Kia Ora everyone,
welcome to my blog. For the past few weeks or so we have been looking at Matariki. We did some art at the start, and now we are doing matariki kites. On June the 2nd was matariki. Matariki and the Pleiades 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. We had to draw our tiki, colour in in with pastel and then coloured the background with water colour!
Do you celebrate mataraki?
