Making Waka

 This term we have been learning about waka. We made two types of waka. 

The first waka we made was a waka haurua. We made them out of harakeke stalks, wire, popsicle sticks, and paper. First, we draw, decorate, and cut out our sail. We carefully hot glued the popsicle sticks to the harakeke then we attached the sail using wire and tape. Today we put them in the water to see if they would float and to race them. However, everyone got excited and started splashing them which wrecked the sails. Some of them survived and sailed with the wind. We had heaps of fun making and sailing our waka. Next time, we will be careful and not splash them so they all sail better. 

The second waka was made out of clay. We rolled our clay into a log shape. Then, we carved out the center of our log to make the waka shape. Using the leftover clay we made the tauihu and taurapa. We then attached them all together and smoothed them out. Finally, we carved designs into our waka. We found that task tricky but fun. We are impressed with how they turned out.

We hope you like our waka too.