I didn’t know kids still did that.
For those who don’t know, this was a tradition (at least in Illinois). When I was a kid in school you made a little paper cone out of construction paper, put a loop handle on it, and filled it with a few pieces of candy and some flowers on top. You then hung the “May Basket” on the door, usually for an elderly woman in the neigborhood, and you knocked on the door and ran away and watched from a distance to see her get her surprise May Basket.
My aunt told me she got one from the little boy across the street, but he knocked on the door and waited for her to open the door. She noticed the flower on top was most likely a lilac clipped from her own lilac bush out front, but in the little basket was some candy and some popcorn.
She invited her little benefactor in, and offered him an ice cream bar which he gladly accepted.
My aunt met the father of the boy a few days later and he said the boy was thrilled with doing it, and that she might as well have given him a million dollars due to the ice cream treat for doing it.
I just think it is cool that they keep this traditon alive in the grade schools in Illinois.
They no longer have them, but in our grade school playground, we actually had two sreel Maypoles that we would use with ribbons on May first.
