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Page-a-day calendars are often made as recreational activities in elderly care facilities.
Some facilities create them as a year-end tradition.
A calendar made by everyone brightens up a room just by being displayed.
However, rather than making the same kind every year, you might want to try something with a fresh twist.
So this time, we’re introducing a variety of handmade page-a-day calendar ideas.
We’ve selected designs that are easy for older adults to flip and that can be used at home as well.
For people with dementia, recognizing the date can be challenging.
Making it a daily habit to flip the calendar can help them stay aware of the date.
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[For Seniors] Make Every Day Fun! A Roundup of Handmade Tear-Off Calendars (1–10)
A daily flip calendar made with a corkboard
Here’s a tear-off daily calendar made with a corkboard.
Corkboards are handy for pinning photos, notes, and more, and you can easily prepare one since they’re even sold at 100-yen shops.
Attach laminated date, day-of-the-week, and weather cards to the corkboard, add rings, and hang them.
It looks even nicer if you print cute illustrations or photos in advance and stick them onto the corkboard.
It’s also great for older adults—they can take the finished piece home and display it wherever they like by tying a string to the frame or setting it on a stand.
Perpetual calendar that also shows the weather
How about making a perpetual calendar that also shows the weather? This idea uses a rectangular photo frame with hooks attached inside, from which you hang cards with the date, day of the week, and weather.
In addition to basics like “sunny,” “rainy,” and “cloudy,” it might be nice to include options such as “dense fog” and “storm.” It could prompt you to look outside and wonder, “What’s the weather like today?” Also, representing the weather with icons instead of text could be fun.
digital number(s)
A handmade flip calendar that uses “digital-style numerals” is highly legible for older adults and makes the date easy to see—a major advantage.
The bold, clear numbers are easy to read even for those with vision concerns, providing reassurance in daily life.
Its modern, clean design blends naturally with a room’s decor and makes changing the date enjoyable.
Simply looking at the numbers helps reinforce awareness of the date, which can also support maintaining a daily routine.
It’s a practical, cleverly designed handmade item that adds color to everyday life.
A page-a-day calendar you can make with materials from the 100-yen shop
When you go to a 100-yen shop, don’t you ever think, “They even have this?” You can find all sorts of things at 100-yen stores.
So let’s use some 100-yen items to make a daily tear-off calendar.
Start by adding the dates to sheets of paper.
For the date cards, you can turn the numbers into coloring pages, or print them out using a different font for each day.
Use cardstock to make a decorative backing for the cards.
If the calendar can stand on its own, you can place it in small spaces around the room.
Older adults can also take the finished piece home and display it in their own rooms.
Origami Block Calendar
There are many different kinds of tear-off calendars, aren’t there? This time, we’ll introduce a project where turning the blocks changes the month and date.
We’ll fold origami to make the blocks.
First, crease the origami paper, then fold it into a box shape.
Because origami uses your fingertips a lot, it can help activate the brain and serve as good finger training.
You’ll combine two box shapes; the trick is to slightly flatten the one that goes inside to make it easier to insert.
Write the days of the week and numbers on them and line them up, and your block calendar is complete.
If you make a stand for the blocks, it will look even nicer.
A daily tear-off calendar that focuses on the typography
Let me introduce a project that focuses on calendar dates.
Every day, we flip a card with the date written on it, right? We turn that date into a coloring activity.
Coloring uses the fingertips a lot, which is said to help activate the brain.
Many nerves that connect to the brain are concentrated in the hands and fingers.
By moving your fingertips while coloring, the stimulation is transmitted to the brain, which helps boost brain activity.
Let’s color the date numbers from 0 to 9 for the cards.
Try designing it to suit older adults—for example, by dividing the areas to color for each calendar date into finer sections.
Daily tear-off calendar made with a planner
Let’s make a lovely calendar by making good use of a planner.
There are even products that let you customize and create your own planner to your liking.
Prepare paper that can serve as planner pages so you can make a tear-off daily calendar.
Using planner paper—whether with illustrations or completely blank—write in the dates and add stickers.
Of course, it also works with non-removable planners without binders.
Creating a calendar with originality for each day should make for a fun project.