Making puppets

This afternoon the children were lucky enough to share their ideas about matariki and explore some new ideas with the staff from Te Ana Māori Rock Art Centre.

We began with looking at their amazing puppets and exploring our knowledge around different birds and then we were  excited to get creative as we began creating out own tiki puppets. We had to persevere as we coloured in the face and the stars (which were hands) and then we even got to stick the eyes onto our puppets. 

We showed fantastic manaakitanga/ care and respect as we listened to our visitors and then we confidently shared the knowledge we had. Some of the girls were excited to share the 'Maui catches the sun' story with our visitors and then they even sung the matariki stars song when they were asked if they knew the names of the stars!  Tu meke, fantastic.