Daffodil(AKA: Lent Lily) Stories, Poems and Activities by Grade, Some Lesson Plans

Free printable stories, poems, (some with comprehension questions), games, and activities from vintage readers in public domain at Google Books. To print stories, follow link, right click on image of page and print image, not page.

Flower Children picture book.

Illustrated kindergarten Poem: Spring's Call to the Garden

Kindergarten verse, learning the months: The Garden Year

Second grade: A Daffodil Story

Second grade Christian reader: Spring with spelling

Third grade English: Poem, with questions and written exercise

The Daffodils by William Wordsworth(Poem only) Elementary and up.

Early Elementary game: Buttercups and Daffodils,and here as well in Ring Games and Frolics: The Game of Flowers. Similar to London Bridge.

Teacher curricular and activity suggestions for Wordsworth's poem, The Daffodils.

Early elementary: Teacher's manual for spring bulbs(plant section)

Lesson plan: Flowers for children over six.

Kindergarten: Children's embroidery pattern.

Kindergarten: Nature's Awakening. Bible study and lessons-John 12:24 and Cor. 15:55-57 with daffodil bulb.

Art, fourth grade: Drawing a daffodil

Prang's elementary teacher's manual for spring flowers. Third grade.

Fourth grade Catholic reader: Daffodils with questions and spelling.

Fifth grade reader: spring poem with comprehension questions.

Middle School: March, a poem

Seventh grade reader: The Daffodils by Wordsworth with questions.

Eighth grade reader: Persephone

High school: Of Gardens, by Francis Bacon(flowers, not specifically daffodils) no questions, just vocabulary.

Middle school - high school: Comstock's cultivated plant study, The Daffodils and Their Relatives.(Charlotte Mason)

Middle school - high school: Daffodils in March by R. Macaulay Stevenson and an Irish Poem, one by Robert Herrick, and here The First Daffodil, The Lent Lily or Lent Pitcher of Devonshire.(poetry only)

Middle school: Flower names

Middle school: Botany for Children: The Daffodil

Simple music sheets: Call of the March Wind

Free Printable Short Stories, Audio Read-Along Option with Mini-Worksheets

3/3/08 Update: Sites were down over the weekend, but they are up again. Also I found another site which offers Lit2go audio files - Learn Out Loud.com, but no printouts.

Lit2Go has reformatted short vintage stories from public domain texts in a printable PDF along with a human read optional audiobook. There are short lessons as well. I make my own story sheets by copying and pasting vintage texts or portions of texts(see my library ) into Google Documents, but the audio reading is a great bonus! The reader is very clear and pleasant.

This is a great literature supplement source for preschool - early elementary(K- grade 3). The data base is searchable by grade, title, key words and author. There are a few stories/poems for other grades as well, all the way through grade 12.

I'm working on making my own book(binder) with these free print outs; I'll burn the audio onto a CD to make it a read-along. I'm putting together a read-along preschool- K book with nursery rhymes for my daughter. A very neat resource.


This site also offers free clipart for school children. Basically they have collected and reformatted vintage online public domain book images(black and white) and categorized them. I recognized quite a few of these. It's a handy resource for everything related to learning. I love their categories. If you want to retrieve the original public domain images(not copyrighted), go to Google Books and try searching for it. Lit2Go indicated that the images are copyrighted because they cleaned them up a bit, therefore making them original work. I think they look the same(!), but the site does offer the convenience of not having to search for images yourself.

Up to fifty images are free without a license.

Reusing Vintage Calendars

Here's a handy chart for determining which calendar years repeat each other. For 2008, the following calendar years are the same: 1924, 1952, and 1980. A nice way to recycle and enjoy a vintage calendar. If I find any vintage calendars matching 2008 that are free and in public domain, I'll post them.Here is another site, the perpetual calendar which indicates that the years: 1828, 1856 and 1884 are also the same as 2008.

1884: Kate Greenaway Calendar

1950 Calendar










There are few matching years for sale on ebay, Ruby Lane and Wagglepop.

Also search for calendar towels...Vera made some pretty ones in the 1980's. They can be easily hung on a wooden dowel. Here is a 1980 linen one at Ruby Lane of a Kitchen Prayer. I also saw one there with owls.