Classroom Calendar 2.0

I have used the same store-bought dry erase class calendar for the entire 6 six years of my teaching experience, and I was ready for something new! So I did what any good teacher does, and searched Pinterest for some ideas, and I found something I loved. So, I got a cheap frame from a yard sale, a piece of white poster board, paint swatches and scrapbook paper in various shades of lime and turquoise, and a dry erase marker. I cut the paper in 3"x 3.5" rectangles and laid them in a random pattern (haha, what an oxymoron!) Finally, I glued them down, carefully placing them about .25" apart from each other. Then I assembled the frame and wrote out the month, year, and days. This is the result: