Ushering in Spring with Fun May Day Activities to Enjoy this Weekend

May 1, 2022

May Day celebrations center around springtime festivities and the start of flowers, vegetables, fruits, and other plants beginning to grow and blossom. It’s a wonderful time to get outside and celebrate nature and it’s beautiful greenery!

If you’d like to celebrate May Day at home, here are some great ideas to try with your loved ones today:

Leave a May Basket on your neighbours and friends’ doorsteps. A time honored tradition on May Day is to leave a basket of fresh picked and hand-collected flowers and spring greenery as a gift for your friends and family. You can create your own little basket by rolling a cone of paper in pretty spring colors like pink, blue, green, or yellow, and tying a beautiful colored ribbon or strand around it like a basket handle. Then fill it with beautiful blossoms from your walk, your own garden, or even faux florals for allergy friendly options and leave it with a little note that says “May basket! Happy Spring!”

Go on a walk to a local nature trail or park, and collect a little basket of wildflowers and fresh floral branches and greenery (be sure to adhere to posted signs and do not trespass on protected botanical gardens.) You and your family can use colored glasses, wine bottles, or other glassware to do a little floral arranging and brighten up your home.

Grab some floral wire and floral tape and make a flower crown! Gathering soft, pliable flowering branches from your yard, gently twist the floral wire around and in between the flowers, softly forming a little circle. Fasten the two ends of the branch into the circlet and secure with floral tape. Add in extra blossoms with wire or floral tape, and decorate with flowing ribbons. If you prefer something that lasts year round, you can make a Faux Floral Crown with silk or silicone flowers.

Kids and teens will really enjoy some quality time together with friends and family as they create their very own May Pole and dance around one another to create a colourful, festive pole festooned with ribbons and flowers! This How to Make a Maypole tutorial from Darleen Meier is the perfect idea.