May Day!

Today we learned about May Day. We read about how it has been celebrated throughout Europe in the book All Year Round. We made a miniature May pole, sang May Day songs, and talked about our upcoming trip this Sunday to the Sacramento Waldorf School May Day celebration!

Making a Miniature May Pole
Daddy made a small stick with a hole and finished it with beeswax. Mommy dyed some silk ribbons with natural ingredients to make 6 colors (pink, raspberry, blue, green, peach, lavender). Ricky found some Do-kee-doo and formed a stand for the stick. Joey and Wilson put the ribbons through the stick, layed a play silk around the base, and placed a fresh flower at the top.

May Day Songs/Verses
It's May Time
It's May-time! It's May-time!
That's the happy play-time!
We'll dance around the blooming trees,
So fragrant and so fair.
The sweet white petals falling,
The glad bird-voices calling;
It's May-time and a happy time
For children everywhere.

May Day
We're quaint little milk-maids, dancing in the hay,
Each dainty and sweet as a Queen o' the May;
With vine and with bough we now show you how
In honor of May Day we garland our cow.
A rosette of ribbons, as pink as the morn,
We've tied to the tip of each crooked white horn,
With courtesy and bow we now show you how
In honor of May Day we dance round our cow.