I never really knew what May Day was all about, so I looked it up...

http://www.mayweek.ab.ca/ Unfortunately, the links there to "The Origins and Traditions of May Day" and "May Day: From Pagan Origins to the Labor Movement" don't work (right now, at least).

Another site explains the pagan origins: http://www.planet.net.au/innovations/may96/mayday.html

A bit more about origins (with the "earliest know picture of a May-pole" – be sure to click on the link beneath the picture to see more): http://salmonriver.com/words/nancy/maia.html

A bit about American activism on May Days past: http://students.washington.edu/ruckus/vol-2/issue-6/mayday.html

Interesting little editorial about Labor Day vs. May Day: http://www.cs.uni.edu/~campbell/gened/labour.html

Morris Dancing & May Day Games, from Walford's Antiquarian, 1886: http://chrisbrady.itgo.com/morris/morris.htm

Celebrating May Day (some activities for teachers and kids, including simple songs): http://www.umkc.edu/imc/mayday.htm This site says that children in France tie flowers to cows' tails for May Day. True?