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Tamariki Time: Slow Burn – Ahi Tāmau

Join us for some creative fun and make your own nature picture frame with our native plants that we grow in Bush City!

When | Āhea

Fri 24 Apr 2026, 10am to 12pm

Where | Ki hea

The Wedge, Level 4

Cost | Te utu

Accessibility

There is accessibility lifts for wheelchair access to the level 4 lifts to the Wedge location for the programme

Bring your tamariki along to explore and discover simple art practice by decorating cardboard picture frames with fauna from our native bush, and other recycled materials.

This activity connects tamariki to our current Slow Burn | Ahi Tāmau exhibition in Toi Art, which includes some photographs of native plant species of Aotearoa.

Tamariki can view works in the exhibition such as The Mother, Rue (Ruta sp.) by Anne Shelton, which features a kawakawa plant arrangement inspired by the ancient techniques of Ikibana (Japanese floral arrangement).

Whānau Day with DOC, 2020. Photo by Abbie Dorrington. Te Papa (162336)

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