Siapo design

Talofa lava bloggers!

This week is Samoan language week and we have been looking and learning about the siapo (also known as a tapa) and how they are created. I have learnt how to make a siapo.

Did you know that the colours that they use for the siapo are all taken from the natural environment in Samoa. For example turmeric is used to make the colour yellow.

We then had a go at creating a siapo using google drawing. If you look carefully you might notice that some of my shapes have also been rotated. I had to resize some of the symbols and my patterns too. 

Rotated

resize/change/reduce

copy and paste