We have a big tapa cloth in our room. We read a legend from Niue about a lady who rode inside a whale to Tonga and she was well know for being a great tapa artist. The legend described the process of making tapa. William shared some videos of this process and Carolena bought along lots of information and pictures of tapa art from the Pacific. Tinaania made lots of connections between the fibre art forms she practices at home. We talked about crushing the fibres and wetting and drying them to soften them up and bind them to one another.
We made our own art inspired by the process. First we made patterns which we felt represented what we connected with in the story. Lots of people included whales and fish.
Then we had lots of fun, we scrunched our paper, some people jumped on their paper and broke the fibres until it was more like a fabric.
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