The document describes traditions associated with the May Day festival celebrated on May 1st or the first Monday of May. Key traditions include decorating streets and villages with flowers, holding traditional dances like the Maypole dance where dancers wrap ribbons around a pole to form patterns, crowning a May Queen by placing a flower crown on her head, participating in traditional music and parades, and competing in cheese rolling races down steep hills to catch a rolling cheese for a prize. The festival celebrates the coming of spring and blossoming of flowers.

1. MAY DAY
FESTIVAL
AND
TRADITIONS

2. Traditionally,
on the first of May
These days,
on the first Monday
of May (bank holiday)

3. To celebrate the end
of colder weather and… …the blossom of trees and flowers.

4. Flower decorations in the streets of towns and villages.

5. Traditional dances like the Maypole.
flowers
ribbons
pole
colourful
pattern

6. Traditional dances like the
Morris dance.
1) Dancers with handkerchiefs
2) Dancers with sticks

7. The election of the May Queen
flowers
ribbons
pole
They crown her with…
…a crown
of flowers

8. Traditional music.
flowers
Parades in the streets of the villages.
Padstow, England (UK)

9. THE CHEESE ROLLING COMPETITION
flowers
ribbonspole
The winner
gets free cheese
for twenty years.
Everyone goes to
the top of a very
steep hill.
A big round cheese is
rolled down the hill…
…and everyone tries to chase it.

10. I wish you a
Happy
May Day!!!