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Home / Projects / Home Decor / DIY Acrylic Wall Calendar with FREE SVG Cut File

DIY Acrylic Wall Calendar with FREE SVG Cut File

July 6, 2021 By //  by Hannah 13 Comments

DIY acrylic calendar for wall with free svg file

I’ve been wanting to get more organized by adding a wall calendar to my office.  I love the look of the clear acrylic wall calendars and figured it would be easy enough to make my own since I have a Silhouette cameo.  In this post I’ll walk through my process to make a DIY acrylic wall calendar and share my design in a free SVG file that you can use with your vinyl cutting machine.

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How to make an acrylic wall calendar

Materials

18″x24″ Clear Acrylic Sheet

(4) Standoffs

Vinyl (roll or (3) 12″x12″ sheets)

Transfer paper

Markers

Tools

Drill

Step drill bit (or 1/2″ twist bit)

Vinyl Cutting Machine (Silhouette or Cricut)

Cutting mat

Vinyl weeding tools

Tape measure

The materials for this project cost me less than $20.

DIY Acrylic wall calendar

Step 1 – Drill holes in acrylic for standoffs

Since I used an 18″x24″ Acrylic Sheet, I went with the ¾” diameter x 1” depth standoffs.  In order to attach the acrylic wall calendar to the wall you’ll need to first drill holes for the standoffs to feed through.  

Each of the holes were centered 1” in both directions from each corner.  

Calendar Dimensions

To drill the holes you can use either a hand drill or a drill press.  

I like to use as step drill bit when drilling through acrylic since it creates a clean hole without any cracks.  A standard twist bit can work as well but you’ll probably have a small crack around the hole.  I have a whole post about step drill bits if you want to learn more about them.  

When drilling holes in acrylic I would recommend keeping the protective sheet on until after you’ve drilled the hole.    

I used a step drill bit with a max diameter of 1/2″ to create a  1/2″ diameter hole.

Step drill bit to cut acrylic

This is what it looks like with the protective plastic sheet still on. 

Step drill bit to cut acrylic 3

Once you peel it up you’ll have a perfect hole!  

Step drill bit to cut acrylic 4

Step 2 – Cut the vinyl

You can either design your own calendar or download my free template.  To access my design just enter your name and email address in the form below.  We’ll send an SVG and PNG file straight to your inbox!

License info: 100% free for personal use only.  Files cannot be resold, modified or used commercially.  

For this step you will need a vinyl cutting machine such as a Silhouette or Cricut.  

Be sure to select a vinyl color that will contrast with your wall color.  For example, if you have light walls you will want a dark vinyl.  If your walls are dark you would be better off with a light colored vinyl so that you can easily see it. 

DIY Acrylic wall calendar with svg file 7

I uploaded my svg file to silhouette studio and then sized the calendar so that the height would fit on a single 12”x12” vinyl sheet.  As you can see below, the calendar is too wide to fit on a single sheet. 

DIY Acrylic wall calendar with svg file 4

On a second 12″x12″ sheet of vinyl I cut  Friday-Saturday and the lines for the to do list.

DIY Acrylic wall calendar with svg file 8

I used one final sheet of vinyl to cut the words “Month” and “To do”

Step 3 – Transfer vinyl to the acrylic

Be sure to clean the acrylic before you apply the vinyl.  Mine attracted a bunch of fuzz and dog hair so I cleaned it with some Windex before applying any vinyl.  

I used transfer paper to properly align the two parts of the calendar and trimmed the excess as needed.  

The bottom left of the calendar was spaced 2” from the left side and bottom of the acrylic sheet as shown below.  

Calendar Dimensions

I used little scrap pieces of vinyl to mark the corners and keep the vinyl as straight as possible as I transferred it to the acrylic.  

DIY Acrylic wall calendar with svg file 9

Once the first part of the calendar was transferred, I lined up the second part and the to do lines.  Lastly, I added the “month” and “to do” titles.

DIY Acrylic wall calendar with svg file 9

Step 4 – Hang calendar on wall

Position the calendar where you want on your wall and then mark in the center of each of the 4 holes with a pencil.

Drill 4 holes in your wall where you have marked to install the wall anchors.

Attach the back portion of the standoff with the screws that were provided.

Place a rubber washer on each side of the acrylic sheet and then screw in the front portion of the standoffs to hold the acrylic sheet in place.    

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Step 5 – Write on your DIY acrylic wall calendar

You can use standard dry erase markers to write on your calendar.  Dry erase markers that aren’t permanent can be wiped off using a rag or paper towel.  

DIY acrylic calendar for wall with free svg file

There you have it!  This project was super simple and inexpensive.  I’m excited to have a dedicated place to track my to-do items and hopefully it’ll help me stay on top of them better.  I like that I won’t have to continue buying new calendars every year since I can just update it myself for each month.

Other DIY organization projects:

  • DIY Pegboard with weekly calendar 
  • Ironing board and iron holder
  • Marathon medal display

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Comments

  1. Our Hopeful Home

    July 10, 2021 at 11:57 pm

    SO impressive! Looks very professional –love it! Thanks for sharing at Vintage Charm. Pinned. xo Kathleen

    Reply
    • Hannah

      July 17, 2021 at 1:06 pm

      Thank you Kathleen. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Contractorfinder

    July 29, 2021 at 12:55 pm

    wow, it’s a cool glider, I really want to repeat this thing, you can do all sorts of things, for example, keep track of all kinds of expenses. Just a question, why did you use Plexiglas for this product? it is not always comfortable to work with it, it often overheats, melts. Thought. this diy is not for the most beginners, but for people who know how to work with the material

    Reply
    • Hannah

      July 30, 2021 at 5:05 pm

      Thanks. It’s a precut sheet of plexiglass so this is definitely a beginner DIY project. You just need to drill holes in it which is super easy.

      Reply
  3. Jenn

    January 9, 2022 at 3:25 pm

    Hi there, I tried to cut these on my cricut yesterday and for some reason it just cut 1 line and didn’t cut the outline of the calendar for me. I had a bunch of squares to weed out but no outline of the days if you know what I mean. Do you know why this happen? Am I doing something wrong? I really love this template and hoping I can get it to cut properly for me

    Reply
    • Hannah

      January 15, 2022 at 1:43 pm

      I wish I could be of more help with this question but I am not familiar with Cricut design space. I use a silhouette. If anyone reading this comment can help Jenn out please reply.

      Reply
    • Stephanie

      April 8, 2022 at 5:12 pm

      Hi there – I am running into the same issue, were you able to figure it out on your end?

      Reply
    • Jess

      May 18, 2022 at 5:08 pm

      I’m having the same issue too!

      Reply
  4. Ashlee Martin

    February 2, 2022 at 3:34 am

    I love this sooooo much!! I used your SVG file to make one similar for my whiteboard. Would you please share what font you used and where you got it? I’d love to add other headings for my calendar.

    Reply
    • Hannah

      February 13, 2022 at 11:23 am

      Thanks Ashlee. The font that I used was Gistesy.

      Reply
  5. Shalimar

    August 9, 2022 at 7:39 am

    Now that it has been used. Would you recommend to do it in mirror image and place the vinyl in the back instead of the front? To make it easier to clean/erase?

    Reply
    • Hannah

      September 25, 2022 at 10:27 am

      Absolutely. I haven’t had any issues with it peeling but I’m definitely very careful when I clean it.

      Reply
  6. Shawna

    November 10, 2022 at 2:22 am

    Did anyone ever figure out how to get this to work with Cricut?? I had the same issue as people mentioned above and I have no idea how to fix it. 🙁

    Reply

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