OUR KAKAHU

Room 7 are making a kakahu. A kakahu is a cloak that has feathers from a bird.

First we had to design a kakahu and then we made the cloak . We also had to cut 218 feathers. It was alot of hard work to do. After we had made 218 feathers we put feathers on the cloak .

Then we had to learn how to make a plait out of wool. We had to practice before we did the plait that we were going to use. We got brown paper to stick on to the cloak. We did a type of pattern for the border and then we coloured the pattern that we had made. Then we stapled the plait to the brown paper and the kakahu was on.

We have put our kakahu on the wall. You can see them if you come and visit our classroom. We all have differnt types of patterns and colours. One kakahu is pink, black, red, purple and blue . Another kakahu is pink, purple, green, black and white.

Making our kakahu was a lot of hard work but we think they look great!