It’s not hard to figure out how useful combining magnets and calendars could potentially be, but many people do not realise the full scope of benefits and applications these handy household and business staples truly provide. Businesspeople, educators, parents, and those who are environmentally conscious can all make good use of magnetic calendars, and here’s how:
For Parents and Teachers
If you have young children at home, or you are an educator working with preschool or kindergarten-aged children, you’ll be interested to know that magnetic calendars make a wonderful vehicle for helping them to learn about the days, weeks, and months of the year, along with the seasons, the weather, and major holidays. Colourful and interactive calendars can be purchased that are designed for exactly this purpose. Young children love to play with magnets, so why not put that penchant to good use?
For the Environmentally-Conscious
Eschewing traditional calendars is, of course, a good way reduce paper waste, and those who are doing everything they can to get creative and reduce their carbon footprints will be interested in magnetic calendars as a fun “DIY” project. To make a truly eco-friendly reusable calendar, get your hands on a black vinyl magnetic chalkboard and create 31 moveable number magnets from scratch. Divide the chalkboard up into the requisite number of squares and create a custom frame for it that suits the decor of your kitchen; voila, you have an attractive calendar that can be wiped off and reused from month to month and year to year, helping to leave our forests intact. Plus, the magnetic numbers can be used to easily “pin” notes to the calendar.
If you don’t have time to make your own, you can easily purchase a magnetic dry-erase calendar that can be written on with marker and then wiped clean with a brush.
For Businesspeople
Quite a range of magnetic calendars are available to help you promote your services as a businessperson, including clever designs with a “pop out” space in the middle for your business card—turning your card into a separate magnet and the centre of the calendar into a space for the recipient to put a photograph of his or her choice. Or, you can opt for a personalized calendar that features your business logo at the top in a bold and stylish way. These items can easily be given out for free at business events, or kept by one’s cash register to be taken freely when a customer makes a purchase.
Nothing ensures that your business’s name stays in someone’s mind quite like them having it up on the fridge all year round, making these calendars one of the most useful (and least intrusive) promotional items a business owner can obtain. As an added bonus, they are very inexpensive to make, and thus can be bought and distributed in large volume.