April Christmas and Holiday Planner
Purchase gifts and cards for May
Start planning June parties
Mother's Day
Review budget.
Finish home-made gifts
Purchase grocery items from the non-perishable list each week
Christmas
Ongoing Christmas newsletter: Make notes of events that occurred in March.
Photo calendar: Plan April pictures you need to take for photo calendar. Develop or up load
March photos.
Buy 1/10 of budgeted Christmas gifts or place money in savings.
Update Gift Chest list with new items you have purchased.
Home-made gifts: Refer to calendar for Christmas projects you should be working on now.
Christmas budget: Up-date budget.
Plan holiday menus-Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and Day.
- Organize recipes and menus together.
- Make a shopping list
- Note non-perishable items
Plan Holiday parties
How many parties are you going to have and when?
- Make a budget.
- Plan menus or refreshments.
- Organize recipes
- Make a shopping list
- Note non-perishable items
Gift list
Check for missing names on your gift list e.g. teachers, cub scout leaders, tips to hair dresser,
etc.
Father's Day
Start plans for Father's Day
-If camping out make a list of all equipment you will need to take.
Plan menus.
- Organize recipes
- Make a shopping list
- Note non-perishable items
Plan gifts for the day. Mark on shopping list with gift wrap and cards.
- Are you planning on making some of the gifts? Make a project page in your notebook.
- Mark needed items on project shopping list
Graduations
Address and mail invitations three weeks before.
Refer to your party plan. Complete items needed done for each week.
Update your budget for the event.
School
Begin wardrobe planning your next year's clothing. Spread purchases out over the next several
months.
If you are making the clothing create a project page .
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