Summer Learning Journey - Celebrating Summer - Week 1 Day 3 - Tānerore

Welcome back to my Summer Learning Journey.  I am super excited about this activity.  There are two parts.

KICK START

We get to create our own kowhaiwhai pattern using the following template.  

Do you know who Tānerore is? He is the son of Tama-nui-te-ra, he looks like shimmering air as he performs a haka for his mother Hine-raumati.  

When the land is so hot the air shimmers, this is when Tānerore is performing his haka.

I had to create my own kowhaiwhai with a repeating pattern, then using some colours in the background that represented Tānerore/Summer.  Here is my creation.

I used the repeating pattern as a representation of the summer's breeze.  I chose the gradient colours of red, orange and yellow to represent a summers sunset. 

The second part of this activity is

STEP IT UP 

Using the following template I am going to create another kowhaiwhai, which is different to the first one.  

Here is my creation, using the above template.

For this kowhaiwhai I used the Koru and the blue in gradient to represent the ocean and waves crashing into each other. To represent the trees and land I used Kape and the green in the gradient.

Green trees and the ocean remind me of our Summer holidays at the beach in Mahia.

I really enjoyed creating both of these kowhaiwhai patterns.  Do you see how they represent Summer?

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