This free printable May Day Basket with matching flowers is quick and easy to put together.  In no time at all you will have a fun May Day Basket— with flowers included to share with friends!

Supplies For Making a Paper May Day Basket

• two-sided heavy (card-stock weight) scrapbooking paper cut to 8 1/2″ X 11″
• wrapped candy for the flower centers
• double sided tape or a glue stick
• scissors
• long craft sticks found at a craft and hobby store
• a small piece of ribbon or string for attaching the tag

How to assemble the May Day Basket

Download template and print on two sided card-stock.

Printable May Day Basket

Cut out all pieces. Cut clear to the edge even though the lines don’t print clear to the edge. Spread glue stick  on 1/4 inch on edge of straight side. Fold paper together to make a cone. Overlap top edge no more than 1/2 inch. Seam can go to a point. Glue flower shapes to wood craft stick and then glue candy to center of flower. Glue or tape handle to cone, fill cone with some candy and add flowers.Gift tag can be attached by poking a hole in the tag and attaching a ribbon. Let your imagination run wild. The flowers would be extra cute with some paper embellishments or even glitter! How about adding some leaves to the wood craft stick— you could even write some sweet messages on the leaves.

Hang on your friend’s door and RUN!

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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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!”