How Maui found his hook and the magic jawbone

 Kia ora

Have you heard the story of how Maui found his hook and the magic jawbone?

The storey  tells us  how Maui, the trirckster  creates a plan to find out who his father is and where his mother  secretly goes in the day. He watches his mum dive into a deep hole, he follows her in and uses his shapeshifting powers to disguise himself as a Kereru. Maui finds his mother sitting under a tree talking to a strange man.  Maui, the Kereru, flies to the top of the tree and starts throwing berries at them.  This frustrates the man, so he gets up and throws a stone at the Kereru which lands right on its chest causing it to plummate to the ground. Maui is transformed back into himself and he realises that the strange man with his mother is actually his father.

  

I have sketched out the Kereru that Maui the shape shifter transformed into. I used a mixture of coloured pencil and water colour paints which I think make the colours come to life. I have included the colours

Red, green, gray and blue to make the Kereru pop.

I enjoyed coloring in my drawing and reading the storey of how Maui found his hook and the magic jawbone. I found it challenging to find the right colours for my Kereru.

Click here to listen to how Maui found his hook and the magic jawbone.