Diy may pole

May pole! Love it.

Every year May Day comes and goes without celebration. Back in the day and I do mean the day, I not only ran door to door passing out May Baskets, I actually "danced" around the May Pole. It was a huge celebration at my school, so huge, we had a May Day Program. We practiced for days, weaving in and out, getting tangled, untangled, practiced and practiced. One of the years, we all dressed up from different countries, I was dressed from Sweden, with the cutest little dress and wooden shoes. I…

How To Make a Maypole May Day is just around the corner (May 1st), and is a traditional Spring holiday in many European countries in celebration of Spring through dance. Learn how to make a Maypole for your May Day festivities. Usually we go around on May Day and hang a bouquet of flowers on...Read the Post

I am excited to share even more Fairy Gardens from the Fairy Garden Contest. Here is just a small sampling of them… please click on each link to see each Fairy Garden in more detail. Here is such a cute Fairy Garden with amazing detail, including fairy houses, ponds and a MAY POLE! We loved […]

The approach of May Day always transports me back to grade school where the holiday was celebrated with much fanfare and festivity. Attending an all girls school, we could revel in this day featuring flowers, romance, ribbons and new outfits with unabashed exuberance. The May Queen and her court were chosen from among the students and ceremoniously crowned as groups of girls danced around a May pole weaving intricate patterns from colorful garland. Of course that was more than a few years…

woven may pole

Once the maypole is set up, the children can dance to a waltz, a polka, a jig, or any tune you choose. Our dancers kept track of their braiding by chanting, "Go over it, then under it, and over it and under it," to keep from getting tangled in their ribbons.

Maypole DIY | Oh Happy Day! (Ribbon from @Paper Mart)

May Day came and went so quickly for us and by the time I got the new ribbons for our Maypole it was pouring rain, even though we had a 5 meter high pole that Saxon had cut down for us. So we were unable to celebrate with the usual singing and dancing around the Maypole. So for Moran's birthday she wanted to have a Maypole and we made this one from scratch. Here is how we made it! Materials: * A pole of your choice, we cut down a tree from our block, but in the past we have used a very long…