Fun Photo Calendar Ideas for Keeping Track of Year Round Celebrations

If you think a personalized photo calendar is a great idea but can't be bothered (especially if it's way past January), think again!

You can keep birthdays, reminders, holidays and school events on a calendar that's easy to create. Just drag and drop photos into standard calendar templates. Better yet, re-use the same personalized information year after year. Enter birthdays, holidays, and other dates once and then reapply them when you make next year's calendar.

Photo gift sites like Shutterfly, Photoworks and Snapfish never delete your projects. All your information is saved until you decide to change or delete it.

Designer Calendars

Our pick are these designer calendars from Photoworks. We really like the choices of vertical and horizontal designs in five different sizes, all printed on heavyweight card stock.

We also like being able to print full bleed (right to the edge of the paper), and add a photo to the month page itself, like in the "Really Big Calendar Picnic" style, show here. They are more expensive than other custom calendars, but we think they're far superior in design.

More designer calendars

Best Value Calendar

The best value calendar comes from Kodak Gallery. For $19 you get a standard 8.5x11 calendar (17x11 open) customized with up to four photos per month. Click here for more low priced calendars

More Standard Size Calendars

The usual size for a calendar is 8.5x11 (17x11 open). You can also find a slightly bigger "premium" style 11.5x14 (23x14 open), like you'd find at bookstores or art stores. Add one or more photos per month. Click here for more standard size calendars

Ideas

Here are two great reasons to create a personalized photo calendar.

Wedding Calendar

Let's say you are engaged for a year. Why not create a calendar specifically geared to your wedding, that counts down the months to the big day and has all the important dates and deadlines pre-printed on each month. Add fun pictures of you and your partner, bridesmaids and groomsmen.

A wedding calendar makes a great gift for everyone in your wedding party (and will hopefully keep the team on track)!

Baby's First Year

A Baby's First Year calendar keeps a record of all those special firsts that happen over the next 12 or 18 months once the little one arrives. Obviously you won't be able to use photos from baby's first year, but here's some ideas of photos you can use: first week photos (calendars only take a week or so to arrive so you still have time to incorporate some early pictures), seasonal photos, baby shower photos, and our favorite, artistic, close-up shots of baby toys and books, baby's room, crib, teddy bear, and so on.