It may not be the ideal weather for penguins, but that didn’t stop a group of kids (and even an adult) from painting them Friday morning.

Under Middleboro artist Robyn Iarrobino’s guidance, a group of about 40 children managed to keep the blue, black, and white paints used to create the penguins on their canvases (though several also ended up with the paint on their bodies and hair). It was Iarrobino’s second time in the last few months leading a kids’ paint class at the Y, as a fundraiser. At the cost of $25 a person for the class, Iarrobino said 40 percent of the proceeds will go to the Y, and the rest covers everything Iarrobino

Iarrobino said she has been leading such classes for several years, and that she loves how creative the kids get.

“I always try to make sure that they understand that their penguin doesn’t have to look like my penguin,” Iarrobino said. “Part of being creative is doing your own thing, not what the instructor is doing. And that’s when it gets fun. … I think, in today’s society, we tend to be a bit more rigid in what [children] do.”

Sole adult participant Harry Twitty said he had come with his grandson, “but he wasn’t interested, so I figured I would just do it.”

Onlooker Kerry Hayes didn’t have a child at the event, but remarked, as she stood eating a post-workout snack, that she wished the paint nights she attended were more like this one.

“This is more my speed, not the ones I have to do on real paint night,” Hayes said.