Matariki Art

My class and I had to create a matariki art to present to our school about. Matariki is 'New Year' in Maori and is indeed very important to the Maori culture. Matariki has 9 stars, Waipuna-a-rangi, Ururangi, Matariki, Tupu-a-rangi, Tupu-a-nuku, Waiti, Waita, Pohutukawa and Hiwa-ite-rangi. As a 'newbeeie' to Matariki, I'm very interested in knowing the 9 stars and their meaning.  

Our teacher made 4 activities we had to choose from, the whare made with ice block sticks with stars surrounding it, the star which you draw and write meaningful words around it, Acronym about matariki and art painting silhouette. As you know I chose art because of its wonderful sunset and surrounding.  

Back to my art, I'm not that creative but I loved the sunset and the silhouette that I wanted to try it so bad and so I gave it a go. It was very fun and turned out better than I imagined, there were some tricky parts like making the colour blend, trying to rub off our mistakes without making a whole and spreading the white paint everywhere. To be honest it was especially hard because we used dye instead of paint, the only colour we used paint for was white because our teacher said it'll look much better and easier. 

The art I created with a few of my classmates was very outstanding and better than I expected. I can't wait to present this to the rest of my classmates as well as students around the school. I hope you also like my work and decide to leave a kind and thoughtful blog comment! Thank you :)

Summer !

  

 Kick Start

 Step it up 

Step it up !

This first activity was a challenge and got me thinking what my favourite things are in summer and found it. This was a very good activity to complete, it was fun and cool ! my favourite part about this was looking and finding the pictures, I went across some amazing aesthetic photographs. This definitely was a good opportunity for me, I loved this activity and can't wait for more!

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Float your boat !

                                                     Paper boat, Square end boat , Canoe 

~Float

                                                                                ~ Sink

                                                                                ~ Float

This activity I had lots of fun!, I think this activity has been an amazing opportunity to learn how to make origamis, as you can see I put a handful of rocks/stones into these boats and as you can see it has no effect whatsoever, square end boat sank. 

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo

  - Kick Start  - Step it up 

This activity was fun and quite easy, I think the challenging part about this was finding out what design your going to do, but apart from that I had a great time completing this activity! 

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My Hana Koko design

 

This activity was definitely a challenge, this activity got me thinking if santa was in tonga what would he be wearing?, and so that question made me thought of this idea as well as my inspiration. This is called a Puletaha that we wear in church,special occasion, weddings and more. Puletahas are mainly for church but we want to acknowledge our Island in all that we do. The challenging part about this was trying to figure out the costume, This shows a white tongan t-shirt as well as a plain black tupenu. On the sides of the clothing are the accessories, on the right side is a Kafa as well as a Kahoa, on the left side of the costume is a Ta'ovala, you may see most boy and girl where ta'ovala to church,funeral and more. This activity was definitely fun and can't wait for more!

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Thank you SLJ team,Mrs Grant and Fellow helpers

Building a xylophone

 

Today's activity is making a xylophone with nanogirl!, This activity was so fun to do and very cool. Sorry I couldn't record myself because my front camera isn't working only letting me share my screen and talk. This activity was cool, especially doing this activity with my fellow bloggers and nanogirl!, I learnt so much while doing this activity and the sounds of each and one of them. This wasn't challenging at all except when you have to cut the papers to a certain length. This was definitely my favourite activity so far.

Materials : 5 papers, scissors , tape

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Thank you SLJ team, Mrs Grant, Fellow helpers and Nanogirl! 

Optical Illusions?!

Triangle Optical Illusion!

This is my Optical Illusion, I decided to draw this because it looked cool and simple and I wanted something nice and simple. Even though this is a simple illusion it looks absolutely stunning, this piece of work I created only needed 3 materials which were paper,pencil and ruler.  

This is very simple which will mean you will be able to do this too, all you need to do is draw a triangle, WAIT WAIT! , draw a triangle thats 3D shaped! Did I get you? comment down below if this helped or if you have any questions.

Tanerore !

Kick Start

Step it up

This activity was a BLAST ! I had so much energy and fun drawing these Maori patterns, This was challenging because I would always ruin a part. These designs I drew includes, Koru, Kowhai Ngutu Kaka and Mango Pare. 

Comment down below which Maori pattern is your favourite?