with the rules of communication and behavior, learns a lot of new things about himself and the world around him. The Federal State Educational Standards program states that, among other things, each group must have a nature calendar for kindergarten. For younger children this is one stand, for older children - another. However, such a calendar performs important tasks and serves as teaching material for teachers in introducing children to nature and weather.
Nature calendar for kindergarten - why is it needed?
A corner of nature, as the above-mentioned calendar is also called, is a useful decoration for every group. It should not only be bright and interesting, but also meaningful. Basic Calendar Functions:
- Formation of children's ideas about ecology.
- Development of thinking, the ability to establish cause-and-effect relationships between various natural phenomena.
- Instilling the basics of proper behavior in nature and the desire to preserve it.
- Forming an idea of how huge and diverse the world around is.
- Fostering a reverent attitude and love for nature.
Each educator has his own idea of what a natural area should be like. But we should not forget that children should learn as much as possible and in a form that is understandable to them. An addition to the calendar will be where you can place (ficus, primrose, violets, chlorophytum and others) and show the children how to properly care for them. You can also get small and unpretentious animals there: fish, pigs, parrots, hamsters, mice, turtles. Children will be able to visually observe how representatives of flora and fauna behave depending on the time of year and weather conditions.
The biggest difficulty for teachers is usually related to the design of a calendar in a corner of nature. Questions about what information to put there, how to present it correctly, how to tell students about what they see. Now in the store you can find a large number of ready-made nature calendars for kindergarten, which contain everything you need. As a result, all options are divided into 2 age groups: for the younger group and the middle/senior group.
Nature calendar for the younger group
For children 3-4 years old, there are several types of nature calendars: observation of the growth and development of animals, birds, seasonal changes in nature. The calendar about birds contains photographs of different birds that fly to the feeder - children are meeting many of them for the first time.
The calendar of changes in nature depending on the season allows children to systematically observe what is happening outside the window every day and compare it with the data. Very often it is designed in the form of a clock with an arrow. The teacher needs to conduct observations for them at the beginning and end of each season. Attached to the calendar are pictures depicting weather conditions at different times of the year, so after the walk the entire younger group can find the necessary ones (sun, rain, wind, snowstorm) and attach them to the stand. In this case, the calendar may contain several sectors:
- Seasons: summer, spring, autumn, winter. In any case, a nature calendar for a kindergarten should be designed with this sector, because in the younger group, children begin to have an idea of what it is cold, hot, windy, whether this refers to spring or autumn, winter or summer, whether birds fly away or are returning.
- Natural phenomena and temperature: rain (strong and weak), snow, blizzard, wind, sun, fog, hail, frost, ice, etc.; temperature scale with an element moving along it.
- Days of the week: Monday to Sunday.
At the same time as using the nature calendar, the teacher gives the children a didactic game to play, which requires a doll. They must understand how warm clothes need to be selected, where and in what order they should be worn.
Nature calendar for middle and high school kindergarten
If with 3-year-old children the teacher observes each natural phenomenon separately, then from 4 years old children are able to perceive 2-3 phenomena at the same time. For example, not only rainy weather, but also windy weather, or not just the blooming of leaves on trees, but also their falling when there is a gust of wind. The nature calendar can be complicated or supplemented.
For example, months with holidays can be filled with corresponding flags or pictures: “March 8”, “New Year”, “Easter” and others. Now you can not only mark the day of the week on which the children came to kindergarten today, but also indicate the current date, month and year.
Calendar manufacturers have begun to produce quite modern models that contain magnets and can act as a board for washable markers. Preschool children who have already mastered letters and numbers can add their notes to it or depict what they see with drawings - or the teacher does this. It turns out to be a kind of observation diary, which can be discussed daily with the students. Calendar styles can be very different: cartoon, sports, plain, funny, with images of children, animals, plants or beautiful nature in the background.
Making a nature calendar for kindergarten with your own hands
If you don’t have the funds to buy a ready-made calendar or your imagination is so strong that you want to realize your ideas in creating it, then with a time investment of about 5-6 hours, you can make a corner of nature with your own hands. Here are some interesting options.
Perhaps the most practical calendar will be the one with a wear-resistant base and excellent tenacity. A great option is a rectangular rug. You can attach pictures and decorations to it using pins. The downside of such a calendar is that it is not very secure. Therefore, it is best to use it in the older group of kindergarten. Let each season of the year be decorated separately.
Spring has come - you can hang appropriate photographs (even of the children themselves), pictures cut out from magazines or postcards. On the Internet you will also find images of weather phenomena for this time of year. You can make a “clock” of days of the week and time of day from colored paper. Or it could just be pictures that are selected using checkboxes.
Another good option is a plywood or PVC base. Then it will be safer to work. Self-adhesive paper will allow you to both decorate your stand and arrange it correctly. Ask creative parents to bring themed cards or handmade interactives from home. A moving thermometer indicator can be made from red and blue locks. Let them close in the middle, and above and below it write down the thermometer readings with the original scale.
A simplified version of the natural calendar will also be interesting. Arrange the seasons clockwise, labeling them with their characteristic weather conditions. Place the arrow in the center. You can attach 4 files to the base and insert images with the seasons into them, and on top, using self-adhesive paper or double-sided tape, attach images of animals, weather phenomena, temperature, and other things.
By designing a nature calendar for a kindergarten, you will allow your students to experience the world around them in its manifestations in the form of precipitation, decrease and increase in temperature, animals and flowers waking up and falling asleep. Make or buy a stand that will be understandable to children. Let them be involved in the process as much as possible: they themselves talk about what they see and feel, answer questions about what picture should be placed and where. Develop the guys - this is the future!