Reweti Arapere learnt that the art he wanted to make was the art that emerged when he looked at the world through his Māori eyes. His giant cardboard and felt-pen figures help him to tell the stories of his whakapapa and of Aotearoa.

This pack contains a range of response activities complete with activity explainer videos for exploring thinking skills and developing emotional understandings and compassionate inquiry including:

• Blooms Higher Order Thinking activities
• Book Club guide for deepening text discussion
• A range of activities to explore emotional understanding, compassionate inquiry, empathy development, vocabulary and developing skills for self and co-regulation.

Themes explored include: 3-D, ancestor, art, black, cardboard, creativity, felt pen, graffiti, hidden treasure, hip-hop, identity, kōwhaiwhai, kura huna, moko, pou kāri, Reweti Arapere, street art, stories, te ao Māori, Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ōtepou, Te Pō, te reo Māori, tūpuna, Rangimatua, visual art, whakapapa