Growing up we celebrated May Day, which is May 1st, and we put a lot of effort into our baskets we would create. If you don’t know what May Day is click here. Basically, it is where a person creates a little basket with flowers or candy inside and they put it on the door steps of their sweetie, ring the bell and run! If the person answering the door catches the basket giver, the give them a kiss and send them on their way. I think it is a cute tradition, even if you feel a little silly doing it.
Crafts:
DLTK’s Crafts for Kids has a lot of cute May Day craft ideas to do with children
TLC also has a list of kid friendly craft ideas.
Martha Stewart, of course, has a cute and easy take on a May Day Basket.
Here are a couple non-traditional crafts for May Day:
These are adorable knit baskets that would be perfect.The pattern is by Vicki Mikulak and can be found on Ravelry.
This is a cute and easy cross stitch basket pattern for May Day.
Here are a couple of options if you’d like to buy instead of create:
The Etsy store Heartmade Treasures is selling this beautiful and traditional May Day Basket.
The Etsy Store ElsieAStyle has this elegant basket for sale.
This basket sold at Amazon would be a cute May Day Basket, just add flowers.