Today was Virpomispäivä or Palm Sunday to the rest of the world. Here in Finland children decorate sticks with brightly coloured feathers and tissue paper and dress up like witches. They go door to door saying a poem offering spring blessings and then exchange the sticks with the home owner for candy. Not a bad trade, eh?
My own little witches spent yesterday decorating sticks and today they braved snow flurries and gusty winds to hand out their sticks and gather their reward.
Jo Jackson Photography 
Oh, I love this tradition! Can’t wait to do it with my daughter in the future. Those colours look just gorgeous against the snowy backdrop 🙂
It’s so much fun decorating the sticks, not to mention the adventure collecting them from the forest in the first place! 😉 You’ll love it!