Happy May Day! Do you make paper flower baskets and hang them on your friends' doorknobs?

here's an adorable idea from Family Fun magazine.





http://jas.familyfun.go.com/arts-and-cra...





You can make paper flowers for the bee basket, pick a few wild ones or buy some inexpensive carnations.





A fun twist would be just to leave a basket with flowers on a neighbors front steps with a poem celebrating May Day and welcoming spring. Then you can instruct them to copy the poem and leave some flowers and the basket on another neighbors step until everyone has experienced a random act of kindness.





This would be great anytime...May Day, or any day!

Happy May Day! Do you make paper flower baskets and hang them on your friends' doorknobs?
Not A Good Idea Here. Its Raing Pretty Bad. But Happy May Day.
Reply:I remember in elementary school we used to make the paper flowers and baskets - we even had a maypole in the classroom that we tried to dance around. But then again, it was the 70's and I lived in a very rural town, so it didn't take much to entertain the masses! :)
Reply:no, never heard of doing that
Reply:Never done this before. It sounds a good custom though. Next year I will do it with my son. Thanks for the idea.
Reply:We don't have that custom.It sounds a little bit interesting.And did you do that? Which country are you in?
Reply:no never heard of it
Reply:We did this when I was a boy. My son brought one home several years ago and I had forgotten about Mayday, I thought it was for Mother's day. We hid it in with my underwear. Later that day he gave it to her, he knew I was wrong. AT school they asked what the kids did with their may baskets and he said "put it in my dad's underwear drawer". I asked for that one.
Reply:I absolutly love Mayday! i think it is sad how nobody knows about it. me and my sister baked all these cookies and put them in cute bags with ribbon and put them on our friends doorsteps, nobody here knows what it is but its an awesome holiday. I used to live in Washington and our whole neighborhood would give everyone flowers and cookies, I would always wait and see if someone had given us a mayday basket!! HAPPY MAY DAY!!!





-swede
Reply:NO cant say that i have ever done or heard of anyone doing that although id love a basket of paper flowers on my door would def make me smile :)





HAPPY MAY DAY!!! now where is summer im ready for it
Reply:i have never heard of doing this
Reply:I've never made paper flower baskets. When I was little, we always ate a ton of strawberries in the weeks leading up to May Day. We would weave ribbons in and out of the holes in the green plastic containers the strawberries came in. Then we'd fill them with wildflowers that we picked, and hang them on the neighbors doors. It was a lot of fun. It's a tradition I'm going to start with my son, once I can find strawberries in the little green baskets.
Reply:no, never
Reply:no?. were does that thing comes from?.
Reply:I remember doing it. Gee that shows my age . We talked about it in a couple of my groups.
Reply:Nope. Can't say Iv'e done that before.
Reply:sometimes... if u want to no how, u get a pice of a4 paper, cut into the corners at diagonals into about 5cm. then curl these up to make box sahpe ;-)
Reply:No, I dance around a maypole and have sex (another traditional way of celebrating the day)
Reply:May Day is my favorite day of the year.


I always start the day by playing the song, "The Lusty Month of May," from Camelot, as loud as I can!


I always used to pick daffodils, put them in a paper basket, leave them at my neighbor's door, ring the doorbell, and run away as fast as I could. She would call my mother and say, "I just received the most beautiful flowers and can't imagine who they might be from!"


It took me years to figure out that she knew they were from me!


Now my sons leave tulips for our neighbors on each side of us. Sadly no one has ever called.........but we continue anyhow.


Happy May Day!