by Jenni Hammonds

Our Meri Kirihimete card!

Ka rawe to all the tamariki who submitted artwork for VLN Primary Meri Kirihimete cards - ātaahua!

Congratulations! We had fantastic artworks emailed in and our leadership team each selected their top three. The winning design was a top pick for all our judges so a big congratulations to Isabella Comer from Te Rerenga School in the Coromandel for her design of Santa heading for a surf during raumati in Aotearoa! We loved the mahi you put into your artwork and all the details right down to the reindeer prints in the sand.

Isabella will be posted 25 printed cards featuring her artwork to send out to friends and family for Christmas and a $20 gift voucher for the Warehouse or PaperPlus.

The other students with artworks that made the top three picks from Rach, Lucie, Tewaiehu and Jen were...

Joshua at St Marks, Auckland

Joshua from St Marks with the photo of his carefully hand woven harakeke, paua and pōhutukawa inspired Aotearoa Christmas wreath.

Hineiti at Moawhango School, Rangitikei

Hineiti from Moawhango School with her colourful Ngā Kati Taramea Te Tau Ngā Mihi Te Kirihimete, taniwha Christmas tree and moa.

Reremoana at Moawhango School

Reremoana at Moawhango with her snowman and taniwha mask wishing us Ngā mihi o te wā kirihimete ki a koe. 

Beau at Te Rerenga School, Coromandel

Beau from Te Rerenga and his design of a kiwi delivering the Christmas sack of goodies - maybe on Christmas kiwi can fly, or is it a network of burrows that gets our prezzies delivered here in Aotearoa?  

Check out the other great entries we received in the gallery below - entries from around Aotearoa! Ngā mihi nui for your mahi and Meri Kirihimete!