Making Putiputi

Last week on Thursday made Harekeke flax to celebrate Maori language week and we made Putiputi (flowers). It was so much fun but we had to be careful because if touched something without washing our hands, the next person to touch that place would get sick and would get really itchy.

First we folded  the flax in half. Then we made a little hole with our finger nails and took off some extra parts of the flax and took it off. After that we took the part of flax on our left and folded under the piece on our right and then we did that step and did that step  with the piece of flax on the right hand side until there is no flax sticking out in front of our face.