The first Lei Day was held on May 1, 1928, and everyone in Honolulu was encouraged to wear lei. Festivities were held downtown with hula, music, lei making demonstrations and exhibits and lei making contests.
Many celebrations are held at local schools. Elementary schools hold celebrations crowning Lei Day kings, queens and princesses.
These are some photos from our May Day festival. The school did the traditional crowning ceremony because it was its 50th year celebration. The girls spent weeks practicing for the performance. It was really interesting to see a traditional Hawaiian event and my girls learned songs and hula dances for the event. Thorin knew the story her hula dance was explaining and it made sense.
These are some photos from our May Day festival. The school did the traditional crowning ceremony because it was its 50th year celebration. The girls spent weeks practicing for the performance. It was really interesting to see a traditional Hawaiian event and my girls learned songs and hula dances for the event. Thorin knew the story her hula dance was explaining and it made sense.
The teachers got out and did a hula dance and it was really awesome to watch. The guys worked really hard to get a masculine hula dance perfected. I LOVE HAWAII!
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