Things You'll Need:
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Step 1
Paint about 30 paint stirrers front and back with white paint and set them aside to dry. (These are generally available free at most hardware and paint stores.)
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Step 2
Attach the removable tray to your child’s wheelchair. Since every wheelchair is different, use the tray and seat back as a guide.
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Step 3
Take a piece of cardboard a few inches wider on each side than the wheelchair and about 4-feet long. Cut a hole in the center of the cardboard just as wide as the seat back. Cut the hole long enough to fit comfortably but snugly around the seat back and your child when seated in the wheel chair. The front of the cardboard should rest on the wheelchair tray.
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Step 4
Cut the front of the cardboard about 5 inches out from the tray. Cut the back of the cardboard about 5 inches from the back of the wheelchair. Trim the sides of the cardboard until the wheelchair can move easily through a standard doorway.
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Step 5
Cover the cardboard with brown tissue paper as a base and fold it over the sides to cover the cardboard edges. Make green tissue paper grass. Take a 5-inch square of green tissue paper and stick three fingers into the center. Fold and crinkle the paper square up around your fingers. Put a spot of glue on the end and place it on the top of the cardboard. Cover as much of the cardboard with tissue paper grass as you want, leaving some splotches of brown “dirt” in between.
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Step 6
Retrieve the white paint stirrer sticks. Begin at the front corner of the cardboard garden. Make a slit in the cardboard just wide enough to fit the end of a paint stirrer snugly. Make a row of vertical paint stirrers along the front of the garden, about an inch in from the side. Secure the paint sticks with duct tape on the bottom of the cardboard piece to make sure they do not fall through or get loose. Continue with sticks around the entire perimeter of the cardboard.
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Step 7
Glue a paint stick horizontally an inch from the top of the sticks to make a cross piece. Continue around the perimeter to finish the white picket fence. Add a second row of horizontal pieces below the first one if you have room. You may have to paint additional sticks white depending on the size of your garden.
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Step 8
Paint 10 additional paint stirrers with green paint. Cut out two leaf shapes from green felt for each stick. Glue them to either side of the stick at different heights. Cut a flower shape from any color felt. Cut a smaller yellow circle and glue in the center. Glue the flower blossom to the top of a green stick. Just behind the fence, make a slit for each flower. Place and secure them with duct tape.
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Step 1
Cut the center circle from a paper plate leaving the rim. Cut large flower petals from any color of felt. Glue the petals around the rim of the plate, overlapping the edges to completely hide the white plate. Cut a piece of elastic cord and secure one end to the side of the plate with glue. Place the plate in front of your child’s face and wrap the elastic cord around the back of her head to cut it at the right length. Secure the end of the cord to the other side of the plate.
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Step 2
Slip a green T-shirt on your child. Paint her face yellow, white or orange with face paint. Secure the flower mask around your child’s face.
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Step 3
Place your child in the wheelchair and lower the cardboard down over the seat back and torso. Use duct tape underneath to secure the cardboard to the tray and seat back.
