A group of Dunedin children are shunning free time these school holidays and bringing a bit of colour to their neighbourhood.
Greater Green Island Community Network worker Amanda Reid said there was previously a mural from Keep Dunedin Beautiful there, but over time the anti-tagging coating had worn.
Last year especially it became covered in graffiti, she said.
About 20 young volunteers have this week been painting the Runciman St pedestrian tunnel linking Green Island with Abbotsford.
Volunteers painting a new mural in the Runciman St tunnel under the in Green Island (standing, from left) Kaden Hopping, Tyler Sivertsen, Amanda Reid, Ehren van Strik-Taylor, Matt Hurring, artist Jonathan Waters, Nicole McCarthy, Luke Milmine, Ruby Warrington, Olivia Edmonds (obscured), Skyla Cherry, Cassidy Moore, Aiden Heads; (seated, from left) Alyssa Duthie, Mariam Abboud Agha, Mikayla Barnes, Maggie McDonald, Maddison Wilson, Isabelle Edmonds, Lexie Bottomley and Krystal Kerr.
Senior Community Constable Fred Jansen delivers hot chips to mural-painting children. PHOTOS: CHRISTINE O'CONNOR
The network organised a local painter to waterblast the walls and people doing community work helped prepare them for painting.
Dunedin artist Jonathan Waters worked with intermediate school pupils to design the mural, she said.
"Every young person has designed what goes in their letter."
The brightly illustrated words "Abbotsford" and "Green Island" line the respective sides of the wall.
Another smaller section of the tunnel will be painted by Waters and other artists.
Today is the last of three painting days and the network hopes to have an official unveiling on October 18.
