Ayyappa vrathams / yaathirais are full of interesting rituals (with reasons of course) and very elaborate and sequential in nature.
This article gives a glimpse of those to get you familiarized with the happenings as well as to prepare the first-timers and kids in advance.
For brevity, we have not included the reasons for the items, but please feel free to get in touch with any Guruswamy to know/discuss about them.
Please remember, a pure and true mind and body with a full ‘saranam’ to ‘Swami’ is a must and paramount that supplements/supersedes all these rituals.