DIY Children’s Calendar – Free Calendar Printables for Kids!
Create a DIY Children’s Calendar using free printables! Calendar printables include days of the week, weather and more and are available in five languages with lots of fun ways to personalize the calendar to make it your own! Plus new calendar pages for 2021 and 2022 included!
*This post was originally published August 24th, 2015 and updated August 2021.
This DIY Children’s Calendar is a fun DIY and a great way for little ones to start their day. I created this calendar when my son was just a toddler and I have since enjoyed using it with both of my kids over the years. It has been an excellent way for my kids to learn their days of the week, months, and the weather and it has also given them a chance to be a part of planning our day.

The calendar is made with my free calendar printables including the days of the week, months, calendar pages, seasons, weather printables plus the cute bunnies kids can dress for the weather. There are calendar add-ons available in my Etsy shop including holiday cards, daily activity cards, preschool learning cards and more that all coordinate with the calendar.

This calendar started as a little project for my kids but has grown to include five languages! English, Spanish, French, Italian and now Hawaiian! These calendar printables were created in collaboration with parents and caregivers who speak these languages and helped translate the calendar. It has been a pleasure working with them and learning new things.


Below is the tutorial to create a DIY Children’s Calendar. There are so many different ways you can assemble your calendar and use the free printables. Here are a few examples – you can make your calendar as big or small, and as simple or intricate as you want! I have included details for each calendar pictured in this post.
Examples of Calendars






How to Make the DIY Children’s Calendar
Supplies Needed
- Calendar Printables from my Free Resource Library
- White paper – I use 110 lb white paper or colored cardstock like AstroBright Paper
- Paper Trimmer
- Scissors
- For Magnetic Calendar:
- Self-Laminating Sheets
- Magnetic Adhesive Sheets
- Magnetic Clips
- Magnetic Dry Erase Board.
- (This Magnetic Dry-Erase Board is close to the one I used from Board Dudes with the cork border but is larger than mine.)
- For Board Calendar:
- Foam Board, tri-fold board, or Chalkboard.
- Laminator and Thermal Laminating Pouches
- Stikki Clips
- Velcro Dots – 3/8″ Thin Clear Fasteners
- Double-Sided Tape – I used 1/2″ Scor-Tape
- For Magnetic Calendar:
Step-by-Step Tutorial
Step One: Print the calendar printables. You’ll find the main part of the calendar in my free Resource Library. There are a lot of options:
- Full Color in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Hawaiian
- Full color dual language in Spanish and Hawaiian
- Color-you-own in English
- Black and White in English for printing on colored cardstock
You’ll also find the bunnies, extra bunny clothing, calendar pages, extra weather printables and headers you can customize with your child’s name all available for free in my Resource Library.
Step Two: Laminate! If you are making the printables magnetic, I recommend you use the self-laminating sheets and only laminate the top of the printable pages. Since the back will be attached to magnetic sheets this helps keep the magnets strong. If you using the printables with Stikki-clips and Velcro Dots, use a laminator to make them durable.


Step Three: Cut out the calendar pieces. After laminating the pages, cut out all of the pieces using a paper trimmer and scissors.
Step Four: If making the pieces magnetic, cut the magnet sheets. This is when you would now arrange the cut calendar pieces on a magnet sheet and then cut the pieces out again with a small sharp scissors. Cutting the pieces out before placing them on the magnet sheets allows me to fit more pieces on each magnet sheet. It is also easier to cut through just the magnet sheet instead of through both the paper and magnet sheet.
Step Five: Assemble the calendar! Arrange the pieces until you like how your calendar is laid out.
If your calendar is magnetic, the pieces will be ready to use on a magnetic board. Add magnet clips to hold calendar add-ons like holiday and daily activity cards.
If using a foam board, tri-fold board or chalkboard, you can use things like Stikki-clips and Velcro Fasteners to attach your calendar pieces. First tape down anything that does not need to change (like the thermometer, question about the weather, “Today is” card) with tape. Next use Stikki-clips to hold the days of the week, months, year and weather cards.

Step 6: Don’t forget the bunnies! The bunnies kids can dress for the weather can be created with magnet sheets or without. If you make them out of magnet sheets make sure to just laminate the top with self-laminating sheets, this will help the clothing hold to the bunnies!
To make the bunnies without magnet sheets, you can use Velcro Brand Thin Clear Fasteners. They work great! Start by placing Velcro dots (the rough side) on the bunnies – one on the head, one on the feet, and three in the shirt area.
Cover those dots with the matching dots (the soft side), then place a piece of clothing on top of the bunny and hold down. Lift the piece of clothing off and the soft dots will be stuck to it. Repeat for all the pieces of clothing you want to use.
Step Seven: Add a customized header to your calendar! Use the file (from my free Resource Library) with Adobe Reader to customize any header for your calendar. You may already have Adobe Reader installed on your computer but if not, the software can be downloaded for free from Adobe.
Step Eight: Add some fun calendar extras! More Calendar add-ons are available in my Etsy shop including holiday cards, daily activity cards, preschool learning cards, animal holiday cards and much more! They coordinate with the rest of my calendar printables.
Want more ideas on how to set up your calendar?
Visit my Calendar Idea Page for more ways you can set up your calendar and ideas for cards you can use with it!
Where are all of the DIY Children’s Calendar files located?
Download the free calendar files from my Resource Library! Visit my Resource Library to download the free calendar printables. There is a entire section of my Library dedicated to my calendar printables. You’ll find the main calendar in five languages, calendar pages for 2021, bunnies plus additional bunny clothing and more!
Download calendar extras from my Etsy shop! Visit my Etsy shop to shop calendar extras like Holiday Cards, Daily Activity Cards, Preschool Learning Cards, Fun National Day Cards and more!
Hello, I am extremely grateful for these resources and have used them for several years now with my little one and it has helped her to read much earlier than normal. We still do our ritual every day tho as she loves it. I was trying to make another one in english for my child (hers has gotten all worn out) and in spanish for a little autistic spanish speaking child of a friend and I have been unable to download the calendar in any language, I keep going back and forth from the resource library to another page and cannot figure out how to download. Could you please help me?Thanks!
Hi! Of course, I’m happy to help! In the Resource Library you will want to go under “DIY Children’s Calendar”. Make sure you are selecting the black “Download” button under each file you want and not the blue “View the Tutorial” link. The blue link will take you to the post for instructions. After hitting the black button the file will automatically download. If you still have any problems please email me and I’m happy to send you the files you need! kimberly@craftingcheerfully.com. I’m so happy to hear your child has enjoyed using the calendar! :)
I wonder if you’d, at all, be interested in adding Hawaiian to these printouts? I am a Hawaiian speaker and working on materials for my daughter and I see that you’ve already done so with other languages. I’d be very interested in working with you if so.
Hi! Yes I’d be interested in adding Hawaiian! – Could you email me at craftingcheerfully@gmail.com and we can chat more? Thank you! :)
I came across your printable daily activity cards on Etsy and cant wait to print them out! After reading the file I saw we could come to your website for FREE printables, which I totally loved! Any idea or thought on how to make a few additional cards myself on the etsy file? I wanted to add fishing, kites, vacation?
Hi! Thank you for the message! I’m so happy you found my calendar printables! The activity cards from Etsy came with a few blank cards that you could add in your own activities by hand. Otherwise, I do offer a free monthly activity card every month and am always happy to take suggestions – flying kites would be perfect for that! I also create custom calendar cards so you can have anything you want created! Oh and I have a fishing card in my Sports and Movement card set if you want to check that out! Feel free to message me on Etsy – I’m always happy to help you find the cards you’re looking for or help create them! :)
Hi Kim, I was hoping you could tell me the name of your font you’ve used for your days/months etc? I would like to make up some holidays magnets to go with the printables.
Thanks so much :-)
Hi! It is called Sketch Block. Thank you! :)
Hi! Love this and so do my kids! Thank you! Just wondering how you attach the bunnies coats and such?
Hi! I used magnet sheets I picked up from Michaels. I have an affiliate link in the post. It was really easy to print the PDF’s off on my printer and then just stick them to the magnet sheets before cutting out the bunnies. You can read a bit more how I did it on this post: https://www.craftingcheerfully.com/diy-toddler-calendar-magnet-board/. You could also use velcro dots which would work as well! :)
Thanks for this Kim!!! We’ve been waiting for it! We love what you do!
Thank you for your kind words! I’m so happy you like the calendar :)
This calendar is so great! I am in the process of cutting everything out and am so excited to start using it with my kids! I was wondering if it would be possible to get the month sheet without any numbers. I was going to laminate it and hang it up so I could fill in everything myself and continue reusing it.
Thank you! I hope you and your kids have fun using the calendar! I added a blank calendar page to the 2017 calendar pages pdf document, it is the last page. Laminating and reusing it is a great idea! :) Happy Holidays!