Playground Maypole
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If you can plan in advance - ask if any of your parents/friends can embed an old broom handle into a bucket of cement!
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Once set - paint the handle.
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Use a tennis ball - cut out a hole big enough to it to slide onto the top of the handle. Before securing - make slahes around the edge of the hole and thread long lengths of ribbon into them (the 'old' streamers from a doorway blind would be perfect!)
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Knot the ends of the ribbon so that they are secure inside the ball.
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Put the ball back onto the handle and hammer 2 nails down through the top - this should stop the ball spinning as the children twist the ribbons around!
Craft Maypole
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Use circular card tubes (tissue paper tubes - or hand made ones) for the pole.
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Decorate with paints, crayons, pens.
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Stand the pole upright.
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Let the children cut lengths of ribbon or thread and secure to the top edge of the pole .
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These can now be used as decorative wands in dance - or tools for weaving patterns around the pole with the ribbon/thread!