This term our schools topic is matariki. In our class we have made pictures of star constellations with black paper, tin foil, chalk, string and PVA glue. We looked at pictures of different star constellations then we chose one to print off. If there were 10 main stars we would make 10 small balls of tin foil. On the black paper with chalk we drew little dots where the stars (tin foil) would go. In between the stars we ruled a straight line with the chalk. With the glue we stuck the tin foil stars to the dots on the black paper. If we wanted to we could put some glue over the chalk lines in between the stars and put string over them. we stapled them to a wall in the classroom. Below the star constellations the teacher stapled black paper to the wall.
With a craft knife we cut square shapes into a piece of cardboard, about thirty centimeters to fifty centimeters tall to make them look like windows. Some of the pieces of cardboard had points at the top of them some of them were; tall, short, wide or thin. Not right under but about eighty centimeters below the star constellations we stapled them along the bottom of the wall on top of the black paper.
Half of the class used pastels to make a sunset in between the cardboard and the constellations. We used brown, red, orange, yellow, pink, cream and white. At the bottom of the wall just above the cardboard buildings we smudged or blended brown and red. When the red and orange joined we drew a big orange circle, from the left and right side of the circle we drew a yellow "v" that goes toward constellations. We coloured in the orange circle orange, we also coloured inside the "v" yellow. Above the brown and red we coloured orange and yellow and smudged them together. Then above the orange and yellow there was some white, cream, pink, orange and yellow smeared together. Then above that we smeared together white, pink and cream. On the sides we blended in brown. Thats how we made our matariki.
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