anyone seeing you. ...kinda like the Easter Bunny, but with flowers.

THAT sounds like so much fun - How I wish I had been living in ALL your neighbourhoods! NEVER had things like that happen here - sorry to say it would have been stolen! :-(

*Flowers for EVERYONE! HAPPY 1ST OF MAY!

Hugs
~S~

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by mel08 30 Apr 2009

This was in the 50's.

:-)

by daisy530 30 Apr 2009

Well--late, late, late 50s.

by daisy530 30 Apr 2009

Well--late, late, late 50s.

I remember doing the May Pole on May Day, where kids each have a ribbon hanging from a tall pole and dance around in 2 different directions so the ribbon gets woven on the pole. It looked real pretty!

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by mel08 30 Apr 2009

We did that too. I remember in the 2nd grade it was a really big deal...even had a school celebration with a big pole in the play yard that had a ribbon for each child and we "wove it" by doing the over under dance...it was so fun.

Thanks for the memories! As a child I used to make homemade baskets and flowers out of various colors of tissue paper and then go and hang them on the neighbor's doors. Usually there weren't any real flowers in bloom yet to pick from my Mom's flower garden. Does anyone still do this?

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by daisy530 30 Apr 2009

Paper flowers or real flowers--all the same!

by mel08 30 Apr 2009

Remember when Kleenex first came out and we figured out how to make kleenex flowers? and then they made pastel tissues..WOW that was cool !

by daisy530 30 Apr 2009

We made flowers out of colored kleenex on our homecoming float in high school. So cool.

Oh my what fun - ok - let's all do that - how much fun is this????? *4U


So many flowers - I will need some help, too!

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Oh Daisy you and I must have been cloned....I am 1 of 8 and we made the May Day baskets for ALL our neighbors...but OUR "flowers" were dandelions!!!

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by daisy530 29 Apr 2009

I'm sure ours had dandelions too, but they were still beautiful. (so was the clover growing in the front lawn when the lawns needed mowing. Don't you think the neighbors knew you were hanging baskets on their doors?

by mel08 30 Apr 2009

Dandelions were the best, with a few purple violets and a couple of lily of the valley..that was just about what we did.

That's exactly what we did! We made construction paper baskets at school by weaving strips of paper in and out of slits cut in the main basket piece of paper. Our baskets had lupins and California Poppies in them. Because we had 8 kids in our family, no neighbor was left out. Thankyou so much for bringing back such a fond memory!

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by mel08 30 Apr 2009

Those are great baskets. I remember learning how to make them as a kid for Valentines Day in pinks and then we changed color for each additional celebration...that was so fun!