Matariki mā Puanga colouring competition

🎨 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!

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]