We learnt about White Sunday as part of our celebrations inquiry. It is a special celebration in Samoa held on the second Sunday in May and October. Children dress in white clothing and read a verse from the bible in church.
Something we noticed was that Tapa cloth was often worn as clothing, or was in the buildings, in the pictures and books we looked at. Miss Z got a big Tapa mat for us to touch and we looked at the patterns on it.
We watched some videos about how the special Tapa is made from the bark of a Paper Mulberry Tree. Tapa cloth is made into clothing for special occasions or given as a gift at births or weddings.
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| We are talking about the patterns on the Tapa Cloth. |
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| We are using vivid and crayons to design our Tapa art. |
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We had to screw our art up! We didn't think that was a good idea!
Then we painted dye over top of our art, it went into the cracks of the crayon. |
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| We made a frame on black paper with white crayon. We glued our art into a square. |
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| We put our names on....... |
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| Hooray! Our very own class Tapa Mat! We think it looks amazing! |
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