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DIY May Day Baskets

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May Day is right around the corner and every year, we make DIY May Day baskets for our friends, family and neighbors. This year (like last year), we are making our May Day baskets out of soup cans. This is a great upcycling project for the kids. Not only are you using something from your recycling bin, but you can use up all the craft scraps you have lying around.

Learn how to make DIY May Day Baskets from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

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Supplies Used To Make DIY May Day Baskets:

Empty Soup Cans

Scrapbook Paper 

Ribbon

Buttons

Fabric And Paper Flowers

Twine

Burlap

Canvas Fabric

Raffia

Hot Glue Gun

Scissors

Some other supplies you could use are: yarn, stickers, bows, construction paper, markers.

Learn how to make easy DIY May Day Baskets from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

To start, I drilled two holes in the tops of each soup can to string twine through to make the handles for the DIY May Day Baskets.

Then, we measured and cut the scrapbook paper to fit the cans.

Learn how to make DIY May Day Baskets from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

We used hot glue to secure the paper on the can.

From there, we all got creative and just started added different supplies to the baskets.

Learn how to make easy DIY May Day Baskets from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

Some had burlap……

Make easy DIY May Day Baskets from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

…. others had ribbon and buttons.

Learn how to make simple DIY May Day Baskets from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

Easy DIY May Day Baskets made from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

I loved the ones that we added raffia to.Learn how to make DIY May Day Baskets from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

Projects like these are so much fun for the kids and me. I get to use up excess craft supplies, the kids get to create til their hearts’ content and we are saving the environment by using items from our recycling bin. The best part is that we get to make someone’s day at the end of it when we drop them off at their doorstep. 

Learn to make easy DIY May Day Baskets from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

Once all of the DIY May Day Baskets were created, we filled them with trinkets and treats. 

May Day is a great day to spread cheer and it doesn’t have to be hard or cost a lot of money to do it. 

Search around your recycling bin and craft supplies to see what you can come up with. 

Learn how to make upcycled DIY May Day Baskets from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

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Learn how to make easy, repurposed DIY May Day Baskets from scrap craft supplies and items found in your recycling bin.

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