May_Day.bmp (820k file)
Back in the Olden Days, before the communists took it over, we kids used to enjoy May Day. There was May Pole dances, which were a lot of fun, skipping around the pole getting our ribbons tangled up something fine! lol And making May Baskets. You could make your basket out of almost anything. We kids usually wove them from paper. We fill them with grubby handsful of wild flowers. Then we’d take them to the house of some friend, or usually an elderly lady that we liked, hang the basket on the door knob, knock or ring and then run hide. The ladies always were properly surprised and loudly grateful to whatever good fairy had brought the gift. We loved it and they loved it. Too bad such a nice ‘holiday’ got forgotten while we still remember ones like Halloween, where the idea is to get rather than to give. But I thought I’d share my favorite May Day paper flower project. We made them in school every year for May Day and Mother’s Day. Put them in a little basket and surprise and elderly neighbor next Saturday.