This is pretty straight forward. I saw the picture, I
liked the idea, I made it!
The Idea...
I used an old oak frame I bought at the thrift store
for $1 (painted it white to match my “soon to be Kitchen theme”. Then we went “shopping” at Lowes. I really did
need paint for the kitchen walls, but my secondary goal was to score a bunch of
free color samples for the Calendar. My kids are great at leaving the store
with a million of these in hand! I made sure to get the ones that already had a
small square cut out of them so I wouldn’t have to do it myself.
I put my son to work deciding what order the different shades
of blue should go in. When he was done we taped them down to the paper in the
frame, we went with a white background but any color paper or cloth can be used
to match your décor. I wrote the days of the week and taped them down also but
left the month and number spots blank to fill in with the dry erase marker. Then
we put the back on, hung it up and got to writing.
...Our finished Dry Erase Calendar.
I already had the white paint and white paper, plus the
dry erase markers at home. The paint color samples were free. So the only thing
I actually bought for this was the frame. Total cost: $1
