Reflection - Inquiry - Huriata: 'Whare Tapa Wha' using FOOD!!

Reflection

On a start of a new day we had Ms Fepuleai set us on our ‘Whare tapa wha’ house making with food. I was in a group of three with Paris and Ricky (And sorta with Lizzy and Mary-jane, Sharing items)

The items/food we used was:

• Tomatoes
• Cucumber
• Capsicum
• Celery
• Carrots
• Tooth picks
• Skewers

My design for the house was to make sure I had balance, support, and a way to form a house. With this in mind I had already had the idea to use the carrot stumps as a way for the framework to stand up, and the cucumbers to balance out the weight. A bad idea was notified by Azure, which was “The tomatoes were fragile and kept tearing apart” and he’s right. Though I still used them and used the carrots to stop the tomatoes from sliding down the sticks.

As you can see in the picture given, the celery is on the ground, because this symbolises a healthy environment, as it is green and good for you. The capsicum, cucumber and a celery in the middle was actually supposed to be a wall but I didn’t want to risk breaking the house. SO… it was placed in the middle by Ricky.

Problem & Solution

A problem I had was balancing the veggies on the skewers, because the weight kept shifting and the house would start to tumble. So we used a broccoli to balanced it off to the side. When we did balance it we took away the broccoli and TA-DA!!

Another problem was the celery, because I was expecting to get longer strips. But no. I had to try and make them proper sizes by snapping them in half and adding them to the smaller pieces to make them longer and match the rest.

Luckily we didn’t break any of the sticks, the carrots were difficult to puncture and I worried about breaking anything. So we drilled the sharp end of the skewer into the hard foods before sticking them on the structure.

I know there was a problem I could’ve solved and it involves carrots, where I could’ve stuck carrots on the framework to create walls to put kababs of the wanted veggies on the carrots going across.

 

In this picture we were trying to be extra careful (as you can see on the expression of ricky) I was testing the wall to make sure it didn’t tip over. Luckily it didn’t in the end but just for safety measures we stuck it in the middle.

Oh yea, here’s a picture of the group we were sharing with (Mary-Jane and Lizzy) and Paris in the corner trying to poke her eye with a skewer. They were doing really well with their ‘Whare tapa Wha’ and on the side you can see my group's work-in-progress with the veggies house.

Here’s where I was structuring the house with the skewers and toothpicks. On the side Ricky is having troubles with the smell of the vegetables and his little pile of tissues in front of him.

And when we finished the product Ricky hid between the lockers and I stuck a chair in front of him so he couldn’t get out from the small space. Paris, my partner in crime passed me my requested object. A BOCCOLI ! Rickys worst enemy! I threatened him with the green devil, with my foot keeping the chair in place. And then I slowly placed it on the chair, making balance so that if he knocked the chair over the broccoli can fall on his side. Instead I whacked it so the it fell on his foot.

Paris cleaned.

The end.