Brielle does most of the artwork, she said.
Griffin-Caldeira said she enjoys painting colorful designs on rocks that “will get kids interested.
“Sometimes I will do a whole theme,” she added.
Griffin-Caldeira said she had inscribed quotes on rocks by the late children s author, Dr. Seuss.
“I had a rock with a quote on it that said, “a person is a person no matter how small,” she said.
Griffin-Caldeira said her daughter has put famous quotes by Seuss on various rocks in various parks. She has written quotes from Cat In The Hat and Thing 1 and Thing 2, she said. “She also did a Toy Story theme.”
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WEYMOUTH Hailey O’Donnell, 14, said she began painting encouraging messages and colorful designs on rocks during the height of the coronavirus pandemic because I had free time.
“They were fun to give to other people and spread kindness,” she added. “I did not realize how happy people would be when I gave them painted rocks.“
O’Donnell said she and her classmates in an English class at Adams Middle School were introduced to painting rocks by their teacher Lanette Griffin-Caldeira, founder of “Weymouth Rocks,” a community kindness project that began in 2019.
“Sometimes I wrote messages like spread kindness, hope or kindness is easily carried, ” she said.