Presidents Day Printable Story Starters

Did you know that because Presidents Day is always on the third Monday in February, it never actually falls on George Washington’s birthday which is February 22? The date can only fall on February 15th through 21st! Here’s a fun set of Presidents Day printable story starters to get your kids thinking about what it would be like to meet President Washington or President Lincoln – or even what it would be like to be a president themselves one day!

Related Pages: Civil War Worksheets, Election Worksheets, more patriotic activities can be found here.

We often tell our kids that anyone in the US can grow up to become the president.  There are a few rules, however.

• The person must be a natural-born citizen of the US
• He or she must have lived as a permanent resident in the US for at least 14 years
• The person must be a minimum of 35 years old (John F. Kennedy was our youngest so far at 43 years, 236 days old)
• The candidate must not have participated in a rebellion against the US and cannot have been impeached by the Senate

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From start to finish, here are the folks we’re celebrating each year on Presidents Day.

1. George Washington 1789-1797
2. John Adams 1797-1801
3. Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809
4. James Madison 1809-1817
5. James Monroe 1817-1825
6. John Quincy Adams 1825-1829
7. Andrew Jackson 1829-1837
8. Martin Van Buren 1837-1841
9. William Henry Harrison 1841-1841 (Died in Office)
10. John Tyler 1841-1845
11. James K. Polk 1845-1849
12. Zachary Taylor 1849-1850
13. Millard Fillmore 1850-1853
14. Franklin Pierce 1853-1857
15. James Buchanan 1857-1861
16. Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865
17. Andrew Johnson 1865-1869
18. Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877
19. Rutherford B. Hayes 1877-1881
20. James A. Garfield 1881-(Died in Office)
21. Chester A. Arthur 1881-1885
22. Grover Cleveland 1885-1889
23. Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893
24. Grover Cleveland 1893-1897
25. William McKinley 1897-1901
26. Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
27. William Howard Taft 1909-1913
28. Woodrow Wilson 1913-1921
29. Warren G. Harding 1921-1923
30. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929
31. Herbert Hoover 1929-1933
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945
33. Harry S. Truman 1945-1953
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower 1953-1961
35. John F. Kennedy 1961-1963
36. Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969
37. Richard M. Nixon 1969-1974
38. Gerald R. Ford 1974-1977
39. Jimmy Carter 1977-1981
40. Ronald Reagan 1981-1989
41. George Bush 1989-1993
42. Bill Clinton 1993-2001
43. George W. Bush 2001-2009
44. Barack Obama 2009-2016
45. Donald Trump 2017-2021
46. Joe Biden 2021

Also check out these fun Washington and Lincoln Presidents Day Masks!