In our woodland Wednesday session last week the fairies sent a letter about a traditional celebration that they have at this time each year called Beltane. We might know this as May Day. They told us about some of the things that they do to celebrate and we recreated them for our own celebration! We lit a fire and toasted soda bread on it drizzled with honey (in the hope that we will have a sweet Summer, the fairies left us a loaf of soda bread and some honey), we made green man masks, we also made crowns. Some of us checked the wild flowers we had planted and we were pleased to see that they have started to grow well! We took more willow cuttings and put them in a bucket to see if they will grow roots.
The fairies had also left us some natural paintbrushes made from sticks and different woodland items and we tried to make our own natural paints using the charcoals from a previous fire, grass, dandelions and mud. We may have mixed too much water with the paint though!