Canterbury Panels

For our Term 1 Art Attack we used our knowledge of the Canterbury region and our knowledge or kowhaiwhai and tukutuku patterns to create a crayon and dye art work representing Canterbury, our home.

Learning Intention 1

WALT: Make up our own symbols about our local area.

Success Criteria

We’ll know we’ve achieved this when…

We have drawn some symbols based on tukutuku and kowhaiwhai, which represent a feature of our local area.

We have reflected, rotated or transformed these symbols in our artwork.

Learning Intention 2

WALT: Explore contrasts between warm and cool colours and ways of achieving repetition and contrast with colour.

Success Criteria

We’ll know that we’ve achieved this when…

We can add colour to the spaces in our artwork, choosing colours that suit the subject and look effective. 


We had learnt that Canterbury is well known for the Southern Alps, its patchwork of paddocks, rivers that flow from mountains to the sea and the port hills that are in the Christchurch area. We also tried to use perspective to show distant features being smaller that closer ones. We hope you enjoy viewing our art works. Canterbury Panels on PhotoPeach