Take a journey into Te Ao Māori,
through Matariki and beyond.
Interested in bringing the magic of the stars into your learning space?
Let’s make that connection last all year round!
What’s in the Matariki + Maramataka Combo?
The Matariki Activity Book
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Engage Tamariki:
Choose from 68 pages of hands-on crafts, weaving, interactive games, waiata, and delicious recipes. -
Explore the Stars:
Includes night sky guides to help tamariki find Matariki in the dawn sky. -
Cultural Identity:
Features dedicated sections for learning and practicing pepeha.
INSTANT DOWNLOAD – PRINT WHAT YOU NEED, AS YOU NEED.
The Seasonal Maramataka
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Year-Round Learning:
The seasonal calendar keeps the momentum going so your learning continues all 365 days of the year. -
Natural Fluency:
Embed te reo Māori seamlessly into your household or classroom morning routines. -
Interactive Dials:
Built specifically for little hands to change daily, with illustrations making time visible and tangible.
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Bundle these together today for $40
(RRP $50)
Don’t let the learning stop when Matariki ends.
What you get today:
THE MATARIKI ACTIVITY BOOK –
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68 pages of hands-on activities:
Designed to engage tamariki as they learn about Matariki. -
Activities and crafts:
Crafts, recipes, waiata (songs), Pepeha templates, weaving, night sky viewing guide, traditional Māori games, colouring, posters and more! -
Instant digital download:
Print exactly what you need, when you need it. -
Create tradition:
Revisit the activities year after year as you celebrate Matariki.
THE SEASONAL MARAMATAKA –
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The Perpetual Seasonal Maramataka:
An interactive, hands-on tool for the classroom wall. -
Flashcards:
Te reo Māori printable flashcards for days, months, seasons, and dates. -
Sentence Builders:
Ready-to-use prompts to help children write and speak the daily date confidently. -
Māori Months + Pronunciation Guide:
Easy-to-follow printable resource with audio links to help kaiako and tamariki confidently pronounce and speak the daily date.
What Other Educators Are Saying:
“The Matariki book got them excited, but the Seasonal Wheel keeps them practicing te reo every single morning. It’s the perfect extension.”
– Early Childhood Kaiako
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Matariki + Maramataka combo for just $40
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and the calendar headed straight to your letterbox!
Why kaiako and homeschool parents love the Seasonal Maramataka:
The Paitu Seasonal Maramataka is an illustrated, perpetual circular calendar specifically designed for the Southern Hemisphere.
By physically rotating the moving wheels, tamariki visually observe how each Māori day, month, and season seamlessly flows into the next. It creates an ongoing, hands-on connection to the rhythms of nature.
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BILINGUAL LEARNING:
Strengthening te reo Māori every day through the months/moon cycles, and seasons.
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READY-TO-USE RESOURCE:
Every physical calendar includes free printable flashcards and guides to deepen your teaching immediately.
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INTERACTIVE AND TACTILE:
Turn-the-wheels to turn learning into an engaging, hands-on experience for morning mat time.
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REAL WORLD RELEVANCE:
Southern Hemisphere seasons flow visibly into the next, bringing understanding of the world outside the classroom and connecting to te taiao.
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USE SEASON AFTER SEASON:
Featuring a perpetual, circular design, for use year after year.
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Why teachers and whanau love the Matariki Activity Book:
The Paitu Matariki Activity Book is a hand sketched, printable digital kit packed with crafts, waiata, games, and recipes for kai to share.
This 68 page .pdf resource lands in your inbox the second you check out, giving you instant access to Matariki activity inspiration you can use year after year.
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USE EACH MATARIKI:
Printable resource, use what you need to create tradition or deepen learning year after year.
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HANDS ON CRAFTS:
Including printable Matariki lanterns, paper kites, remembrance wish paper, origami stars and weaving harakeke whetu (stars).
TRADITIONAL GAMES:
Keeps little hands busy with step-by-step guides for cultural games like making poi, whai (string games), and tī rākau (stick games).
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RECIPES:
Celebrates kai (food) with recipes for traditional paraoa parai (fry bread), rēwena bread, friendship soup, and star cookies.
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WAIATA:
Learn popular Māori children’s songs complete with lyrics, translations, and beginner guitar/ukulele chord sheets.
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NIGHT SKY GUIDES:
Illustrated maps to teach tamariki exactly how to spot the star cluster in the winter sky.
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CULTURAL CONNECTION:
Strengthens identity with templates for learning personal pepeha, and glossary of kupu (words).
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Keep the learning alive: Seamlessly transition from the Matariki activities into a daily visual learning ritual that lasts all year long.
Ready to weave the magic of Matariki into your daily rhythm all year?
$40
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What you’ll get when you buy today
- Instant access to the 68 page Matariki Activity Book – packed with crafts, games, pepeha, recipes, waiata, night sky guide and more!
- Ready-to-go Seasonal Maramataka couriered straight to your door
- Printable flashcards with days, months, seasons and dates
- Resource with te reo Māori months pronunciation guide + audio links
- Ideas to help bring te reo Māori into daily use
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Inspired by, and created by nature, Paitu make New Zealand art to connect us to the seasons and cycles of our natural world, and respectfully share treasures from the garden and forest.
Our offerings include seasonal calendars, resources for family rituals, mindful journals, body care, rongoā, harakeke weaving, seeds and edible plants.
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