Maori Cultural Day

We had a great day last Thursday. Staff from the museum came and worked with us to explore aspects of Maori culture. Our day started of with a Powhiri to welcome our visitors.

We spent the rest of the day doing lots of different cultural activities. We sang, danced, listened to stories, helped make a korowai mural (cloak shaped art work), played string games, stick games and learned all about some old maori musical instruments.

Amber talks to us about Korowai, and the traditional cloak shape.

She shows us how to use crayons and the rubbing technique to create maori patterns.

Momo and Cory use their template to create their rubbing art.

Cornelia, Mia and Ivy hard at work.

Cornelia shares her koru pattern.

Millie shares her mahi (work).

Tino pai to mahi Te Atawhai.

Rori concentrates to complete his pattern

Ahi begins his pattern.

Oska watches to see what to do next.

Aaron talks about the museum's collection of musical instruments. He played many of them for us.

We got to make our own Porotiti instruments. 

We asked lots of questions.

We were fascinated as we listened to the sounds the instruments made.

There were reeds, bamboo and shell instruments.

This one was really loud!

Aaron shows us the Porotiti. He showed us how to make it work. Then we got to make our own.