Calendars

Cadette & Senior Group 3033 worked with a Daisy troop one year and helped them all make a calendar for their parents. These were a really big hit!

Materials
For each calender you need:
12 large sheets of construction paper (approx. 18 X 9 inches).
calendar pages (We photo copied off the calender pages for each Daisy for the upcoming year.)
glue
various craft supplies - use your imagination!

Directions

Place your construction paper in front of you so the narrow side is at the top and glue the calender page for the month you are working on, to the bottom half of the construction paper. Then decorate the top half any way you want.

Some examples:

March: Cut out kite shapes from scraps of print material, and put out all the leftover bits of ribbon you have. The girls can glue on the kites and add ribbon tails.

April: Cut a large umbrella shape from wall paper scraps and boots from vinyl scraps. Using aluminum foil cut out a large puddle shape and glue to your calendar page. Glue the boots in the middle of the puddle and then glue the umbrella over the tops of the boots. We added a pipecleaner handle to our umbrella and then drew on some raindrops with our crayons and had a picture of a small child jumping in a puddle.

Use your imagination - come up with a different page that goes with each month - flowers for May, a beach scene (glue on real sand) for July or August, a school bus for September, hand print turkeys for Thanksgiving............

When you have all 12 months finished, punch two holes in the top of each page, stack them up in order and thread a piece of ribbon down through one set of holes and then back up through the other set. Leaving a little slack tie the ends of the ribbon in a bow. The extra bit of slack can be pulled to the back of your calendar and used as the hanging loop.

This kept the Daisies busy for several meetings and gave the older girls a great way to earn service hours. The Daisies had a gift that their parents could really use and the parents had a great way to display some of their daughter's artwork. The parents really liked their gifts and it let us use up a lot of the little bits and pieces of craft supplies that had been left over from other projects during our years as Girl Scouts.