Matariki panels

How do you celebrate Matariki? well I'll tell you how room 13 celebrates It, we made Matariki panels. Matariki is a cluster of stars also known as pleiades. It signals the Moari New year, It comes early may.

Our first step of making a Matariki panel was to draw our designs on a peace of paper, There were three slots ,the top is representing new growth,The middle one representing you and your family. And the last one is Matariki.

Second we painted our panels black and then taped it with masking tape. We then drew our designs on our panels. My top slot is a koru with little korus growing from it representing growth, My middle design is triangles which is me and my family.In the triangles are leafs and nature. Last but not leased my last slot.The seven stars which is representing the 7 sisters.

We then cut out our shapes and designs. After we cut them out we painted them, Mine turned out really bright, we then started ripping of the tape that acted as stencils.

Over all It really enjoyed it, but it was really hard ripping of the tape. I hope to do it again sometime.