Celebrating March Festivals – Arrival of First Day of Spring

In India, spring is celebrated as the arrival of “Vasant or Basant”. A range of festivals commemorating spring and the color of spring “vibrant and bright yellow” is used for Vasantotsava (festival of spring) as per the ancient Hindu epic “Veda”.

The Sufi and Muslim traditions decorate the dargahs (tombs) of Sufi saints and the most colorful spring festivals are celebrated across the world with zest and enthusiasm.

How to celebrate spring?

Celebrate the first day of spring, surround yourself in spring colors and everything spring. Vibrant spring can suggest many craft ideas at home and green landscaping or spring gardening in your home garden if you are fond of indoors activities.

And if you are an adventurous type, you will love the amazing outdoor activities which though can be pretty exhaustive but very exciting. With traveling, surfing, swimming, camping, biking and cruising the amazing rivers, canopy and Hawaii trails, you can enjoy the most of the spring season. Or just laze around the lagoons without doing anything. Remember to take your digital camera to capture stunning photographs of spring. Nature is at its best with the blooming of spring flowers all around the world that uplift the spirit of spring. It indeed is a favourite and amazing season of all.

If you love arranging flowers, easiest crafts for spring can be collecting the spring flowers, making fresh flower centerpieces every day if you are blessed with spring garden or drying them to making a collage of bookmarks.

If you are an artist, you will love sketching your brilliant vibrant garden and flowers of spring on a canvas. Color it in brilliant rainbow colors, and use the framed paintings to hang on your walls. Even if you think that they are not quite masterpiece, you will definitely enjoy drawing and coloring the spring on drawing paper.

If you are good in photography, the first day of the spring holds many challenges. Chalk out a schedule to identify the spring birds in your garden, picture the life cycle of birds and hang the brilliant photographs in your drawing room.

Collect your spring photographs and make an album this year. You can improvise the album year after year. You will certainly love to browse through these photographs as the days go by. In fact, do these crafts for all the four seasons and it will become a rare memorabilia.

As the weather improves and the sun shines, it is time to tend your spring garden into full spring blooms. Divide your garden in four season blooms. Turn your garden into vibrant colors of spring, one part of your garden in green trees and shrubs while other in oranges and yellow blooms. The third part in red and pink and your garden will become a starting point of any conversation.

Research more and make your garden a bird’s habitat, attract butterflies in your garden and you will see that spring has taken a totally different meaning with your backyard gardening hobby. Try to make it diverse by planting berries, herbs and vegetables, try out making a greenhouse for this unique herbal kitchen garden and use these produce from your spring garden in exploring new culinary cuisines. You will love these fresh herbs and veggies from your kitchen garden that no mall can match and the aromas that no gourmet meals from a restaurant can fulfill.

If you are born adventurous or you want to try adventures, spring is perhaps the most promising time to enjoy outdoors. Even if you are not able to go for a distant vacation, plan a visit to nearby site seeing places, local suburbs and fields are equally great for a spring outdoor vacation. Spring can be equally spectacular when compared to the Fall season.

Take a field trip to the farms, villages or a nearby winery to enjoy the colors of spring. Camp in your backyard and make spring a whole welcoming experience. Dine outdoors at night, eat barbecued meals and enjoy the wilderness in your backyard by turning a segment of your backyard in a tropical greenhouse. Use your imagination in designing a small pond with waterfall feature in your garden and you will have the experience of a life time.