Cute Printable Calendars

A year of pastel, and then the wall around it

Every month has its own small kawaii scene in pink, lilac and cream: a bundled up character in January, a picnic in May, a paddling pool in July, fairy lights in December. The palette never changes, so the twelve pages read as one set rather than twelve downloads that happen to share a folder.

What happens next is the part most cute calendar pages ignore. A pastel month rarely goes on a wall by itself. It goes next to a chore chart, a reward chart, a laminated grid the school year gets rewritten into, and a rota that nobody agreed to but everyone follows. So the extra sheets on this page are the rest of that wall, drawn in exactly the same palette so it finally matches.

Hearts in the margins, corners on the boxes

The heart border sheet runs a column of small pink hearts down both outer margins. They sit entirely outside the grid, in paper that was blank anyway, so the sheet gains a decorated edge and not one day box loses a millimetre of writing room. It is the difference between a calendar that is decorated and a calendar with a picture stuck at the top.

The rounded sheet gives every day box a twelve point corner radius. It sounds like nothing and it changes everything: a square grid reads as a spreadsheet, a rounded one reads as a sticker sheet, and children treat the two very differently. If a child is going to be asked to write in it, print the rounded one.

The charts children actually fill in

The chore chart is the same palette as the calendar: a name line, a week line, ten job rows and a tick box for every day. The reward version trades two rows for a star tally column and a prize line at the foot, which is the mechanic that works at the age where a sticker is a currency and a lecture is not. Both are undated, so one print survives every week of the year.

If a chore chart is the main thing you came for rather than a companion to a calendar, the chore chart page has it in every design plus five row and fourteen row versions for different sized households.

Laminating, and the other week start

The undated pastel grid is the single most reprinted sheet in this collection, and classrooms are the reason. Print it once, laminate it, write the month at the top with a dry wipe pen, and the same sheet runs from September to July. Nothing on it expires, because nothing on it is a date.

The last sheet changes which day the week opens on. The English sheets here open on Sunday, the American wall calendar convention; the extra sheet opens on Monday, which is the week school timetables, swimming lessons and after school clubs are all written against. Nothing else about it differs. Same grid, same art, same six rows.

Questions about the cute set

Will these survive being coloured in?

The illustrations are printed, not outlines, so they are not colouring pages. The day boxes are another matter: they are deliberately plain and pale, and a pencil, a felt tip or a sticker all sit on them without fighting the background. If you want actual line art to colour, print the rounded sheet, which has the largest uninterrupted white area of anything in this collection.

Is the pink too pale to photocopy?

The pastels are light by design, and a poor photocopier will wash them out further. Print from the PDF rather than copying a copy: these are vector files, so every print is a first generation print at whatever size you ask for. If you must copy, the heart border and the rounded sheet hold up best, because both carry their design in line work rather than in tint.

Can I get a reward chart with more than eight jobs?

Not in the reward layout, because the star column and the prize line take that room. The plain chore chart on this page runs ten rows, and the chore chart page has a fourteen row version for a whole household. A common answer is to print the fourteen row chart for the household and the pastel reward chart for the one child who needs the stars.