The Feilding council helped us out by donating the paint and a whole lot of paint brushes. When the children saw all the new gear they were revving to go. We saw that we needed to do a little preparation so we weeded out the greenery that was growing around the fence and lay out some drop sheets to stop the paint from spilling. Then our excellent parent helpers poured the paint into little containers for everyone to get started on their work.
As soon as the first brush touched the corrugated fence it made a difference. We could see how the fresh colour would make the fence look like new. No one wanted to stand and watch and therefore there was a hive of activity as the children hummed away painting and laughing and enjoying caring for their community.
Although the children do not confess to being professional painters they worked hard and did a fine job with a pleasing result. Apart from the occasional drop of paint that went astray we thought that we didn't do too bad at keeping the paint on the fence.
All in all 'Kia mau te wehi nga tauira' awesome job on the fence and we can't wait until the next Enviro action day.
(We copied the whole story and put it into wordle and this is what it created)
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