Week 8: Tahitian Inspired 3D Flowers

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We created these using a basic leaf outline as a template that ends up being a petal. We created Tahitian inspired designs on two petals. Then we photocopied them and coloured them using dye and sponges. Once they were dry we cut them out and used a glue gun to glue arrange them to create an 'ocean wave or Moana' effect.

ps Miss Fortes got this idea from some artwork she saw in another post and we loved it.

Fakakaloa Aotearoa 'aki 'a e faiva 'a e Tonga – Enriching Aotearoa with Tongan arts.

Last week we celebrated Tongan Language week.  We made our own Tapa cloth. 

1. We scrunched up plain A4 paper until it was soft.  
2. Then we used a sketching pencil to draw on our patterns (we only chose 2 patterns).  
3. When we were ready, we used a cotton bud to trace over our patterns with brown Indian ink.
4. To finish our Tapa, we used a cloth to wipe brown dye across them.