SIX youngsters have raised almost £400 for Comic Relief in a loom band marathon.

Lucy Brown, Kiana Earlam, Daisy Preece, Hazel Bishop, Ellie Donoghue and Poppie Dulwich starting ‘looming’ at Lucy’s house in Beaminster on Friday straight after school and continued late into Saturday.

The youngsters, aged between 7 and 9, completed 54 metres of the brightly coloured loom and found time to make their ‘faces funny for money’ and for a cupcake decorating ‘bake off’.

Proud mum Rachel Brown said she’d imposed ‘rules’ for the Comic Relief fundraiser to keep the girls on track and to impress on them that the fun had a serious side.

She said: “They started looming pretty much as soon as I picked them up from school . They stopped to sleep obviously. Then at six o’clock in the morning they were awake all sat up looming in bed first thing in the morning it was really cute.

“There was a system, if they were all looming at the same time but if they got bored we had a bit of a timetable going on so if they got bored they needed to look at the timetable to see who had to be looming, so they at least one person was constantly looming.

“They needed to understand that this was a fund raising event that they’d committed to rather than it just being a sleepover at Lucy’s house.

“They took it all very seriously and they were very good at checking the time and seeing who should be doing it.”

They are at least £340 on the Comic Relief website and more sponsorship to come.

Mum Rachel was constantly putting updates n Facebook and Twitter during the event and that helped with the fundraising, she said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if it reached £400 which is quite good for quite a simple exercise.”

Rachel’s coiled the finished loom and photographed it and may even frame it, but at the moment it’s hanging on the bathroom door on the only hook in the house big enough.

A facepainter came out on Saturday morning from Smartypants and donated her time to keep in with the theme of ‘make your face funny for money’ and Rachel made special Comic Relief T shirts with pictures of the girls wearing red noses.

“They really enjoyed it all and I am very proud of them,” said Rachel.

Anyone who wants to donate more can do so on the my.rednoseday.com/sponsors/loom-band-players website.

If you are doing anything for Comic Relief tomorrow let us know and send us in your pictures, we’d love to see them.