Forfar primary pupils have set all ages a novel festive challenge with a local winter walkabout.
The P4 youngsters at Strathmore school have repurposed and decorated 25 wooden pallet Christmas trees, now dotted locally on a seasonal trail.
The school hopes locals will get into the festive spirit after the enterprise group children worked on the fundraiser.
Teacher Lynsey Mathieson said: “This is going to be a very different festive period for children and their families.
“More people will be staying home during the holidays.
“So we thought an outdoors adventure would be the best way to spread some seasonal joy.
“It just snowballed from there,” she added.
Maps available for families to complete winter walk
Maps with the tree locations have been produced for free by local printing firm Astute.
The school is also hoping to create extra excitement around the trail with their #strathietrees social media hashtag.
Primary 4s 🌲 Christmas Tree Trail 🌲 advert. #enterprise #strathietrees #forfarcommunity #funinp4
More information to follow 🌲🌲🌲🌲🎄🎄🎄🎄 pic.twitter.com/BjJWOIHeQd— Strathmore Primary (@StrathmorePS) November 20, 2020
“People seem to like that the pupils have put so much of themselves into decorating and ‘planting’ the trees around Forfar,” added Mrs Mathieson.
“Anything that we can raise for laptops is great but it’s open to everyone.”
They dropped off one of the trees to PC Scott Anderson at Forfar police station, with shops, businesses and other locations also on board.
The hope is families will tour the town to tick off all the trees on the trail.
Maps are available in all Forfar’s primary schools and to the public via the library, St Margaret’s, East & Old, St Fergus and Lowson churches and Angus Pet and Aquatics.
Angus towns live stream local lights switch-ons
The trail launch comes as Angus communities brightened up their town centres with virtual lights switch-ons.
Sixth-year-Forfar Academy pupils helped town P1s in a small-scale ceremony at The Cross.
In Montrose a small crowd joined in the live streaming of Santa Claus leading the local lights switch-on.
Carnoustie residents were encouraged to flick the switch on their own home displays at the same time as the streets were lit up in a virtual event and Arbroath is geared to stream its switch-on at 8pm on Monday.
