Wearable Art

On Tuesday the 2nd of August we had an enviro schools work shop at school. The focus of this workshop was to get our Little Penguin houses up and running.

We are building the little penguin houses to try and boost the penguins population around the Mahia Peninsula.

As well as making penguin houses, we also had harakeke weaving (where tamariki made some beautiful jewellery), and wearable art creations.

Our wearable art creations were based on the four elements, wind, fire, earth and water. Tamariki brainstormed which element they would like their creation to represent and set about planning, with the materials they had on hand. Once they had planned their creation they began the creating process. It was awesome to see tamariki working well together in groups and exploring the many different ways they could recycle materials to represent the elements.

Thanks to all the whanau who got recyclable supplies to school for us to use, as well as all the whanau who helped out.