2013

Tiki Art

Early in the year we made some tiki art. A tiki is a face that was used by the Maori to frighten enemy tribes. The Maori made the tongues poke out to make themselves look scarier.

 To start our tiki art we looked different types of tiki. We tried to draw our four favourite tiki designs and chose the best one. Then we drew our tiki on some paper. We traced over that on some more paper and used a vivid to outline it.

 Then we started our background. To do this we used a square piece of paper that was divided into sixteen triangles. Every second triangles we collaged it with magazine paper. We could have either hot colours or cold colours. We left the blank triangles white. Then we glued our tiki onto our backgrounds.

 Our teacher aide made some cardboard tongues. We thought of things that would describe us and we wrote it on our tongues. Then she stapled the tongues in the right place.  Now the tongues are 3D and poke out. That is how we made our tiki art.

By MK