Matariki The Māori Year L1-Art & Craft-L2-Painting-L3-Tie Dye Flexible Use: Suitable for early

Flexible Use: Suitable for early childhood and school environments

Usage: Suitable for poster paint

supporting both fine motor development and imaginative exploration

Presented in a first-person narrative

Bulk Resource Sharing - Perfect for group activities and classroom caddies

Matariki The Māori Year L1-Art & Craft-L2-Painting-L3-Tie Dye Flexible Use: Suitable for earlyMatariki The Mori New Year is an introduction to the star group Matariki. Known in other cultures by names including the Pleiades and the Seven Sisters, Matariki featured strongly in pre European New Zealand. It marked the beginning of the Mori calendar, and its rising before the sun in late May or early June was greeted with great festivals. It was used as a guide to planting and harvesting, and was studied by tohunga as an omen which told whether