DIY Printable Islamic Calendar with Slider
I have a DIY printable Islamic Calendar to share with you today. It has a button slider to mark the date in Gregorian and Hijri, as well as a way to record your most important dates. I hope you enjoy building this with your children.

I had always been on the look out for a way to mark my Islamic and Gregorian dates on a calendar. Unfortunately, it is hard to find one that we truly like. So, this year we build ourselves a Hijra-Gregorian Calendar of our own.
The dates and months templates are available as a free download.
Please click here and I will send them to you.
About the Islamic Hijri Calendar
Muslim follow the Islamic Hijri Calendar that has 12 months but only 29-30 days depending on the moon sighting. This is because the Hijri Calendar is a Lunar calendar.
The Hijri Calendar marks the Hijrah (migration) of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) from Makkah to Madinah. This calendar is important to Muslims because it helps them keep track of Ramadan, Hajj, the two Eids and other important dates in Islam.
Also, some Islamic countries (like Saudi Arabia where we live) follows the Hijri Calendar officially.
Earlier, I wrote about fun ways to teach children the Hijri Calendar in this post here. This year we had a fun round up of people sharing their tips on how to teach Islamic calendar on Instagram.
DIY PRINTABLE ISLAMIC CALENDAR – Hijri Calendar craft
The calendar consists of two sheets – one with the dates and the other with the months. You have to layer one over the other and glue them together.
I laminated the sheets to make them sturdy but you can stick on a cardboard too, if you wish.
Next, I punched holes at the bottom and beginning of the dates and months (with a thick needle), threaded a string with a button over it and tied them at the back. The button moves up and down and can be used to mark the dates.
It is pretty straight forward. There are four buttons to be moved on the DIY printable Islamic Calendar.
- Mark the English date
- Mark the Gregorian months
- Mark the Hijri months
- Mark the Arabic date
The picture above doesn’t show the days. The printables have them though. I modified this so it now also includes sheets to mark the day and also, if you need to remember important dates, write them down on the sheet provided.
At the moment, our calendar is stuck in our kids’ bedroom. They have lots of fun changing the dates, each morning.
I hope you enjoy making your own DIY printable Hijri Calendar from our templates.