More Craftiness

Every week our family holds “Family Home Evening”.    This is a chance for us to spend some time together having fun and teaching each other about different gospel topics.  Each member of the family is given a small assignment.  We take turns preparing a lesson, choosing songs, and making treats.  Sometimes we also play a game or have another activity.  We had been using two paper plates attached with a brad to keep track of the assignments.  While this was functional, I wanted to make something that looked a little nicer to hang on the wall.  Here is the new family home evening chart:

Calendar Blocks

Once each month I have been getting together with a group of friends for a craft night.  We take turns hosting it and coming up with the craft.  In September we made some really cute Christmas or Halloween calendar blocks.

I really liked the idea and decided to also make some for a teacher gift, and some that would work year-round in our home.  For the teacher gift I used three blocks so that she would be able to count up to the 100^th day of school if she wanted to.  In our elementary school they always celebrate the 100^th day.

For our home, I wanted to be able to exchange month names throughout the year.  This is what I came up with.

I printed the month names, cut them in strips, stamped them, then coated each strip in mod podge and a spray sealer.  I put two eyelets in the top of each one.

I spaced the eyelets to hang on hardware that I installed on the bottom block.

The months wouldn’t all fit on one side, so I put some on the back of the block as well.  That way I could keep all the pieces in one place.

I am happy with how they turned out!  Many thanks to Suzie for sharing the calendar block idea and for cutting out the vinyl!