In a Montessori birthday celebration the candle represents the sun. The guide or parent begins telling the story of the child’s birth. After they share about the first year of life, the child takes their first walk around the sun. The guide shares the milestones and pictures for each year and for each year the child does a walk around the sun. Each guide will have a slightly different approach but the heart is the same. This is a great way to begin to understand the abstract ideas of the passing