Matariki Celebration

On the first week of June each year our school celebrates Matariki.

Matariki is a māori new year, the māori new year is a time to have fun, bring families together, do kapa haka, share food, singing, dancing, telling stories and lots more.

Matariki is also the 7 sisters or the 7 stars. In our classroom we were doing manu tukutuku (kite making).

Our teacher Miss Hill's put us into groups of 2 and my buddy was David.  Before we made our kites we had to listen really carefully or we will all muck it up.  The first instruction was to measure our toitoi, and mine and David’s were 45 cm long each piece and we had to break them into 3 equal pieces.  I went  to the matariki celebration and at that Matariki celebration we had knucklebones, string games, kite making, kapa haka group, the reflection wall, Matariki pupus, koroos, and poi making.

  

At the Rangikura Matariki celebration there were lots of people and also people kept on coming threw the door like a never ending line.  When the kapa haka group started performing there was fruit, bread, and soup being handed out.  I had some soup and the soups flavour was… pumpkin soup is my favourite when i’m really cold.  

The Matariki celebration started at 6pm and finished at 8pm.  We did it at night because the stars only come out at night and so it is nice and dark.  If it wasn’t dark we couldn’t have the fairy lights going and it was like the best party I have ever been to but it is achilly a celebration.

Here are the materials we all used:

Toitoi

Pencil

Raupō

Wool

100cm ruler

Black paper

Pastils

Hot glue gun

Instructions:

Firstly get your toitoi and measure how long it is.

Secondly cut you toitoi were you put your line.

Thirdly lay the one with the fluffy bit of the toitoi, lay it straight and put the other 2 on top.

Fourthly measure 100 cm of string and wrap it randomly around the top then tie it at the back.

Filthy get the Raupō and split it so it is the right size for you and lay it on the top of the toitoi.

Once you have finished that get any coloured wool and rule 100 cm long again but do 3 pieces.

Next plat it until all your strips run out.

After all that get your black paper and draw a triangle at the top then cut the triangle out.

Then once you have your triangle done get a pencil and get a clear piece of white paper and practice a maori design and once you have found the pattern you want draw it on the black piece of paper.

After doing all that get your hot glue gun and stick your black paper on it.

Then put some glue on the back so it stays.

And there you have your own Manu tukutuku