Next Friday is May Day. If you haven't guess I love May Day! A child's watering can make the perfect container for flowers. I found the pink one at JoAnn's Fabrics and the purple one at the Dollar Store.

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=May Day Gift Tags

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Download the May Day poem gift tags, attach to your May flowers and you have a great little May Day treat for your friends.

We used tall tin cans (the ones pasta sauce comes in), a coat hanger for the handle, a piece of brown paper grocery bag cut with scalloped scissors and a piece of twine. The cans would be extra sweet with a scrap of pretty scrapbook paper, or fabric and pretty ribbon tied around the middle or you could  paint the can. We pierced holes for the handles by nailing a nail in each side of the can.

Make the handle long (ours was about 18 inches) so it will fit over a door knob when filled with flowers.

Interested in other eco friendly crafts? Check out how to make cloth napkins and how to make a zippered pouch from recycled juice bags.

You will find more ways to celebrate May Day here.

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We used children's straw purses from the dollar store as our baskets for our May Day flowers today

I hope your day was happy!

may-day-cone-template

Print out on card-stock or decorative paper(my paper was two sided so that is how I got the solid tag and printed cone), roll into a cone shape and then glue. I had pretty good luck with a glue stick (when tiny hands were present) but hot glue is more sturdy. Embellishing the cones with drawings, trims, glitter, stamps, cut-outs, is a great family project------------but nothing is more fun than the "ding and dash!"