May Day Baskets

A wonderful but old-fashioned May Day tradition is to make little cone-shaped baskets and quietly deliver them to neighbors, secretly hanging them on doorknobs.

To make these small baskets, first fold a sheet of construction paper into quarters... take a quarter sheet and shape it into a cone by curling one corner over to the opposite corner, making one end wide and the other end tapering to almost a point. Tape it together in this cone shape.

Next take a strip of paper about 1/2 inch by about 10 inches
and tape this to the cone for the handle. Put a little tissue paper in the bottom of the cone.


Now gather wild flowers or flowers you have growing in your spring garden

and put them in the baskets.

Now the best part; walk through your neighborhood with them...

and secretly hang them on the doors...

Happy May Day!