This is from my door to your door:
We celebrated May Day at school making May baskets to put on our neighbors’ doors. I taught my children the same. In early grades we always had a Maypole and would sing and dance around it. Great fun!
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The Bag Lady 
Over the pond the May Day celebration has its roots in pagan Anglo-Saxon customs and the pagan festival Beltane, which marked the beginning of summer. (Anglo-Saxon period 500-1066).
Villages and towns all over the U.K. mark the beginning of springtime fertility by traditional Maypole dancing and Morris dancing. The first Monday in May is a traditional Bank Holiday over here and this year falls on 7th.
I wonder if the date 1st May, the U.S. International Workers’ Day, was chosen for same reasons, to mark a new beginning?
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I’m not sure, I’ll have to investigate
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I have a small clip of my 3 year old granddaughter from last night attempting the Maypole dance. Intending to blog at some point this week
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https://www.wattpad.com/66136753-eight-sabbats-of-witchcraft-may-day Cheers Jamie
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Thanks for the info
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I once stole all the flowers out of a neighbors garden so I could make her a Mayday basket….she didn’t notice at first ….thank goodness she just laughed when she told my mother what I had done.
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Why doesn’t that surprise me?😂
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I loved making May baskets as a child and placing them on neighbors doorsteps.
We would use whatever was blooming at the time in our yard.
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I miss those old traditions.
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Me too!
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