Happy Toy Day 🎁 🎄 🧸

• Decorate your home - or room - with colorful ribbons of reds, whites, and pinks, bells on your door, and heart shaped cut-outs.
• Go for a walk in nature, collecting blooming flowers and branches and leaves along the way - remember to ask permission before taking - and see and feel the fertility of nature all around you. Can’t go outside? Try to purchase some fake flowers for later use and watch nature outside your window or watch nature videos and listen to nature sounds online.
• Leave an offering to the Fae (milk, honey, cakes, etc.)
• Gather supplies for the holiday. Some items you will need besides flowers include ribbons, ingredients for food and drink, sticks or pencils or a “pole” like item, candles or electric candles, etc. Create a list of everything you need so you can remember.
• Create a Beltane basket. These are baskets filled with real or fake flowers, herbs, and goodwill. You would give them to friends, family members, and/or a partner or partners, but you can make one for yourself and keep it as a decoration in your home. Other options include making one for your altar and/or making one (or multiples) for the Deity or Deities you worship.
• Speaking of altars, decorate yours for the coming holiday. Include any of the following: colorful ribbons, feathers, and flowers, green leaves, shed antlers, a maypole made just for your altar, a red, green, or pink candle, some sweet or floral incense, gemstones such as garnet or rose quartz. You can also include any symbols or colors from Deities you worship.

• Wash your face, either outside in the dew of the morning or indoors.
• Take a bath using fresh flower petals or a colorful bath bomb.
• Wear something flowy, that’s either embroidered or adorned with flowers, and go barefoot for the day (if you’re able to).
• Give your Beltane baskets to those you made it for: whether it be others, yourself, your altar, or Deities, now’s the time to hand them out.
• Create a Maypole. You can make a mini one using a stick from outdoors or a pencil, basically any pole-like items will do, and attach colorful ribbons to the top. With each ribbon you attach, feel free to make a wish.

• If you are able to, write wishes on ribbons and toss them around a tree’s branches outside.
• Create flower wreaths from the blooming flowers you collected, or use fake flowers you bought. You can also weave them into your hair.
• Cook, bake, eat, and celebrate. Some normal Beltane foods include a platter of fruit, wine or lemonade, breads, cakes, and cookies.
• If you haven’t already, or want to do so again, leave an offering for the Fae either outside or by a window.
• Create or start something, whether it be a garden, a story, artwork, etc. Now’s the time to begin to create and nurture something new.

• Light the bonfires. Beltane is known for its bonfires, specifically creating two large bonfires that both people and livestock walk between to become cleansed and blessed. If you can’t make two outdoor bonfires, use two candles or electric candles and walk between them.
• Put happy, energetic music on and leap and dance to your heart’s content. Include your mini Maypole, if it is sturdy enough, and hold it out as you spin and dance in circles with it, even tying one or more ribbons completely around the Maypole. If you can’t play music or dance at night then do this during the day or play softer, more nature-inspired music and dance swiftly into the night.
• Practice divination - Beltane and Samhain are the two holidays when the veil is the thinnest, so divination of any type will be quite strong during Beltane.
• Cast a spell or two. Spells strongest during Beltane include any spells that utilize wildflowers, fertility spells, and spells that attract new love.
• Meditate before the night is over. Think of your own growth, creation, and what you find pleasure in or what pleases you. Then, either watch the sunrise before falling asleep or sleep whenever you become tired ♡

• Make a maypole
• Tie colorful ribbons on trees with blessing written on them
• Build a ceremonial pyre
• Pick colorful flowers
• Take a swim in a natural body of water
• Go on a picnic
• Build flower bouquets 
• Leave out offerings for the fae

• Decorate your home with multicolored ribbons
• Burn sweet, floral or fruity incense
• Make flower crowns
• Adorn the doors and parts of the home with bells
• Make Beltane Baskets

• Make a spread of berries, cherries and pomegranates
• Make edible flower cookies
• Make a fruity sun tea
• Make a rainbow beltane cake

• Take a sunrise morning bath
• Bathe in fresh colorful flower petals
• Pick out a colorful rainbow bath bomb
• Surround yourself by multicolored candles

• Cover the space with colorful fresh flowers and ribbons
• Make a flaming centerpiece to represent the fire festival
• Incorporate gemstones like garnet, rose quartz or emerald
• Make a miniature maypole
• Decorate with colorful feathers and shed antlers