Happiness Rocks Moncton, a Facebook group, has about 5,000 people who paint and hide rocks around the Moncton area to make others smile. The rocks have also ended up in different cities and sometimes even abroad.
New Brunswickers paint and hide rocks to bring smiles to faces
Rhythm Rathi · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 13, 2025 6:17 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
Moncton’s Lynn Kelly hid Halloween-themed rocks around Centennial Park on Thanksgiving Day. (Rhythm Rathi/CBC)
Lynn Kelly spent part of her Thanksgiving in Moncton’s Centennial Park enjoying her new retirement hobby.
The Moncton woman hid some brightly painted Halloween-themed rocks in random spots in the west-end park in hopes they’d bring a smile to someone’s face.
Within a few minutes, one of the rocks was gone. Kelly said she may or may not find out where it ended up, but that’s part of the fun for her.
“Not all people will … tell you that they found them — some do, some don’t, some keep them, some re-hide them.”
Some examples of Kelly’s rock artwork. (Lynn Kelly)
Kelly is part of a Facebook group called Happiness Rocks Moncton. The group has about 5,000 members who paint and hide rocks around the area for the simple pleasure of making someone’s day when they find them.
“I’ve had two posts on that page saying they took them back to France,
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