Your Favorite Month!
Design and decorate a personalized calendar page for your favorite month, adding drawings, important dates, and facts to explain why it matters.
Step-by-step guide to design and decorate a personalized calendar page for your favorite month
Step 1
Choose your favorite month.
Step 2
Write the month's name large at the top of your page.
Step 3
Write the year under the month title.
Step 4
Draw a calendar grid with 7 columns and 5 or 6 rows using your pencil and ruler.
Step 5
Label the days of the week across the top row of the grid.
Step 6
Fill in the date numbers in order starting in the correct weekday box.
Step 7
Circle or mark the important dates you want to remember with a small symbol.
Step 8
Draw a small picture next to each marked date to show the event.
Step 9
Write three short facts about this month in one corner of the page.
Step 10
Write one sentence explaining why this month is your favorite.
Step 11
Color your drawings numbers and decorations using your colouring materials.
Step 12
Add stickers or extra decorations around the edges of the page.
Step 13
Share your finished calendar page on DIY.org.
Final steps
You're almost there! Complete all the steps, bring your creation to life, post it, and conquer the challenge!
Help!?
What can we use if we don't have a ruler, stickers, or certain colouring materials?
Use a straight edge like a hardcover book or cereal box to draw the 7-column grid in step 3, replace stickers from step 12 with cut-out pictures or colored paper, and substitute missing colouring materials in step 11 with markers, watercolors, or collage bits.
I'm not sure which weekday to start numbering on—how do we avoid mistakes when filling in the dates?
Before step 6 check a current calendar on a phone or online to find the correct weekday for the 1st, lightly pencil the numbers into the 7-column grid from step 4 so you can erase errors, and recount across the row if a date doesn't line up.
How can I adapt this activity for different ages?
For younger children have an adult draw the grid in step 3 and let them use large stickers for marked dates in steps 5 and 12 and copy simple facts for step 8, while older kids can research three specific facts, add detailed event sketches in step 7, and create more elaborate decorations before uploading to DIY.org in step 13.
What are some ways to make the calendar page more creative or useful after finishing it?
Add a mini habit tracker or weather row in a corner next to the three facts from step 8, personalize the month title in step 2 with hand-lettering or washi tape, laminate or photograph the finished page to share on DIY.org in step 13, and use different symbols when you mark important dates in step 5.
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Facts about calendars and months
⏳ February is the only month that can have 28 or 29 days — it gains an extra day in leap years.
🎉 Different months often feature signature holidays — for many countries, December hosts the most globally celebrated holidays.
🌸 Many cultures assign birthstones and birth flowers to months — April’s birthstone is the diamond and February’s is the amethyst.
🏛️ Several month names come from Roman history: July honors Julius Caesar and August honors Emperor Augustus.
📅 There are 12 months in the Gregorian calendar, which is used by most countries worldwide.
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