Water guns, toilet roll, fancy dress from Queensland’s Muck Up Day

There were countless rolls of toilet paper, streamers, and cling wrap used on students and school buildings. The outfits ranged from T-Rex costumes to Super Mario Bros characters.

Queensland Year 12 students took to TikTok last week to share their Muck Up Day antics in the classrooms, bathrooms and yards.

Creative costumes were aplenty and the use of toilet roll and streamers around the school grounds was generous.

One video featured outgoing students Lourdes Hill College in Hawthorne in inner-Brisbane, overlooking the Brisbane River.

The independent Catholic all-girls school caters for Years 7-12 and charges around $10,000 per year in fees, depending on year level.

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This year’s cohort of outgoing girls dressed as nuns and cheerleaders – to name a few of the costumes – and took a liking to marker pen moustaches.

Their Muck Up Day antics included covering halls, classrooms, and yards in toilet paper and streamers. They also managed to put a chair in a tree.

There were also students restrained by cling wrap, water fights with balloons and pistols, chairs and plastic cups in stairwells, and making a mess in the school’s bathrooms.

Meanwhile, at Genesis Christian College, the theme seemed to be T-Rex costumes with unicycles and miniature bicycles.

The coeducational Christian school at Bray Park, north of Brisbane, has Prep to Year 12 students and charges annual fees of $5000-$7000.

Students donned plenty of high-vis shirts and safari costumes, there was a procession of T-Rex outfits, as well as a priest.

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Skateboards, scooters, a miniature bicycle, a tricycle, and a unicycle were all brought into school for the celebratory day and ridden around the grounds.

In a truly bizarre idea, one student tied what is believed to be a car bonnet to his back and wrote “sign me” on it for his peers.

The usual toilet paper guns were out in force in the video captioned “thriving in chaos”.

Up north, school-leavers’ celebrations at Saint Patrick’s College in Townsville were more restrained, with the most rebellious act being zip tying lockers shut.

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The independent Catholic girls’ college, established by the Sisters of Mercy, charges $5000-$6000 annually.

Students created a sea of colourful hats, skirts, fairy wings, hair accessories and face paint.

There were also Year 12s in slippers and kimono outfits.

Staying at the state’s top end, outgoing students at Redlynch State College in Cairns pulled out all the stops with their costumes.

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The outfits included Bananas in Pyjamas, safari costumes, an AFL umpire, a Jedi, a knight, and various characters from Super Mario Bros.

Plenty of students also came armed with water guns.