Entries in a colouring competition that will determine the final look of three miniature Caymanian cottages have been flooding in, with young artists submitting more than 100 pictures of the tiny buildings.
A team of local volunteers have been working on getting the little cottages, which used to sit by the roadsides in West Bay, restored or rebuilt.
Now, once they’ve been painted – based on the winning colouring designs by the kids who entered the competition – they can be put in place.
Fiona Jackson, who spearheaded the project, says she is hoping that three sponsors can be found to help fund the paint for each little house. “We can name each house then after the sponsors,” she said.
She’s also seeking assistance from a company to help secure the houses in place, with concrete or other methods.
“So many people have helped with this,” she said, “from A. L. Thompson’s for the building materials, David Smith for building them, and Cayman Structural Group for moving them to West Bay,” Jackson said.
She also thanked the schoolchildren for taking part.
A winner will be chosen soon, she said.
Smith built the original little houses, each of which are about three feet high, in the mid-to-late 2000s. The structures, which had been dotted on roadsides around West Bay, had fallen into disrepair over the years.
Last year, Jackson enlisted Smith’s help to restore or rebuild them.
Here are the entries to the competition.
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