Perpetual calendars could be made by yourself and it
is useful since you could use it month after month and year after year.
Well, it is different from a year – specific calendar that must be
thrown after the year is over but this kind of calendars could be used
for year after year. For perpetual, it could be as a thoughtful gift and
useful. It is practical also. Even with the help of your children, you
could make it by yourself. If you can make it with your entire family,
it could be a gift for them and you could make it rather than buy. Here
are the tips for you on how to make it.
First, prepare pencil, ruler, and also dry erase or magnetic bulletin
board. Other things recommended to make it are permanent marker,
adhesive spray, glue, and computer with printer. The first thing you
should do is make a grid for the calendar by using dry erase board and
use permanent marker. Make the grid by using ruler. You could use pencil
before using permanent marker to make the sketch. Make sure that there
are seven columns across the top and also seven rows for the down the
side. To place the month, leave room across the top. It is a simple way
for you to print a calendar grid out from an online source to see how
you set up the grid on your dry erase board for perpetual calendars.
For the days of the week, you could write across the top row of seven
spaces by using permanent marker. To make a professional look, the name
of the days could be printed by using your computer within the choice of
color and font as you want and glue it onto the dry erase board within
spray adhesive. Or, you could use stick – on letters to use for
scrapbooking.
From magnetic sheeting, cut 12 strip and the ruler and pencil will make
you easily create the neat. On the magnetic strips you could write the
names of the months. Later, cut 31 squares from magnetic sheeting and
the size should be fit. Use ruler and pencil to make neat. Make numbers
from 1 through 31. Place the current month magnet strip that is at the
top of the calendar, place the date magnets, keep unused month and date
magnets near the calendar so that it is ready to be used when new month
begins. Update the name of the month and you could arrange the date
magnets to make it suit as the perpetual calendars.
