My son is 19 months old and for a while we have been talking about letters, the days of the week and we talk about our daily schedule. My husband had this great idea to make a planner of sorts for our son to be able to look at and know what is going on for the given day. As he gets older he should be able to tell us what will happen each day. We color coded each paper depending on what it is, for example all social outings like playdates, babytime at the library will be yellow, church is purple, nap and bedtime are blue and so on. Later, we may put different chores he will need to accomplish at different times of the day.
We bought a whiteboard from Target that had this black frame to make it look a little better since we are putting it in our foyer. We bought the black container to put the cards we aren't using. It is magnetic, but I didn't have room for it on the board so I used the two sided foam tape to attach it to the frame.
We made four different sections for the different parts of the day. The morning, afternoon, late afternoon and night. I used 3x5 notecards cut into fourths to make the magnets. The days of the week I used the tape with Sharpie marker written on top.
I made an arrow to focus him on the current day.
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| Nap card |
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| Playdate card |
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| Close up |
We don't have a laminator and I didn't want to spend the time on each of these little cards to have them be ruined in a week....so we found these great self-seal laminating pouches! The best things about them is I can put more than one card in each pouch, seal it and then cut around the card.
I hot glued these magnetic buttons to the back of each of the laminated cards.
Being the crazy Type A personality I color coded everything into different categories. The problem is that we didn't want to have a giant white board and we didn't have space for one so the cards are a little small, which means the words and pictures are small. We want to also make cards with grandparents faces on them for when we go visit them. There are a lot more cards I want to make for different things we do and already my son is excited.
I used Scotch Duct Tape to create the dividers between the different categories.
We bought a whiteboard from Target that had this black frame to make it look a little better since we are putting it in our foyer. We bought the black container to put the cards we aren't using. It is magnetic, but I didn't have room for it on the board so I used the two sided foam tape to attach it to the frame.
We made four different sections for the different parts of the day. The morning, afternoon, late afternoon and night. I used 3x5 notecards cut into fourths to make the magnets. The days of the week I used the tape with Sharpie marker written on top.
I made an arrow to focus him on the current day.
We don't have a laminator and I didn't want to spend the time on each of these little cards to have them be ruined in a week....so we found these great self-seal laminating pouches! The best things about them is I can put more than one card in each pouch, seal it and then cut around the card.
Being the crazy Type A personality I color coded everything into different categories. The problem is that we didn't want to have a giant white board and we didn't have space for one so the cards are a little small, which means the words and pictures are small. We want to also make cards with grandparents faces on them for when we go visit them. There are a lot more cards I want to make for different things we do and already my son is excited.
