It may have been cold and wintry outside but the temperatures rose and the sunshine came out for little ones at Saint James' Church in Quedgeley.
Youngsters at Saint James' Chatterbox playgroup put the cold weather to one side for a morning and crafted their own sunshine faces, cut out of paper plates and brightly coloured yellow paper.
Some of the paper had been recycled from Christmas wrapping. The children then stuck lolly sticks to the paper plates and used the plates as a frame for their faces.
Father John Ward, Rector and Parish Priest said: "It was certainly warming to see all the 'sunshine' in the church this morning. The children were thrilled to bits with the craft activity. There will be plenty of sunshine in and around Quedgeley after this activity, Spring will have come to Quedgeley early as I'm sure many will wear their sunshine faces going home."
