Spring Activities
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Exploring and Learning: It is a time of cleansing and of purification. Spring cleaning now prepares our minds and bodies for a resurgence. Candlemas is midway between winter and Spring.  feast of light.  When we make Bridget's cross to hang above the door and rededicate ourselves to the Divine light within. Dance around the maypole for Beltane.  Or hang bells round the garden to attract the fairy folk.  Or Morris bells round your ankles, to dance to the return of the sun and life in her joy. planting seeds.  forming life. grow a garden. A garden to eat or for wild life, butterflies, birds or deer learning what each likes... or  for beauty.  Which plants are healing plants? watching babies be birthed, birds building nests  watching life stirring after a long winters rest.  Be still to watch so we don't disturb. Learn about spinning (sheep ~ yarn ~ spinning). Good book for this... Charlie Needs a Cloak  by Tomie DePaulo.

Crafts: make a personal herb book. paint eggs for Eostra. The German Goddess of spring and fertility. take photos of spring and make a collage picture put budding spring branches, which have been pruned in buckets of water.  making a pretty attraction. making daisy chains rock gardens sand boxes Maypole candles spring craft ideas