Fill in the Blanks May Day TraditionsOnline version An activity to learn about the festival od May Day by María José Machado Marquínez 1 folk gather Roman Morris de streets pagan summer bells towns dance queen flowers maypole handkerchiefs ribbons On May , 1st , there is a festival to celebrate the beginning of . This festival started before the empire , and it is a festival . People together in villages or and they sing and dance to music . There is a special dance called dancing , for which people wear clothes with , and also carry sticks or . People around the holding . They use lots of to decorate houses and the . In the past , they chose the May and girls washed their faces with the morning