
Calendar Collection
A craft for each month's observances and special days.
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Every activity comes in versions for the months, occasions and countries you might want. Pick the kind first, then open it to find the one you need.
The everyday library. Print and go, no preparation, nothing to order in advance.
17 activities

Familiar words in an open grid, generously set.

Clues from the general knowledge they grew up with.

Letters spaced loosely enough to find without strain.

Familiar words, unscrambled one at a time.

Four, six and nine-square grids.

Riddles that invite a guess rather than demand one.

Wide paths and short routes.

Two pictures, a handful of gentle differences.

A picture with something taken out, drawn large.

One thing that doesn't belong, on an uncrowded page.

Things to count in a clear, colorful scene.

Questions from the era and places they know best.

Familiar themes that bring a room together.

Light jokes and one-liners to read aloud.

Thick outlines, uncrowded scenes, made for adults.

Guided art with simple instructions on the page.

Quiet, repetitive pages for an unsettled hour.
Every activity format built around one country — landmarks in the bingo cards, local vocabulary in the word searches, traditions in the trivia.
11 countries

Word searches full of the names for things — galah, billabong, ute. Bingo cards of harbour landmarks, trivia about the long drive across the middle, and a coastline to colour.

The rhythm of carnival, the birds of the rainforest, and a football match in a crowded street. Colouring pages of feathered costumes, and trivia that starts more conversations than it settles.

Pyramids and the river that made them possible. Mazes through temple corridors, word searches of gods and pharaohs, and a spot-the-difference set among the market stalls.

Bread, cheese, and a tower everyone recognises. Crosswords built on food words, a colouring page of lavender rows, and trivia about the places people honeymooned.

White walls, blue doors, and light on water. Word grids of island names, a maze through a hillside village, and colouring pages of boats drawn up on the sand.

Colour everywhere — marigolds, silk, spice bowls, painted elephants. Bingo cards of festival objects, and trivia about a country most people know something about but not much.

Kitchens, coastlines and very old stone. Word searches of food that needs no translation, a colouring page of a hill town, and trivia that usually ends with somebody's holiday story.

Blossom, mountains, paper and tea. Folding activities, word grids of everyday words, and a colouring page of a mountain almost everyone can picture.

Papel picado banners and market colour, a stepped pyramid older than anyone can quite believe, and marigolds by the armful. Word searches of food words that need no translation, bingo cards of things you'd see in a village square, and trivia that usually turns into somebody's story about a trip.

Wide grassland and the animals in it, a flat-topped mountain, and a coastline at the end of the world. Counting pages of a herd, and trivia about a country with eleven languages.

Baseball, diners, road trips and the songs from the radio. Bingo cards of things you'd see from a car window, and trivia that lands differently depending on which decade you remember.
Every activity format themed to that month's observances and special days, so a full calendar is already planned.
12 months

Fresh starts and the quiet after. Word searches of resolutions nobody keeps, colouring pages of winter light, and trivia about what the year was like when they were twenty.

Hearts to cut out, cards to make, and the sweets that only appear this month. Word grids of love songs, and trivia about first dances.

Green everything. Shamrocks to colour, word searches of Irish place names, mazes through a field of clover, and trivia about the parade.

Eggs to decorate, spring to notice. Counting pages of things in a basket, colouring of new leaves and blossom, and a maze to the end of a garden path.

Flowers, cards, and the recipes that came down through somebody's mother. Word searches of blooms, and trivia about the songs playing when they were young.

Sheds, fishing, cars and the smell of cut grass. Crosswords of tools and makes, colouring of a long evening, and trivia about first jobs.

Flags, fireworks and food eaten outside. Counting pages of stars, bingo cards of parade sights, and word searches of towns and states.

The heat, the harvest, the last long days. Colouring pages of sunflowers, counting pages of a full basket, and trivia about summers spent somewhere else.

The month for looking back together. Photo cards to talk around, story prompts about the year they were born, and word grids of names from the family.

Pumpkins, orange leaves and the first cold evening. Mazes through a spooky house, colouring pages of a lit porch, and spot-the-difference among the costumes.

A long table and everything on it. Word searches of the dishes, counting pages of place settings, and trivia about who used to do the cooking.

Lights, paper, carols and the smell of the kitchen. Colouring pages of a decorated tree, word grids of carol titles, and a maze through a snowy street.