Assignment:   Create a photo calendar

Goals:    Choose from a variety of templates to create your own personalized photo calendar.        

Tools:     MS Word, Digital photos        

Total Production Cost:   12 month calendar including cover and binder comb is $1.00.

 

There are many programs that are designed to create a calendar template. There is even an entire website

that you can subscribe to to create a huge variety of ready to use templates.

http://www.calendarsthatwork.com/ (2 months at a time from a limited collection

are free...or $15 for a 1 yr premium membership.)

One simple way is to use a template built into MSWord that generates monthly calendars

for you with just a few mouse clicks:

 

Instruction:    

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Click File and click New (don't use Ctrl + N)
3. Find the Templates section (right side) and click "On my computer..."

   

4. Click the Other Documents tab.
5. Double-click Calendar Wizard.

6. Follow the steps in the wizard.

   Tips: Choose portrait...especially if most of your pictures are horizontal. Choose to "leave room for your picture?"

7. Insert a pictures and make any other personalize changes desired for each month.

Another variation of the above is to NOT "leave room for your picture" and make a separate page for each month

so that like a traditional calendar, the month is at the bottom and the pictures is at the top.

 

 

Sample:

Here is what mine looked liked using the MS Word built in calendar maker. I ran the template, then choose a photo for each month. I did do a little custom changes by making the black month bar smaller, shifting the month days down which included combing a couple of days when the month went to 6 lines (Sept and Dec).

 

 

Here is sample calendar in a PDF format.

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