Mabon Activities

Mabon Activities for Family, groups and solitary

In the past Mabon activities were usually family or group orientated because harvesting was usually an event that required the entire family or community to get it completed. It was important to have the harvest done before the cold and rainy weather set in that could ruin the crops. Mabon was also the time in which the ladies of the community gather to quilt; the quilting bee is a product of this season when the ladies gathered in a group to work on one woman’s quilt.

Today ladies may still gather to work on a single quilt, you can organize a quilting bee it would be appropriate to do this for a friend who is expecting a baby, to do this to donate to an elder care center or to a homeless shelter.

The idea behind Mabon activities is to encourage a sense of family or community. Activities that include family are appropriate, this is the season for sharing the bounty of the harvest look for activities that you can do with family that will benefit your community. Visit your nursing homes, homeless shelters; share your time and your energy,

Finally you may embrace the season by enjoying some traditional Mabon activities that you can do alone or with your family. Long walks in the woods  to enjoy the fall foliage, collect colorful leaves and branches to use in decorating ideas for your home and altar.Find yourself a place to go apple picking then return home and make an apple pie from your freshly picked apples.  Collecting nuts, dried seed pods and dried herbs on your nature walk to be used for decorations and some nuts such as Chestnuts & Chinkapins, beechnuts, black walnuts, Hazelnuts (Filberts), and pecans are great for eating and using to cook tasty treats. More information on the nuts that you can find on your nature walk, and how to identify them here: A Fall Field Guide: Foraging for Nuts