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A Glasgow youngster is spreading joy to other kids and encouraging families to head outdoors by hiding colourful rocks around her local area.

Orla, 7 and mum Erin McGill, 29, from Penilee, have been painting and drawing designs on little pebbles for several weeks and planting them in hidden spots for other people to find.

They created a Facebook page named Orla's Rocks where they encourage other families to head outside and try to spot them. Those who do can then share a photo of their proud discovery before hiding it again for someone else.

Erin says in the short time since the page was created, dozens of families have gotten on board with the fun game, with people taking to social media to show-off their findings every single day.

The mum-of-three told: "We only started it a few weeks ago but already the page has around 140 members on it which is amazing. There's between five and eight people posting on it to say they've found them every day so it's really good.

"Everybody seems really excited, kids have been getting their mums out in the rain and everything looking for them.

"Some people have been finding two and three a day so they must be looking really hard as we don't find them that easy."

Erin and Orla decided to start decorating rocks after seeing other communities taking part in the rock painting game on social media.

Erin said: "I spotted it on Facebook somewhere else and Orla really liked the idea so we started doing it in our local area in Penilee.

"We bought some special pens and found rocks. Orla paints some and I paint some and then we go around hiding them. We are loving it because there's so many people actually going out and looking for them every day which is really good.

"We've done a Mary Poppins rock, a Pokemon one - things that will interest people. Sometimes there's nice wee comments on them too. Sometimes we do random designs.

"One of my friends that I work with is in Australia this weekend so she's taken some out with her. So we have some Scotland-themed ones over there."

The rock-painting game gets families to go outside and explore, while encouraging kids to be creative and bringing the community together.

Erin says that it has also been a great bonding experience for her and her daughter, along with sons Jay, 10 and Harry 2.

During the Easter break the family plan on hiding more rocks, expanding the search further afield and Erin hopes more families will get involved.

She added: "People can add the Facebook page or they can go out and look for them, or they can just start making them themselves. If you want to do it in your own area just start up a Facebook page like us.

"It's a great idea especially as it's going to be better weather coming in as well. It gets kids and their parents out and about."