Fun for all ages! Sapphire Griffin (front row, second from the left) enjoyed the community feeling on the day. ‘I liked how they let us have a turn of the chopping. I enjoyed how mums could have a turn. The kids and the teachers and the grown-ups could have a turn. I liked how the grown-ups came. We were in the shed where you cut the wood. We were doing some cutting and learning how to chop wood in the olden days.
Prêt–à-firey Grace Cullen took to the catwalk to model a fireman’s outfit. ‘I was wearing the fire suit with the fire hat to show everyone how it looked. The firemen wear it to protect them. It was too big! I enjoyed it because I was the first one to wear it. We got to sit on the fire engine. It was fun because it was an olden-day one.’
‘How much wood would a woodchuck chuck?’ It was a hard day’s work for Sanaa Seethyah. ‘We were chopping wood. We were in a shed learning how to cut wood. They cut wood with saws because it was a better way to cut wood. It took two people because it was a two-people saw. We had to pull the saw. The people were nice because they let us have a turn.’
Fire! Fire! Lachlan Crawford (right) enjoyed dressing up to fight fires. ‘I was fighting the fire. I was at the front and then I had to move to the back. I was holding the fire hose which was kind of heavy. We were spraying the fire and the person and something else. I enjoyed fighting the fire. It wasn’t a real fire. It was like a little spinny one. We liked to get dressed up in the costumes. My favourite thing was all the costumes and stuff. I was running here and there and I was getting wet ‘cos Mrs Troughton was pointing the hose sideways so we could get wet.’
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