Homemade Calendars - 2025 Edition

We love making handmade calendars each year and giving them as gifts to family and friends (see The Maths of Practical Life: Clocks & Calendars)!

This project is particularly helpful for first graders, especially those who may still be writing their numbers in Backwards Land.

We write letters so much more often than we do numbers, and many times there's not the muscle memory for how a number should go. For the older children, it's just a chance to have fun and to make a lovely handmade gift!

This year we are focusing on collage, and doing mindbending and creative prompts from Richard Kehl's book How to Make a Zero Backwards: An Activity Book for the Imagination. Here are my notes as we go along!

Other topics of study this month are The Story of Geometry for the older students (11-13) and An Introduction to Grammar for the younger (8-10).

Jan - Mixed-Up Animals

set out three trays on the floor to help corral animal parts!

Feb - Trading Cards

cut down jumbo card stock tags to make the "trading cards"

make 3 or more cards, then mount them on the page

for this project, the children used colored pencils

except for Zac, who used wallpaper samples!

Mar - Sky Shop

Apr - Flowers from Their Names

May - An Eye Chart

Jun - Magic Names

Jul - Carnival Front

Aug - A Visit to a Strange Land

Sep - Sky, Handle, Shoe

Oct - Basic Ideas

Nov - Bottom and Top

Dec - Picture Magnet

front cover - Self-Portrait

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