It all started when AP art teacher Dorrie Coleman came up with the idea to see if she could be sneaky, but not in a devious way.  She wanted to get people to look forward to something, give them another reason to smile while roaming the halls at PHS.   

And what gives students something to giggle about more than seeing rubber ducks and other bizarre items around the school?  

“I started with the ducks in August with staff,” Coleman said. “They were starting to find these things, and nobody could figure out where they were coming from, and I really kind of enjoyed that.”  

Hiding ducks for the teachers and staff sparked an even bigger idea, to start hiding other trinkets each month for the student body to join in on the comedic hunt.  

“People are now waiting for the next month, wondering what the next thing is going to be,” Coleman said.  

Coleman has been finding obscure places to hide her items, and where the staff and students are finding them are far from ordinary hiding locations.  

“I would float them in the ice bath where the cream cheese was or on top of the coffee maker or on top of Mr. Sunich’s computer, just really random and bizarre places,” Coleman said.  

Through the activity of cloaking her knickknacks, Colemon has discovered that sometimes things do not need to be hidden in hard-to-find places, but rather hidden in plain sight and nobody will notice.  

“I found that while I am talking to you, I can place something down on the table and you’d never know that that’s what I was doing,” Coleman said.   

Coleman has found it amusing how easy it can be to hide items in wide-open spaces, and students don’t double take to find them there.  

“It’s kind of funny,” Coleman said. “I can literally put them out while people are watching and they don’t even realize that that’s what I’ve done; it’s kind of great.”