May Day Craft for Kids

May Day is right around the corner.  Surprise your neighbor by leaving a May Day basket filled with flowers or your favorite (peanut-free!) treats! Looking for an easy May Day basket craft?  You’re in the right place!

You will need:
An empty SunButter jar, scissors, ribbon, hot glue or tape, colored paper, and materials with which to fill your basket. We used straws/sticks, markers, SunButter On-The-Go cups [Editor’s Note: pouches shown are no longer available], flower seed packets and some candy! Many people prefer filling their jars with fresh cut flowers.

Instructions:

1. Begin with a clean, empty SunButter jar.  Click here for tips on cleaning out a near-empty jar.

2. Place May Day gifts within jar.

For our gifts, we made butterflies and candies on straws/sticks.  If you have other treats, skip to step 5.

3. For butterflies, fold colored paper in half and cut a capital “B” shape.  Color on the butterfly as you like.  Use glue or tape to attach candies for the butterflies’ bodies (suckers, smarties, and sixlets work well. Click here for a list of peanut-free treats.)  Wait for the glue to dry.  Then attach butterfly to straws/sticks.

4. In a similar manner, glue or tape SunButter On-The-Go packs, flower seed packets, or other treats to end of straws/sticks.

5. Cut ribbon to about one foot long.

6. Using glue or tape, attach ribbon to rim of jar on opposing sides.

7. Surprise a friend by leaving your “basket” on their door for May Day!