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Cliparts :

• May Day clipart (about.com)
  
  
  
  
• May Day clipart (webclipart.miningco.com)
  
  
  
  

Facts :

• Bank Holiday Bikers in Hastings (1066.net)
  "May Day Bank Holiday is traditionally a time when thousands of bikers from all over the country converge on the small Sussex seaside town of Hastings..."

  

• May Day - May 1st (learnenglish.de)
  The History of May Day
  May Day Customs and Superstitions :
  The Maypole
  Morris Dancing
  Jack in the Green ( The Cylenchar - The Hidden One)
  Beating the Bounds
  Hobby Horses
  Other Superstitions - ex : "A widespread superstition held that washing the face in the May Day morning dew would beautify the skin."
  May Day Today
  Magdalen College Choir

  

• May Day in England (woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk)
  May Day Bank Holiday
  How was May Day Celebrated?
  May Day Celebrations today
  Maypole Dancing
  Morris Dancing
  Well Dressing...

• MAY DAY - What happened to the radical workers' holiday? (students.washington.edu)
  
  
  
  

• May Day around the world (mayweek.ab.ca)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• A Little Bit About May Day (cstone.net)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Some information on Mayday (maydaynewhaven.org)
  1. THE FIRST MAYDAY
  2. THE ORIGINS AND TRADITIONS OF MAYDAY

Symbols :

• Symbols and Meanings of May Day - Mystical World Wide Web (mayweek.ab.ca)
  
  
  
  

INTERACTIVE exercises :

• What kind of May Day protester are you? (guardian.co.uk)

• Beltane: a Scottish May Day - a puzzle (scottishradiance.com)

Games TO PRINT :

• Spring is here! - word search (abcteach.com)

Poems :

• Spring Poem to create (abcteach.com)

• MAY DAY REMEMBERED (kentlaw.edu) :
  "There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today!"
  August Spies, Haymarket Martyr

• A Few Poems (geocities.com/holidaysfun) :
  - Daffodils (William Wordsworth)
  - Where the Bees Suck (William Shakespeare)

• April Showers (alighthouse.com)
  
  

• The First of May - a Nursery Rhyme (bygosh.com)
  
  

Songs :

• Folk Songs About May Day (nwfolk.com)

Proverbs and Sayings :

• Irish Proverbs & Sayings (irishcultureandcustoms.com)
  "A wet and windy May fills the barn with corn and hay."

• April Showers Bring May Flowers - with activities (dltk-kids.com)