Product Description

Make Your Own Calendar is back for 2009! Each month features a space for kids to create their own pictures, as well as clever border designs to color in. There are also over 200 colorful stickers included to mark special dates. Whimsical artwork from Steve Haskamp gives this calendar a fresh look, and invites kids to personalize it and make it their own.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #459493 in Books
• Published on: 2008-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Calendar
• 24 pages

About the Author
Steve Haskamp has illustrated Make Your Own Calendar every year since 2004. He is also the illustrator of several children's books including the enormously popular Five Silly Moneys and Five Little Ladybugs.

Customer Reviews

an annual favorite with our kids
Our kids (ages 5 and 8) are in love with this item. This is our 3rd or 4th year of buying the calendars. I pre-order them, and the kids anticipate the calendars' August arrival date the way they would anticipate Christmas or their birthdays. They spend a lot of time discussing what they will draw for each month, and they enjoy the coloring parts and putting on the special occasion stickers. It is a long-term project. They will spend weeks or even months on their calendars. This is a perfect gift for kids with a long attention span who like art projects. If you give this gift in December, though, it probably won't be finished by January 1, so give it earlier in the fall.

This book will make 2009 special for your kids
For teachers, parents and day-care staff, there is a way to keep those children occupied! Make Your Own Calendar 2009 is an engaging and interesting craft book that will hold their interest. Filled with colorable pictures and empty areas that can be used to draw, this calendar will encourage their creativity. As an added bonus, about 200 stickers are packaged with the book.

The calendar can also be used for educational purposes. Teaching children the date/calendar system can be a daunting task. But with this handy tool, it will be much easier to explain and show them since they will have a keen interest in something they have worked on. Each page comes with month-appropriate pictures surrounding it, which in itself can be used as an educational tool to explain the major holidays and significance of each month. Children will also be exposed to the diversity present in different cultures as important festivals and holidays of many different cultures are noted.

Not only is Make Your Own Calendar 2009 something that can be used to keep your children busy, but it can also be used to expand their knowledge. And the most important thing is that it can be a very fun activity! I am definitely looking forward to 2009 so that I can use my self-made calendar!

Armchair Interviews says: This would be a perfect gift.

Great for my four-year-old daughter
This is the second year that my daughter has had a Make Your Own Calendar. She loves it. At the beginning of each month she loves to place the stickers on that month, color in the cute borders, and make her own artwork for that month. It's something special for her to do and look forward to each month and then she gets to have it hanging on the wall all month long. It's also a great tool (as any calendar would be) to help her learn the days of the week, number sequencing, and months of the year.