This flower garden in a box will make a great Valentine’s Day present.

YOU WILL NEED:
• Shoe box (any size)
• Photos of flowers, a birdbath, a garden bench (from catalogs, magazines, etc.)
• Construction paper
• Lightweight cardboard
• Glue

DIRECTIONS:
1. Cut a three-inch hole at one end of the shoebox, then glue green construction paper on the inside bottom of the box for grass. Add some blue paper on the walls to look like the sky.
2. Glue the photos of trees, bushes, and the garden bench around the inside walls of the box.
3. Glue the flowers and the birdbath on cardboard cut to match their outlines. Leave a tab at the bottom of the cardboard.
4. Glue the cardboard tabs to the bottom, with the photos facing the hole in the end of the box.
5. Decorate the box with construction paper and cut-out flowers, and show Mom how to look through the hole at the garden inside.