Spring Flower Crown Making

Making flower crowns is a joyous way to celebrate the return of life to the world after a long cold winter. The practice has long been part of Western-European and British May Day celebrations, and in Scandinavia is most often pursued during Midsummer, when family and friends come together to commemorate the longest day of the year on the summer solstice. In this class you'll learn how to make the traditional Scandinavian-style flower crown, with a base of interwoven fresh green birch branches. With a variety of flowers in a myriad of colors to choose from, the exact style of the crown you make is up to you and your imagination! In addition to birch branches and flowers, wire cutters and pruning shears will be provided and shared among participants. If you have your own wire cutters or pruning shears and wish to bring them, feel free to do so.

Meet your instructor
Christine Beaulieu has been making flower crowns with great joy since her early childhood, when they were part of her school's annual May Day celebrations. Christine's Danish heritage brought her into the Nordic Northwest community shortly after she came to Portland for college, and one of her favorite ways of being involved in the Nordic community here has been growing the Flower Area at the Oregon Midsummer Festival, with a personal mission of making sure every guest who attends and wants to make a flower crown is able to do so.

You may also like the following events from Nordic Northwest:

• This Saturday, 10th May, 11:00 am, Family Birch Bark Baskets in Raleigh Hills
• Next Tuesday, 13th May, 05:30 pm, Skål Night with Ruby Vineyard in Raleigh Hills
• Next Friday, 16th May, 09:45 am, Fogelbo Tours in Raleigh Hills

Also check out other Festivals in Raleigh Hills, Workshops in Raleigh Hills.