Scope and Sequence Planner | DIY Bible Curriculum | Year at a Glance

Plan your whole year around real holidays and school breaks, in minutes instead of hours.

If you’ve ever planned a Bible curriculum, you know the hardest part isn’t always the lessons. It’s the calendar.

You need to know exactly where Easter and Christmas fall. You need to know when the school district’s fall break starts, when spring break lands, and when summer attendance usually drops. You have to count the weeks, move things around, count again, and then do it all over when one date changes. I’ve spent more than 10 hours on that process in a single planning season, and I never found a tool that made it simple.

So I built one.

The DIY Bible Curriculum Calendar Planner helps you build the scope and sequence calendar for your church, based on your own service days, your country’s holidays, and your local school schedule. You answer a few simple questions, and it builds a printable year-at-a-glance for you.

With this planner you can:

• See your whole year at a glance, with your service days, holidays, school breaks and church events all on one page
• Calculate exactly how many weeks you have, with Easter and Christmas weeks already accounted for
• Plan a single 10-week unit to try it out, or map a full year of units
• Erase, reschedule and rearrange weeks as dates change, with the week counts updating as you go
• Print a clean calendar to share with your team or hang on the wall

Perfect for:

• Children’s and youth pastors building their first DIY curriculum
• Volunteer leaders who want to test a 10-week unit before committing to a year
• Churches of any size, in any country, with any service schedule

How it works:

1. Get the planner prompt and paste it into Claude (a free Claude account works).
2. Answer a few questions about your church, your service days and your school calendar.
3. Get your printable year-at-a-glance, then plan your units on top of it.

Stop losing hours to calendar math. Start planning the weeks that matter.