Matariki Stars

Today was the start of Matariki, the Maori New Year. We listened to the story of Matariki and then made some salt painted stars.

First we drew about the star stencil with chalk.

We squeezed PVA glue over our chalk lines and covered the glue with salt. We tipped off the salt that didn't stick,

 

In our Fine Motor session with Mrs Buchanan, we had been colouring and cutting stars. We added these to our picture.

Next we used water colour paints and salt to colour our stars. We had to use heaps of water and the salt sucked up the watery paint. We love watching it spread.

Our finished stars look amazing!