Bubble gum, cheese puffs, hard candy, licorice, popcorn, pretzels, suckers and other assorted treats accompanied by pastel-colored ribbons wrapped around the basket handle created a May Day basket.

Another tradition is the May Day basket. According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, this was popular back in the 19th and 20th centuries. First, people would fill paper baskets or cones with treats ...

“A May-basket is — well, I hardly know how to describe it; but ‘tis something to be hung on a door," a reporter explained in the Sterling, III., Gazette in 1871, according to NPR.org. ...