🎨 Are you creative? Artistic? Maybe just a little bit bored?
Why not join our Matariki mā Puanga Colouring Competition and be in to win an awesome prize pack!
🌟 The prize pack includes:
- NZSL Week goodies
- Let’s Talk: 25 Signs booklets
- NZSL posters & merch
- A beautiful trilingual book!
🖍️ Get your tamariki involved—or join in yourself! It’s fun for all ages.
✨ Celebrate Matariki mā Puanga with colour, creativity, and community!
⭐ OPEN NOW, ENDS 6TH JULY 2025 ⭐
How to enter?:
- Do your absolute best to be creative 🎨
- Take a photo, post it online on Facebook or Instagram, tag us at @deafaotearoa, AND email us at nzsl@deaf.org.nz 📧
- Send us an email with your coloured in Matariki mā Puangā sheet, please tell us one of the following:
- 🌟 Which Matariki star you feel most connected to and why?
- 🧠 One new thing you learned about Matariki or Puanga
- 🤟 What the NZSL sign for Matariki means to you?
- 💭 A wish or goal you have for the new year, you can send this to Hiwa-i-te-rangi!
- 🧡 How you or your whānau celebrate Matariki
📨 Example Email Template (for participants)
Subject: Matariki Colouring Competition Entry
Kia ora,
Please find attached my coloured-in Matariki sheet!
Here’s what I’d like to share:
I feel most connected to Tupuānuku, because I love growing food in the garden with my nan.
Ngā mihi,
[Your Name]
