May Day Frolicks!
It's May - here are some fun festivities to try and a song to get you in the mood.
'Around the maypole, gather we,
Dancing and prancing merrily.
To the Lord and Lady in the Green,
In our best frocks and mayflowers must we be seen.
Join in the dance, to bring in May,
With its fertile soil and flowers so gay.
Rise and fall, dip and swirl,
All may dance, come boy, come girl.'
- Take a stick/wooden spoon/branch on a tree and decorate with strips of bright fabric, wool or ribbons, criss-crossing and overlapping colours. Leave some dangling long.
- Dance with long scarves in circles, clockwise then anti-clockwise. Make up patterns and dance moves so the scarves 'dance' with you.
- Decorate your favourite trees and shrubs with coloured threads or ribbons, to say 'thank you' for their beauty and bless their fertility.
- Make some floral head-dresses*, or use face paints/make-up to decorate your face/body with floral patterns [*use strips of card and attach cut-out flowers and leaves that you have painted, or use stickers/foam shapes to decorate your head-dress].
