Organize your life and your families with this DIY calendar. See how easy it is to make this homemade calendar and to do list with this tutorial.

DIY Calendar & To Do List

I used to LOVE post it notes. I’d write myself little reminders, try to keep myself organized. But then, I would get lost in post-its. They would get overwhelming with all the little notes and forget to throw some away. So that’s where dry erase boards came into play. All the notes were in one place, and not killing as many trees! I could easily check things off and erase them at the end of the day.

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The only problem is I didn’t like how dry erase boards look hanging on my walls at home. It reminds me of an office and that’s how I want my home to feel. Then I saw those fancy glass ones, but honestly for a piece of glass, my budget friendly wallet just couldn’t get myself to buy one.

After seeing ideas for making initials for families on floating frames and making one. I thought why not find a big one to make a calender or to-do list!!

I started scoping it out online and then I waited patiently for Michaels to have a sale. BAM! buy one, get one free = perfect for my budget friendly wallet.

I used my cricut and vinyl for this but you don’t actually need a cricut to do this. Since this a floating picture frame, it comes with two pieces of glass within the frame, meaning you can put anything between those two pieces and it should stay as the two pieces of glass lay flat to each other. You could use a ruler, exacto knife and contact paper to make what I did. The only differences is you would write the words in dry erase instead of them being cut out. You could change the colors each week which is kind of fun in my opinion. You’re only cutting simple lines and rectangles. or you can just use regular paper and a glue stick to just make it slightly stick in place, before assembling the frame back together. So lets get started.

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What you’ll need:

• floating frame
• contact paper or vinyl
• ruler
• scissors/x-acto knife or cricut/silhouette
• transfer tape(optional)
• dry erase markers

Calendar Steps:

1. Find a frame of your preference and size. My floating frame for the calendar is 21×17 including the frame.
2. Decide how big you want to make your calendar. I wanted mine the full size of the frame. IF you want to include your to do list on the same frame, then you’ll want to make your calendar smaller.
3. For these purposes: I’ll give you my dimensions. The calendar is 19 inches horizontally and 12 inches in height.
4. I cut 8 – 12 inch lines and 7- 19 inch lines ( the lines overlapped but you can’t even tell.)
5. Measure about 2 inches from the top of the frame and a 1/2 inch from the side.
6. Start by making the outline of the whole calendar (one big rectangle)
7. Add a horizontal line about 1/2 inch down from the top line. (these boxes will be for writing the days of the week)
8. Re-measure your space below the days of the week to the bottom of the rectangle so you can divide this space evenly. Divide that number by 5 since you’ll need 5 rows across for the calendar).
9. Once measured, start adding the horizontal lines across measuring as you go to make sure they are evenly spaced.
10. Now re-meausre your rectangle to make the vertical lines this time. You’ll need 7 vertical lines to make a space for each day of the week. So divide the total by 7.
11. If you would like to add colors behind the blocks or the days of the week, you can but it is easier with a cricut. OR  you can make a solid background behind the calendar using paper or vinyl.  Just make sure the paper isn’t too thick.
12. Write in your words like “month”, days of the week etc with a dry erase marker or vinyl with your cricut. (I used the cricut to cut out the word “month” “notes” and all the days of the week).

To Do List Steps:

1. Figure out your measurements for your board and decide how you want to set it up. (I choose to do a daily to-do list and a to-do list for long term stuff (aka eventually).  Also, I wanted a spot for meal planning dinners for the week. It’s something I  want to get better at and help save money).
2. Next, decided how big you want each different section. Since I have 3 different categories on my to-do list, I decided to make the daily to-do list and meals the biggest, and the evenutally to-do list smaller.
3. Cut the appropriate amount of lines for each of your categories (This is based on your preference). I cut long lines for the daily to-do list and the menu and smaller lines into columns for the eventually list. The eventually list is usually short blurbs compared to the daily list and our meals.
4. Decide how much space you want in between each line. I kept mine to 1/2 inch on to-do lists and for the menu I gave a little more room (since I like variety with my meals.)
5. The words I did with my cricut and in a bigger font than I write my to-do list. You can easily just write these with a dry erase marker and that way you can use it for other things. Also, I just used the first letter of each day of the week to keep the length of my lines for writing.
6. Put the glasses back together and add the frame on to the back.

Congrats you did it! You are now one organized gal!

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