Make a May Day Basket…bzzzt!
ByLast year, some friends of ours dropped off these fun May Baskets at our door. I declared them the cutest May Baskets I’d ever seen! The boys loved them!
May Day (May 1) is only a week away…so I just had to share these with you! Beecause these baskets are really beeautiful. (Sorry…you know I couldn’t write an entire post without some sort of silliness.)
Here’s what you need to make them:
- black, yellow and light blue construction paper
- glue stick
- elmer’s glue
- googly eyes
- white pom-poms
- black pipe cleaners
- pencil
- stapler
What to do:
Use elmers glue to fasten googly eyes to pom-poms. Allow glue to dry.
Cut black paper into a 9×9 inch square.
Cut off one corner into a curve.
Fold paper into a cone and staple ends in place.
Tear yellow paper into strips. Glue them as stripes onto the black construction paper cone.
Curve ends of pipecleaner around a pencil, fold pipecleaner in half, then fasten with stapler as antennae onto “bee”.
Cut a “heart” out of yellow paper for face, and a smile out of black paper for smile. Glue eyes and mouth onto face. Glue face to the rounded corner of the black paper, covering the staple used to attach the antennae.
You’ll find the pattern for the wings here. Trace it onto blue paper, then cut it out and staple it onto the back of the bee.
Fill “bee basket” with popcorn and other fun goodies.
Deliver them to your friends on May Day!
Aren’t these the most beecoming May Baskets you’ve ever seen?
Do you usually make and deliver May Baskets? Or, have you been the recipient of May Baskets before?
I really and truly think that it is one of my boys’ favorite “holidays”!
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Those are very cute! We’ve never done May baskets, but that is a fun idea!
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These are really cute. They would have been perfect for our VBS a few years ago – The Beatitudes. I used “Bee-Attitudes” along with the theme.
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I have never even heard of May Baskets. I have lived on the east coast (mostly the south) all my life… what parts of the country celebrate these?
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What a great idea. I didn’t know anyone did May baskets anymore. I’d read about them, but thought they were obsolete. We’ll have to do that this year.
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Thanks for the May basket idea. I think I will try and get the things around to make them with the kids.
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ok, I have also never heard of May baskets. Now I am going to have to google this:) The bees are so cute, though. We might have to start a new tradition around here!
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It’s cute that you’re keeping such an old fashioned holiday alive! I bet your older friends would really appreciate receiving this. I’ll have to remember this for later.
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I wanted to do something fun with the kids for May Day this year…I’m bookmarking this one. Thanks for sharing these adorable baskets!
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This is too fun! Thanks for sharing…I love the idea of May Day baskets!
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Oh, wow — someone else does May Day baskets?? Hurrah! I was afraid I might be the only one left in the world! :) I think it’s the sweetest “old-fashioned” idea, and your bee baskets are adorable. I’ve made them before in the same cone shape just of pretty scrapbooking paper, although some old (circa 1900-1920) crafting and homemaking books I have show some pretty elaborate patterns for making baskets out of cardstock with cutouts, ribbon “woven” in, etc. (They used to take May Day pretty seriously!)
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I’m so so happy to see that some people remember the May Day Baskets ! I thought i was the only one that remembered until i looked it up on Googles.I just remember making them out of long stripes of construction paper in different colors but for the life of me i can’t remember how to pet them together.Can you help me.I’v been using egg cartons for them or berry cartons.But to make them the way i did when i was young would make my heart happy.
God Bless Maggi
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Laura Reply:
April 29th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Hmm, I don’t know. It sounds like a cute idea though!
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We used to use strawberry baskets to place pansies in with ribbon tied around the basket, then hang them. We lived in New England and it was really big when I was a child.
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