Wairua Mountain

We had such a fun time at our Steiner Day yesterday..
"drip drip drop little April shower.."
Aidan and J10 spent pretty much all day just whittling and sandpapering.. until the willow wood was a soft as a baby's.. er, cheek..

Our fabulous Caroline shows S8 how to make papier mache hedgehogs, sticking paper over pinecones.

lots of concentration as the lovely Louise helped to scrape willow sticks, which were then decorated with duck feathers, nails and leather (last weekend was the opening of duck shooting season, so the feathers needed to be plucked out of the ducks!!)...

the finished "talking stick"...

.. with which Peter taught us some maori stick games and waiata.