Handprint Calendar

[hiipysue]

Originally Posted by A_Pre-K_Teacher

For those of you that make the calendar, what do you substitute with for those that don't celebrate holidays - christmas and st.patricks day?

We don't do Christmas either. I was going to do a snowman with "fist prints" and find a cute poem to go with it. For march-it is reading month and music in our schools monthe. You could do music notes with thumb prints, or maybe a book using two hands? Good luck!

[hiipysue]

Thanks. I think I will try doing it this way. I already have the cover done, and will have kids do the apply and pumpkin in the next couple of weeks. Thanks!

[paige407]

I started this today!! Now I am feeling pressed for time to complete a Christmas project we started in September. I think it will be time consuming, but it is darling. We did the January fingerprints as snowflakes, and it does look cute.
I just google'd calendar images and resized the one I liked to fit the page and then typed up the poem on my own. I was waiting and waiting for the new 2010 update, but felt like I needed to get moving! Hope it turns out!

[DizneeTeachR]

I love handprint stuff!!! I have made up my own poems to go with some things. I will use some of the other poems & go from there. I like to take their basic idea, but make it my own...

[mrsammieb]

I teach kindergarten and this is my one big cute thing I get to do! Since I teach in a public school I leave out the religious holidays so this is my month to month layout:
January- snowflake
Feb- heart
Mar- leprechaun
April-butterfly
May-Tulips
June- goldfish
July- American Flag
Aug- sun
Sept-apple
October- pumpkin
Nov turkey
Dec- mittens

It does take a while and I print the calendars in color on regular paper but staple it to oak tag. I also add details to the picture, so like for tulips I add grass and little tulips in colored pencils... it is cute!

[lovetoscrap]

I love this idea but our school doesn't have a binding machine. Are there places that do binding if I took the finished products in?

[czacza]

My local Staples has a binding service. You could also check at a teacher store-sometimes they have laminating and other 'teacher tools' that you can use for a cost.

[TeacherSandra]

I love this idea!
2 questions though, how much does it cost to put it all together? and does anyone have another idea for the leprachaun (March)?

[DizneeTeachR]

Sandra.... I'm thinking you could do something like the sun, but make it a little more orange color so it looks like a lion. I haven't done that, I'm also thinking maybe having the kids make a fist & paint the flat part & knuckles white & maybe it would look like a lamb face...like I said haven't done it just trying to envision it.

[teacher36]

Originally Posted by TeacherSandra

I love this idea!
2 questions though, how much does it cost to put it all together? and does anyone have another idea for the leprachaun (March)?

I didn't bind mine or laminate them. I purchased the metal rings from staples for a couple of dollars and used those to put it all together. (I used the leprachaun for March, but I'm thinking about using birds this year and a poem about spring). I still have to figure out the handprint though!