Although I never saw them practice, they performed beautiful and intricate dances around the Maypole weaving the streamers into endless beautiful designs. Ask your church members if they remember Maypoles and see what they can tell you about them. Down at our park we had a steel pole with long steel chains with handles you could swing on. Soon we were trying to imitate what the children at the school had done. We never got the hang of it and a few years later our pole was removed as it became a danger to our safety.
Children are very lucky today because people are more aware of safety issues.
Children were hurt often on our playground. We had a very tall slide with a metal slide and wooden sides. In the summer we often got burns from the metal and splinters from the sides. Another thing I loved on the first of May was making floral bouquets out of tissue paper and lace doilies. We would make a paper cornucopia and put our flowers in them.