Marvellous Matariki kites.

 Happy Matariki everyone! 

On the 2 July we celebrated the Māori New Year, a time to consider the year ahead. The days are starting to lengthen and spring will soon be here, we just need to get through this cold winter first! 

Matariki and the the star cluster, have got many stories attached to them. We looked at two; one about how Ranginui and Papatuanuku were separated by Tāne Mahuta, and how Tāwhirimatea was so angry he ripped out his eyes and threw thunderbolts to the sky, creating the cluster, and another story about 7 sisters making kites, and them going to the sky. Ururangi’s kite was different from the rest, it was rainbow coloured. We have mixed these two stories to create the design of our kites.

My kite has Tawhirimatea and the wind represented with the clouds. I then coloured it in as a rainbow.

What stories have you heard about Matariki?

Matariki Printing!

Kia Ora bloggers! 2 weeks ago on Friday we started a matariki art task, It was called foam printing, Basically we had to draw our mountains and seven stars onto a practice piece of paper as a draft copy. once we had done that it had been checked of by a teacher to see if we could get our foam piece, once we got it we had to copy our design onto our piece of foam carefully without piercing it. when we had fully copied the design we went to dye it. There was a roller with coloured dye on it (multi-pule of them)  we would roll it onto our foam piece and then press it onto a piece of A4 paper, leaving the indented lines white and leaving a coulred desin of the background so the stars and the mountain outlines were were visible. have you ever done foam rolling? if so was it at home or at school? 

Have a great afternoon! <3