Rock on: A simple and creative activity for children, launched by two Wyndham mothers, has taken off on social media.
Friends Lisa Cornish and Sandra Tomlinson founded the Facebook group Point Cook Rocks in April.
Both women paint and hide small rocks around Point Cook’s parks and playgrounds, for children to find and re-hide.
Other families are encouraged to paint and hide rocks too.
They post the rocks’ location – or perhaps a clue – in the Facebook group, so people can search for them.
Mrs Cornish and Mrs Tomlinson, who each have two sons, said the aim of the page was to start a fun, low-cost activity which anyone could take part in.
Mrs Cornish said they were inspired by geocaching, and also wanted to create an activity which would allow their sons Luis, Sami, Kyle and Alex to play together.
She said they were surprised by how popular the Point Cook Rocks group, which has amassed more than 780 members, had become.
Mrs Tomlinson said some of the group’s members had hidden the rocks outside of Point Cook, in areas such as Truganina and Laverton.
“My boys prefer the hiding part of it, because they get to play in the parks,” Mrs Tomlinson said.
“My husband thinks it’s hilarious, he says, ‘You and your pebbling’.”
Mrs Tomlinson said they also used the rocks to raise awareness of issues, such as pollution, and had released a series of rocks painted with Anzac Day-themed pictures earlier in the year.
For more information visit www.facebook.com/groups/PointCookRocks
