April Planner Pages 2026

A few weeks ago I happened to win a journal, kids, and a raffle at my mom's group, and I decided to use that journal kit to make my April pages.

It's really a random bunch of supplies. There's washi tape, stickers, memo pads, a little journal with grid pages, and just lots of different ephemera. The best way that I can describe the theme of this kit is "orange sunset". There are lots of clouds, lots of orange tones, and honestly, some actual oranges too.

But by far my favorite parts of this kit are the quotes scattered throughout on these supplies.

I found some real gems, some in English, some in broken English, and some in Japanese, and using Google Translate to translate those Japanese quotes has resulted in some marvelously hilarious translations. Here are a few of my favorites.

• It hurt to be in the eternal gathering. That's very a sweet illusion of wrapped rice cakes.
• Soon the whole town will be dyed bright red. (That one just sounds ominous.)
• With the falling away in spring, dressed in a green children's summer in the walk of crow hop. (This one was an English) 
• Anyone who has eaten a wooden board while crying can survive.
• You are like the word Melancholy.

For all of my favorite quotes, I've made a short video of highlights below.

​After making my way through the translations and deciding to still use them, I had no idea where to actually start with this kit. I don't usually use a bunch of random things to stick into my notebook. So to simplify, I decided to just start with the calendar pages because one of the supplies included in the kit are stickers for each day of the month, and I decided that that was an easy way to start.
To be honest, it's probably going to be a little bit difficult to write all my appointments in and to read them on the cloud background. It might look really busy and maybe terrible, but that's okay. We're just going to try it and see. It's only for a month.

​I also added in the title and a little bit of decoration on the edges. I ended up cutting out individual letters to spell out April in kind of a ransom note style, along with some gingham from one of the other pages included in the kit.

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​The next spread was my habit tracking setup. I created every-other-line highlights,both vertical and horizontal, making a grid for ease of readability and use. I have the days of the month across the top and the habits will be listed down the left side. To track, I make a circle in the intersection of habit and day. It's either a hollow circle or a filled in circle, depending on how much of the habit I accomplish.  The hollow circle represents my low (micro) habit and a filled in circle means that I've accomplished my high (optimal) habit.

And since this is a spread that I use every single day, I wanted to make sure that I really liked the decoration on this page, and I picked some of my favorite pieces from the kit.

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Next up is my finances spread on the left and my journaling space on the right. But what I did not initially realize is that I actually turned to the wrong page to put these in. This is the first spread you turn to after March, so ideally this would be my cover page, and not my finances page. Oh well!

I used some shopping list memo pad pages and glued them together to make two columns that have enough space for all the categories that I track, and then just added a few circle stickers at the top for some extra visual interest.

And then for the journaling side, mostly I just need a blank space, but I wanted a little bit of decoration. So, I found a few images and stuck them down the right side of the page. I love that they're all moody sun and shadow pictures. And then at the bottom, I simply wrote in the word "journal".

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​Now onto what was supposed to be the first spread in the journal.

On the left is the actual cover page. I glued in a few of my favorite pictures, which included this gorgeous sunset and a fake music track image. Added in some stickers above and below, and then covered up the original song title so that it looks like "April" is the title of the song playing.

For the aims page (on the right), I usually write out different things that I want to do throughout the month, broken out into different sections like goals, tasks, things to clean, things to buy, etc. and usually I create a few boxes for them. This time I decided to just use the boxes of the these faux paint samples, label them, and then add decoration behind it.
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Next up is the monthly review on the left. It's also a pretty simple spread. It has a title in the middle, and then I used stickers all around, and a few highlights from my Tombows. At the end of the month, I'll add in the titles of the stats I want to track on the stickers, and then fill in the stats below them. These reviews make it easy to compare some of my tracking on a month to month basis.
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​​This page to the right of my monthly review is actually a weekly spread, but only half a week since April starts midweek. Sometimes I include a split week in the previous month or the upcoming month, but this time I decided to actually split it between the two months. So this is just the second  half of week 13. I have included my rolling tasks list menu section, a tracking section, and the schedule at the top, but no room for notes in this one.
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​My full weekly spread looks more like this, with a whole week of a schedule along the top and a half page of blank (or decorated) space in the bottom right to jot down any notes or reminders I may need throughout the week.

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​For my final spread of the month, which is actually my final spread of the entire journal. (What?!) I wanted to just have a fun collage, using some of the extra pieces, and some of the fun quotes that I translated.

This was intended to be just a very quick, fun throw together, but ended up being my favorite page of all the spreads.

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There was a lot of back and forth in this designing this month, because I really didn't have a plan going in. I ended up just making it up as I went along. I kept going from spread to spread, adding a little bit there, a little bit here, progressing in a very non linear fashion.  If you'd like to watch me put together these spreads, then check out this youtube video below.