You get the Gardening Shears this way. Go to the far right of the town where you start off. There will be a 5 dollar bill in a tree. Go to the Souvenir shop and talk to the guy there. Buy a sports drink and give it to the gardener who says "It's hotter than the Jersey Devil's breath out here!" then he will give you the Gardening Shears!
You get the garden shears by giving the thirsty gardener something to drink. There is a $5 bill in the tree at the far right on Mansion Row. Buy a sports drink at the store and give it to the worker, and he will loan you his garden shears.
Go to the store and buy a sports drink for the thirsty gardener. You can use his garden shears at the the far left of the island, to cut loose a hot air balloon.
There is no yarn in a tree that you can get. There is a $5 bill in a tree, and there is some nylon rope at Cliff Park -- cut loose the hot air balloon with the garden shears.
go farthest to the left of the island and climb up the lighthouse you'll see a guy in a hot air balloon. talk to him then go to items get the shears and cut the string.
You have to get garden shears from the gardener dude by getting him a sports drink. And how to get the sports dring you have to get 5 dollars from the tree. If you want a more detailed answer go to the link below.
There are no scissors. You get Garden Shears from the gardener (find $5 in a tree to the right, buy him a sports drink at the store). You get Bolt Cutters in Puerto Rico (upper left star on the map, at the top of the hill).
The shears are used to cut loose a hot air balloon at Cliff Park (gives you some rope), and at the end of the quest to cut loose a cage holding Bigfoot.
Find the $5 bill in the tree on Mansion Row, and buy a sports drink for the thirsty gardener. Use his garden shears at Cliff Park to cut loose the balloonist, and you will get some nylon rope.
Take them all the way left to Cliff Park, and cut loose the hot air balloonist. You will use them again at the end of the quest.
Give it to the gardener trimming the hedges. You can use his shears to cut the line for the balloonist at the far left at Cliff Park.
Give the hang glider girl a shove on the rocks by the lighthouse, and use the garden shears to cut loose the hot air balloon. This gives you some nylon rope and you can borrow the KiteSurfer from the kite store, and come back to try it out at the lighthouse.
If you have the shears from the gardener, cut the rope for the hot air balloon just above her. If you don't have the shears, get the $5 bill from the tree by the mansion, and buy the thirsty gardener a sports drink. Then go and cut the rope.