COTE & NOELIA

ACTIVITY 3 -  Craft. Make your own calendar

Children understand the concept of time better using their own calendar.  The best way is to make it visual, intuitive and experiential. Here we will make a circular calendar to help them understand the concept of time as ongoing and cyclic, which is more easily comprehended on their wheel year after year.

 

Now, you will make your own circular calendar consisting of 2 circles. The smaller circle is attached to the larger one with a split pin. The small circle is divided into 16 parts: 4 parts for the four seasons that contain 12 parts for the months of the year. The child can rotate the wheel each month for a new month and/or season. 

I recommend dividing it into different, intuitive colors, for example:

• winter and the months of winter in purple or blue

• spring and the months of spring in green

• summer and the months of summer in yellow or orange

• autumn and the months of autumn in red or brown 

 

In each season the children can draw a typical tree for that time of year, or something else he or she finds representative of that season.

 

Below you can see a picture of our calendar and if you press on the picture you can print one to start.

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Optionally, we can count the days of the week by attaching small clothespins to the top of your calendars, one for every day and each Monday you start again with one clothespin.