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MAY DAY BASKET

Your choice of blue or pink for the colour printer or black&white.

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May Day Basket

Materials:

bulletprinter,
bulletglue, 
bullet scissors, 
bullet something to colour with and 
bullet a piece of paper

Instructions:

bulletPrint out the template of choice. 
  
bulletColour the pieces as appropriate.
  
bulletCut the pieces out.   (Cutting may require adult assistance and can be pre-done).  Cut along the solid lines only!
  
bulletYou might want to practice making the cone (without gluing).   The kids think it's pretty "magical" how the flat piece of paper turns into a cone!
  
bulletGlue or tape the flowers onto the outside of the cone.  You can also put some stickers on for added decoration.
  
bulletIf you look at the bottom of the half circle (the straight part), you'll see the "glue here".  Glue the side to the right to the glue here section.
  
bulletAttach a paper or ribbon handle. 
  
bulletFill with real flowers or candies and hang on the door of a friend (or the bedroom door of a sibling!). 
   
bulletOR, make some tissue paper flowers (put 4 or 5, eight inch squares of flower coloured tissue paper on top of each other.  Scrunch in the middle and tie a piece of string or scotch tape around.  Fluff out the pieces of tissue paper.)
  
bulletYou can make the same kind of basket by cutting a paper plate in half and stapling it into a cone.  Decorate with flowers/stickers.
  
  
bulletClose the template window after printing to return to this screen. 
   
bulletSet page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one page (FILE, PAGE SETUP in most browsers). 
 

Template  (blue)   or   (pink)   or   (B&W)

 

  

Printable version of these instructions