Use your imagination for your May Day baskets craft ideas! It's just a simple cone shape with paper flowers! You can draw on the outside, sticker them, or leave them plain. It's up to you how you want to decorate your May Day basket! Our friends have loved these cute May Day basket ideas and it's a sweet kindness craft for kids to do each Spring.
Rolo candiesHershey Kisses, or hard candies of choice (for center of flowers)
Tissue paperoptional
Stickersoptional, for decorating
Instructions
FOR THE BASKET:
Decorate, draw, or sticker on one side of a piece of colored craft paper. (Optional. You can also leave it plain.)
Roll the piece of craft paper into a cone shape, with the decorated side out. Tape or staple the cone down the open sides so it stays in the cone shape. (This is your May Day Basket.)
For the basket handle, cut a strip of another piece of colored craft paper 2-inches wide along the top of the paper. Color, sticker or decorate the handle (optional). Staple the handle (paper strip) onto the basket (cone) to form a handle.
FOR THE FLOWERS:
Cut flower shapes out of different colors of craft/construction paper. We did some in a daisy shape and some in a tulip shape, but you can cut your flowers any way you want! (It's fun to let kids come up with their own without a template and encourages creative thinking!)
Choose a couple of the flowers (the round/daisy shaped ones work best) and use glue dots or tape to place a piece of the candy in the middle. (We used Rolos.)
Turn the flower face over and tape a green pipe cleaner onto the back for the stem. When you're making the stem for the flowers with the candy in the middle, you may have to double up and twist the pipe cleaners before taping them onto the "flower" in order to make the stem stronger.
ASSEMBLE THE BASKET:
Crumple a piece of tissue paper and stuff into the bottom of the basket (cone). This is an optional step, but we found that it helped make the paper flowers stand up better.
Place a few pieces of candy/treats on top of the tissue paper.
Carefully arrange the paper flowers in the cone basket.
Write a note to your friends, punch a hole in it and loop it around the handle with one of the pipe cleaners (or a piece of twine). (We included a brief history of May Day on our cards.)
Sneak over to your neighbor or friend's house and leave your May Day baskets hanging on their doorknob!
REPEAT THE PROCESS UNTIL YOU'VE MADE AS MANY BASKETS AS YOU NEED. WE FOUND WE COULD MAKE ABOUT 4 BASKETS IN 30 MINUTES.