Pupils’ pebble art shows how Fort William rocks
Lundavra Primary School pupils have been painting pebbles as part of a online art campaign.
The youngsters have joined in with the Fort Rocks online campaign which involves finding, painting and then hiding rocks around Fort William to ‘show everyone exactly how much Fort William Rocks’.
The idea is to paint a stone with either a picture or a phrase showing a random act of kindness and leave it for someone to find. The pebble-art campaign has become a worldwide craze and some of Fort William’s stones have reached as far as Arizona and Perth, Australia.
Mrs Thomson’s Lundavra Primary School group painted their stones last week and have varnished them ready for the Lochaber weather.
The pupils will hide them over the October break with a Facebook logo on the back and the words ‘Fort Rocks’.
Leah Whyte started the Fort Rocks Facebook page along with Katy MacDonald after her son Yusuf, a Caol Primary School pupil, loved looking for the rocks.
Mrs Whyte said: ‘Lots of parents are commenting that it’s getting the youngsters away from electronic tablets and TVs and back into getting outdoors to find stones or to hide them and they are enjoying spending time with the children while they paint.’
Go to the Fort Rocks – Painting, Hiding and Finding Facebook page to follow the journey of some of the stones.