Museum Visit

As part of our Taonga concept we went to the Whangarei Museum. We had a wonderful day, and were involved in a programme designed by Pippa. We learnt a lot about the history of museums, what a curator does, the taonga that our museum has, and we visited the Kiwi House.

Seascape Artwork

We read Tangaroa's Gift with Mrs Smith and discussed how the artist used intricate patterns to create the background, the colours she used and how she blended them to create a paua effect. We used korus as the main pattern which we dyed, and black vivid to create intricate patterns in the background.

Taonga Art

We created our own taonga design. We used crayon, and thought about using black shading to create a 3D effect. We were only allowed to use white, black and a cold colour. In the background we used warm colours.

Technology

We needed to design boxes for our prayer stones, we were not given a template we needed to create our own. Our design brief was that it must be able to hold our prayer stone and it must have a lid. It took some of us many attempts before we were successful. Each time we had to think about how we could modify our box so it fit the brief.