Matariki celebration

Manu tukutuku

Matariki happens in June it happens in the first week.  We celebrate Matariki by doing nice things like playing with knucklebones,  doing pukana challenges and making kites.   Matariki is a special celebration.  Matariki are the  seven stars or seven sisters.   We made kites because it was a Matariki celebration and it's a māori new year.   

We made kites and this is how we made them.  We made kites out of flax, wool, toetoe, and a roller.  We measured the toetoe with a roller and it was 117 cm long.   Then we had to do a speech for miss hills to video.  We instructed Miss Hills to cut the toetoe into three groups so we can do our kite.  We started getting wool to tie up the toetoe so it can stay still. We had to go over and under for it to stick we spread the toetoe out so we can tie it.  I was holding the sides of the toetoe so Sonia can tie it up. Then we got more wool and measured it with a roller so we know where to cut it.  Then we used our fingers to criss cross and go under all the way to the top.  We had to do it three times because we had three sticks sticking out.    We had to do it three times to stick the flax on then Miss Hills cut out a triangle to stick and do our patterns on.  We used the hot glue gun to stick on the kite.  The hardest  part was when we tied it up and the easiest part was when we drew our patterns and stuck it on.