what you need…

compost
flower pot
gardening trowel
daffodil bulb
water
watering can

what to do…

  1. fill the flower pot with compost
  2. using the gardening trowel make a shallow hole in the compost
  3. place the daffodil bulb in the shallow hole
  4. cover the daffodil bulb with compost
  5. pour some water over using a watering can

then into a little dream adventure…

~ask you children questions, what colour was the bulb? what colour will the daffodil be? what season is it?
~talk about the different seasons and what you would expect to see…
~go into the garden and search for other spring flowers, go for walks in the woods, what can they see? what colours can they see?
~name other spring flowers and identifying them
~make a little tick list for all the spring flowers you see on your walk
~collect some of the flowers and press them in a flower press
~or make a sweet little flower arrangement in vases along the kitchen table
~choose a spring flower to draw, encouraging still life drawing
~make a picture of a daffodil, naming the different parts of the flower…bulb, stem, leaf, petal, trumpet
~plant other spring bulbs – tulips or hyacinth
~read this beautiful poem by William Wordsworth :

Daffodils by William Wordsworth

I wander’d lonely as a cloud,
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine,
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretch’d in never ending line,
Along the margin of the bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee.
A poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company!
I gazed – and gazed – but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought.

For oft, when on my couch I lie,
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.