Kids get persuasive with useless' items

Do annoying cats or birds attack your garden?
Or, do you need a new headboard for your bed?
Eleven-year-old Holly Penpred thinks she has the perfect solution, and is selling Horrific Hula Hoops on Trade Me.
Horrific Hula Hoops are made from a traditional hula hoop, broken into two half-circle shaped pieces. The two half-circles can be used to improve your quality of life, Holly said.
Students in Room 6 at Greenpark School in Tauranga have been learning to write persuasively and have listed a range of "useless" items on Trade Me, to fundraise for their end of year class trip, said teacher Andrew Sinton-White.
Some of the listed items include broken cap guns, yoyos without strings and used toothbrushes.
Mr Sinton-White said the students had been "very creative" and had learnt a lot through the exercise.
"This has given them the chance to use the computer and a lot of them hadn't used Trade Me before," he said.
To view or purchase the items, visit Trade Me and search GPS Rm.6.