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Family Photo Projects

This is something for everyone who can’t wait for a specific date to finally arrive. Be it Christmas, Chanukah or a birthday. This example calendar is a Christmas one, which starts on the first of December and ends on the 25^th but you could also have just 8 windows for all the days of Chanukah for example. With this one you get to open one window every day, which helps you to count down all the days to Christmas day and makes the waiting time more enjoyable because every morning there is another little surprise picture behind a window. Naturally you would change your choice of pictures a little to go along with the calendar purpose and season. 

• A fairly large picture (super A3 is good) of a house with 25 windows (doors will work too).
• Another large piece of paper the same size as the house to go behind it.
• 25 smaller nice pictures to put behind the windows.
• Scissors.
• Glue Stick.
• Gold glitter or fake snow (optional).
• String for hanging up the finished calendar.

Make a large printout or color photocopy of your house.

The next step is numbering all your windows from 1 through to 25 (that one is usually the door or largest window) If you print your picture at home you may want to put the numbers on in the computer. Put the numbers on randomly so it is more fun to look for the correct number every day.

Then very carefully (use an exacto knife cautiously) cut along three sides of every window. There are a few different possibilities: by cutting three sides I mean top bottom and one side, the window will stay attached like on hinges to the side you did not cut. If you cut both sides and the bottom it will open towards the top and if you cut top and bottom and through the middle your window will open with two shutters like French windows. 

In my calendar house the windows were a little narrow for certain photographs so I cut out the sides of those windows a little wider than they are in reality to accommodate for that. Watch out not to cut out the entire window by mistake or you will have to start all over again. And don’t open the windows fully because they won’t shut properly after you opened them and then people can peep at your photos behind and all the suspense is gone.

Once you have cut the 3 sides of the entire windows place the big house photo on top of the second piece of paper, which should be exactly the same size as the house so you can’t tell that there is anything behind it. 

While keeping both papers exactly on top of each other gently lift each window flap and try to make little marks with a very sharp pencil onto the bottom sheet in the corners of each window to mark the visible area. That way you will have a guide on the second sheet of where to place your smaller photographs.

Now take away the covering house picture and glue every small photo in the correct position that you planned it to be in.  

You can actually place the house cover back on and check on the correct positioning by gently lifting the windows.

When you are done, glue the covering house sheet on top of the paper sheet with the 25 smaller photos. Put glue only in between the photos.

Now your calendar is finished. You can decorate the outside house with additional glitter or fake snow if you want and make two holes in the top for hanging up the calendar with a piece of string.

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