Matariki and the Southern Lights art

What you need:

White and yellow paint

Black paper

Chalk pastel also know as soft pastels in light and dark blue, light and dark green and red.

An old toothbrush

An extra piece of plain A4 paper or card

A tooth pick or end of a small paint brush

What to do: 1. Hold your plain A4 paper landscape and rip a mountain like shape across it. This will be used to mask off the hills.

2. First mask off the bottom third of your black paper with the ripped hill pattern you just made.

3. Then dip your toothbrush into some of the white acrylic paint, then run your fingers through the bristles of the toothbrush to flick paint over your black piece of paper. This will create the background starts.

4. While the stars are drying, use your ripped card and colour the top ripped edge of it in with your different coloured pastels. Make sure you change the colour every few centimetres.

5. Check that the paint has dried before continuing with this next step. If it is dry place the chalked paper onto your black paper. Now run your finger through the chalk upwards towards the stars. This should smudge the coloured chalk from the plain paper onto your picture.

6. Mix a small amount of yellow and white together. Make sure you use more white than yellow, you want it to only have a tint of yellow in it.

7. Using your tooth pick or the end of a paint brush dot in the Matariki constellation.

https://www.kiwifamilies.co.nz/articles/matariki-southern-lights-art-project/