Calendar ideas: trends 2021

The approach of the New Year holidays is a great time for a variety of gifts and surprises and a great opportunity to prepare for the next year.

A stylish and original calendar will be a beautiful and useful craft, made with your own hands; such handicraft can turn into a good family tradition.

Looking at the proposed photos of a hand-made calendar, you can visually evaluate the ideas and options for implementing a simple craft.

Such a product, with the soul put into it, cannot be compared with purchased calendars, and can be used to decorate your own home or as an original and unusual gift.

Calendars: beautiful and original home decoration

In order for a calendar made by yourself to fit into the interior design of any room, you need to carefully select the style of its design.

For decoration, you can use any available means and at home you can easily make different types of calendars, which include:

reversible and wall structures;
calendars for planning for the month;
interesting advent calendars for the holiday.

The unique tradition of children's advent calendars, which came from European culture, helps to entertain the child and prepare him for the upcoming holiday.

Every day, opening a new day on the calendar, the baby performs a variety of tasks, and parents are given an excellent opportunity to prepare creative tasks.

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

Here's what's useful for making a wall calendar
. Procedure:

for each month from colored cardboard Colors can be alternated at your discretion.

Cutting out squares for a wall calendar

Then the pieces of paper are attached to the board with buttons, and the numbers are written with a marker.

This is how you can number the days of the calendar

IMPORTANT: It is most convenient to attach not all months, but one current one.

on a separate sheet .
That's it - you can hang the calendar on the wall! The period of month change is marked by a new portion of paper days. By the way, you can not only draw numbers on the leaves, but also write notes.

This is what a wall calendar looks like

You can create a family wall calendar like this.
The next calendar idea is similar, but has nuances. For production you need:

Cardboard base with picture frame. A glazed base is needed. The preferred size is at least 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 must be mentally demarcated into 31 sections - one current month will be presented.
Next, 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!

This is how leaves should be placed on a wall calendar

If decor is provided, it is worth doing it at this stage.
All that remains is to cover the workpiece with glass. Now you can make marks - month, days, various notes.

It turns out this is a wall calendar

By the way, the basis for such a wall calendar can be not only cardboard, but also fabric

What materials can be used for creativity?

When creating a calendar for children with your own hands or a stylish interior decoration, you can use a variety of materials.

This beautiful calendar easily combines and combines paper and cardboard, wooden bases and plywood boards, candy boxes and soft felt, fabrics and threads.

To give originality to the appearance of the finished product, preference is given to decorative ornaments and decor.

For the creative process, you can use last year's postcards and craft paper, family photographs and beautiful pictures, figurines of animals and birds, and any waste materials.

With background

calendar.volego.ru – a wizard for overlaying any calendar grid onto an image to create desktop wallpaper.

To work on this site, you need to select a year, upload your image in good quality or select from the gallery and download the result.
calendar.new-ecopsychology.org – a simple constructor in Russian, you can select only the suggested backgrounds, different locations of calendar grids.
www.calendarum.ru is a Russian service for creating photo calendars for the current year for free and without registration. Calendar on your own background image or from a generator template.
quickpicturetools.com/ - The designer runs on flash, so allow the use of flash player. Has many settings and functions. Create desktop wallpaper.
www.canva.com is a well-known online service that also allows you to generate calendars. Follow the link to the appropriate page. Registration required. Here you can create a calendar for each month from existing layouts. There are many free templates for the current year that you can edit to suit your needs. Correct the text, add a photo, etc. The main disadvantage of this site is that it is only partially translated into Russian, but for those who have a minimal command of English this will not be a problem.

Beautiful cards

If we make a calendar out of paper with our own hands, then for each month we can use postcards collected over the year.

The upcoming layout is drawn on a cardboard base, a string is fixed on the reverse side using a glue gun, and postcards symbolizing a certain month are attached to it using decorative clothespins.

Basic calendar formats

The format in most cases depends on the purposes for which and where the calendar will be used. Most often, printing houses prepare products of standard sizes - time-tested products. Here is a brief description of popular calendar formats.

Wall mounted

There are the following types of wall calendars:

leafy;
tear-off;
quarterly;
changeover.

As a rule, such products are produced in A4 format and larger (up to A1). The size is determined by technological capabilities, tasks and conditions of use. If the calendar needs to be used at an exhibition or in an office that is regularly visited by clients, then it is worth producing it in a large format so that it can be seen from afar. Not only cardboard or paper can be used as a base, but also other options: canvas, film, wood.

Tabletop

Placed on tables, bedside tables, chests of drawers and other similar furniture, they provide maximum information content. All types of desktop calendars are compact in size so as not to clutter up space, and can contain beautiful landscapes, photographs of people, pictures of famous places, statements of famous personalities, etc.

There are:

changeover;
non-crossover: “pyramid”, “house”.

Desk calendars can be a “house” with a block consisting of 6 or 12 sheets. A spring can be used as fastening. In this format, the calendar can display the day, week, month.

“Pyramids” have 3 sides and one base. Flip models often contain the logo and name of the company (brand), slogan, coordinates, and a list of goods or services that the company offers.

As a rule, coated paper with a density of 300 g/m2 is used to produce wall-type calendars. Possible product format limits are from 100x200 to 210x210 mm. Additionally, post-printing can be used.

Pocket

If previously such calendars were produced mainly in sizes 70x100 mm, today you can find many other modifications. Sometimes such products are made of plastic (86x54 mm), but in most cases coated or uncoated cardboard with a density of 280–300 g/m2 is used. Post-printing work is also required. For example, to increase the convenience and durability of use, round cutting of corners and lamination are used.

Pocket products often have a calendar grid on one side and advertising on the other. The advantage of such printing products is that they can always be at hand. The convenient format allows this. Therefore, the calendar should be bright, but at the same time unobtrusive. To do this, it’s worth thinking through a design that will express an original idea and allow you to become a companion to every partner or client.

Original

These are non-standard products, which are often produced in single copies, maximum - a batch for corporate purposes or event participants. They are often made in the form of figures. Original calendars are developed individually:

the designer creates an unusual layout taking into account the client’s needs (corporate style, features of subsequent use, etc.) and the nuances of technology;
production consistently performs all operations to obtain a complete product.

Original calendars are produced in limited quantities for presentation to employees, clients or partners in honor of a specific event: a company’s birthday, a general holiday (for example, on the eve of Victory Day, if the company sells army equipment, etc.). Such products can become a gift for a loved one if they display valuable photographs, kind words, etc.

Family photos

You can make a beautiful DIY New Year's calendar by using family photographs, which should be prepared in advance.

The cropped photos are pasted onto the pages of the old desk calendar, and instead of months, the corresponding days are written down, which are counted down until the holiday.

Natural materials

Making a children's calendar with your own hands is quite simple; a large cardboard box decorated with natural materials is suitable for this.

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Cones and twigs, dried bouquets of flowers and leaves collected in the fall will be used; decorating such a craft with your children will give you a lot of pleasant and positive emotions.

Felt, cardboard and paper

Soft felt is great for creating a variety of crafts; it can be glued and stitched, and the paper is quite easy to process.

A cardboard base can easily replace wooden boards, and old photo frames will be an excellent base for beautiful and bright calendars.

Perpetual calendar with interchangeable decor and decorations

The technology for making a perpetual calendar with your own hands is no different from the previous options, but to make it you need to choose an original style.

Such a product will last quite a long time, so to implement this idea it is better to choose practical and wear-resistant materials, stylish decor and decorations that are attached with Velcro.

Program for creating calendars

This very high-quality, convenient and understandable program has been around for over ten years. It is actively updated by manufacturers - they are constantly adding new backgrounds, templates, formats, styles and effects. For example, a new version of “Calendar Design” was recently released.

You can download the program for creating calendars from the official website (link at the end of the review, as always), but for now let’s see what it can do in just a few clicks of the computer mouse...

These are just three annual templates, but here are three examples for a month...

Even lunar calendars can be easily and quickly made for yourself, relatives, loved ones or just friends as a gift...

Of course, this is just a drop in the ocean (I can’t show all the options in one article, even if I wanted to).

This wonderful program will really help you make an absolutely unique masterpiece calendar with any background, any size and style.

We make our own advent calendar for the New Year holidays

You can easily make a beautiful DIY Advent calendar from a large sheet of felt with sewn pockets and numbers made of velvet wire:

Pockets are cut out of one sheet of green felt according to the number of days in the month;
on the second sheet of material you need to place pockets and sew them according to the pattern;
numbers must be made from red velvet (chenille) wire;
using a glue gun, the finished wire numbers are glued to the pockets;
Wishes or tasks for the child are written on small pieces of thick colored paper;
pockets are filled with notes, small sweet treats and toys;
Snowflakes and bells cut out of felt are used to decorate the calendar.

An unusual do-it-yourself advent calendar for 2020 for a child can be prepared in advance, using it as a planner for the next year.

Download calendar maker

Link to the official download page of the program (at the end of the table below)…

Purpose:	An excellent program for creating calendars on your computer
Name of the program (utility):	Calendar Design
Manufacturer (author):	AMS Software®
Status:	Free (trial)
Category:	Calendars
Installer (archive) size:	160.4 MB
OS support:	Windows XP,7,8,10
Interface language:	Russian
Safety:	No viruses
Similar programs:	Ultimate CalendarInteractive Calendar
Link to installer/website:

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The authors’ website is home to a responsive user support service.

This program is paid, but not at all expensive - calculate how much it costs to annually purchase calendars (for home, for work, as a gift...) and agree with me.

By the way, you don’t need a powerful and expensive computer to create unique calendars in the program described above...

Another detailed video review from the manufacturers, the latest current version of the program...