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• Picnic from myranda from New York
  This is an idea that I found people of all ages like. On May Day I wanted to do something special with my friends so I decided to take them all on a picnic. I made everyone's favorite finger foods and some drinks and packed them in the basket along with a blanket to sit on and some water in a thermos and some paper towels and tin foil. When we finished eating and playing a game of Frisbee I took them all out to pick some wild flowers. They all picked their own bouquet of flowers and tied them with a ribbon. I put them in wet paper towels and then in tin foil so it wouldn't leak. Then I pulled out a list of all the flowers and wrote down what they meant and also the color of the ribbon's meaning. When we were satisfied with what we made we took the bouquets home and left them on people's door knobs or in that general vicinity. It's like ding, dong, ditch only with a nicer intent. The tradition was that if you get caught by the person when you leave the flowers that you get a kiss. We decided to bypass that. If you wanted, you could make flower garlands of the flowers you picked instead and give those away to people or wear it yourself.