Hospital can be a pretty scary place when you're just a wee one, but a special community project has made the place a bit brighter for sick kids.
Now they'll have brightly-painted animal mobiles on their cots to distract them and help make the environment a little less clinical.
Rotorua Hospital assistant chaplain Allen Foote said the idea had been about 15 months in the making after hospital staff mentioned to him the need for mobiles on the cots.
Since then he's roped in the support of various people and businesses in the community.
Mr Foote said the mobiles took a lot of work in cutting and sanding the shapes, painting them and making sure they were securely attached to the beds thanks to volunteers like Steve Shipgood, Noel Lamberton and Joan Nicol.