New Zealand

painting pictures of things that they see

making things out of clay, or cardboard, paper, string etc.

sand saucers- ie fill a saucer with sand and decorate it with flowers.

Inventing bug catchers or germ catchers (my 6yr old grand-daughter did that last year)

Making flowers out of flax (harakeke). sewing pictures on cardboard with wool.

Kiwi fruits were originally called Chinese gooseberry'sand the New Zea landers had trouble selling them.Then some bright spark renamed them Kiwi fruit which led to their acceptance.

Pies, Fish 'n' chips, Pavlova, Marmite on toast, Kiwifruit, Huhu grubs, ANZAC biscuits, Roast lamb and roast veges,

Hokey Pokey ice-cream, Hangi food, Banana samwhiches, Venison, Paua, Bluff Oysters, Tamarillo, Avocado on toast, Kumara, Mussels, Pipis, Scallops, Crayfish

Drinks:

Lemon & Paeroa

Wine

No, women often perform some types of haka.

New Zealand and Australia have distinct currencies. Australia has the Australian Dollar and New Zealand has the New Zealand Dollar. They are not interchangeable or usable in both countries and they have differing values.

Wellington is famous for its windiness.

It is indeed, but it is not often called "the Windy City". Every time I've been there it has been called "Windy Wellington". For most people "the Windy City" is Chicago USA.

Lake Tasman, the only fresh water lake with icebergs.

There is not a majority in favour of changing the name of New Zealand.

Why would New Zealand change its name?

One reason given is:

It should have a name given by the first inhabitants, the Maori. One suggested name is Aotearoa. But this name possibly only refers to one of the main islands rather than the whole country.

NZ art reflects the things going on in New Zealands culture at that time..

Before the arrival of the Europeans (about 1870 in any numbers) the Maori had a highly developed culture in music, oral literature, painting and in particular, sculpture and carving in wood and natural stone. Their art was highly symbolic and meaningful. They did not merely represent an image, but also told a story. They have a deep empathy with the land and the sea, and their art is strongly based on natural imagery. Geneology is important.

Early Pakeha (New Zealand European) artists painted in a predominantly European style. The only difference between Pakeha art of the late 1800s and English art of the late 1800s is the setting and content; style is the same. This reflects how many New Zealanders at the time either were British, or viewed themselves as British citizens in another part of the world. Much of early Pakeha art was done in water colours by amateur artists as the civilization wasn't built up enough for professional artists to be able to make a living yet. At this time there were no art galleries. Water colours were more popular than oil paints due to the fact they could be taken into the bush/on a farm/up a mountain easily, and at this time most Pakeha lived in rustic rural settings.

One famous artist of the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries was C.F. Goldie, born in Auckland in 1870. Goldie is famous for his paintings of high status, normally elderly Maori, which were undertaken in part because of a belief that Maori were "dying out", and their traditions and culture should be recorded. His paintings are somewhat controversial, but continue to be popular, and show something of the effect that interactions between European and Maori cultures had on New Zealand art.

During the 1930s Pakeha culture went through a dramatic change that was reflected in art and literature. Pakeha began to identify as a unique culture; no longer simply as British people in a foreign land. They began to look at the land and view it in another way, seeing a freshness in New Zealand that was absent from industrialised Europe. This movement in art was called 'Regional Realism'. Artists tried to capture the 'fresh, crisp' light that they believed was unique to NZ. This resulted in artworks that had blocky colour and little tonal gradation. Rita Angus's 'Cass' is a good example of this cartoonesque style. Another common feature of this art movement was themes of isolation and loneliness that many rural Pakeha felt at this time. In William Sutton's 'Nor' Wester in the Cemetary' there are no people present, showing a feeling of rural isolation. The graves allude to the generations of previous settlers who lived on the land. In 'Cass' there is one solitary figure dwarfed by the vast landscape he is surrounded by. The incomplete traintracks nearby show that civilization hasn't reached out that far yet. Regional Realist artworks tend to completely ignore any sign of Maori inhabitation of NZ, focusing on the developing Pakeha culture and the relationship between the rural Pakeha community and the land. Toss Woolaston, Rita Angus and William Sutton are all famous Regionalists. The Regionalist movement centered around Canterbury (though Woolaston was from Wellington) which was fitting as it was a predominantly Pakeha region.

Also recently, Pacific culture, particularly Samoan. has become more prominent in the arts in New Zealand, reflecting the growing influence of Polynesian culture in NZ. Artists such as Loni Hutchinson make artworks that reflect the struggles and challenges of Pacific Islanders in NZ, and their growing sense of separate identity. This is similar to the changes undergone by Pakeha NZ in the Regional Realist phase. John Pule is another famous Pasifika artists who works with traditionally Polynesian style (ink on tapa cloth) to tell stories of immigration and religion. Micheal Tuffery created a cow made of corn beef cans (it's currently at Te Papa) that reflected the influence of foreign goods (corn beef) on Pacific Islands culture, and how many Polynesians now rely heavily on imported foreign goods.

The art of NZ is therefore a reflection of the changes that the culture of New Zealand; Maori, Pakeha and Pacific Islander, have gone through. It is entirely unique to New Zealand.

We sing the usual Christmas carols like Silent Night, O Come All Ye Faithful, O Little Town Of Bethlehem, For Unto Us A Child Is Born.

New Zealand does have its own Christmas song which is about the Pohutukawa tree which flowers at Christmas. The song is 'New Zealand's Christmas Tree' and it was originally sung by Daphne Walker.

Thanks Tamanui, that's true. And then we have our version of On The First day of Christmas- On the First Day of Christmas my true love gave to me ...a pukeko in a punga tree ..... and so on

and Te Harinui which starts "Not on a snowy night..."

More jobs available, Much better wages i make 70,000 dollars a year as a cleaner for a mining company and get 3 months off per year. More resources much bigger economy more stuff to do here more places to see. big variety of forest,rainforest,desert,beaches,snowy mountains in the south (yes there is snow in Australia) while new zealand only has temperate forest. New zealand is a freezing dreary place half the year with barely any sunlight while Australia has a balanced amount of sun and rain. Although the snakes and big ugly spiders are a bit of a put off. I do miss New zealand very much but generally Australia is more civilized and less criminal gangs like black power and mongrel mob. You don't have to worry about firearm violence here because semi automatic weapons are illegal here unlike new zealand where dangerous people can get hold of semi auto's and gun people down. Most cities are generally cleaner aswell. We are also safer from invasion due to a much larger, powerful , technologically advanced military and we actually have an airforce and navy unlike new zealand. New zealand is slightly more peaceful but generally Australia is a safe place to live. I am Australian yes but i have spent over half my life living in new zealand so i can make non-biased or prejudiced opinions like most australians would do.

The legal age to drink or purchase alcohol in NZ is 18.

new zealands wanted our country to be a free county but the turks wanted to over take newzealand so the had war.

No the people of Christchurch weren't just a saying that Maori didn't like Lyttelon because they thought there was small earthquakes there but that was legend

Officially 1840 with the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Maori and the British Crown.

The simple reason is: New Zealand is on a continental fault line. Earthquakes and volcanic activity are the result of movement between tectonic plates. These plates constantly move as underground stresses are released through the Earth's crust. The islands of New Zealand are situated over the boundary between the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. The Pacific "Ring of Fire" is the area where most of the world's seismic activity takes place. It is a ring encircling the Pacific Ocean in a roughly horseshoe shape, beginning at New Zealand, continuing up through the Philippines and Indonesia, through the edge of the eastern Asian countries, then down the western coast of the USA and South America. Australia, however, does not lie directly over any such fault lines. Occasional minor quakes and tremors occur from time to time (such as that which occurred in Meckering, Western Australia, in 1963). However, even Australia's largest and most devastating earthquake (Newcastle, 1989) is believed to have been triggered by 200 years of underground coal mining, not by seismic activity.

The Taupo Volcanic Zone is approximately 350 kilometres (217 mi) long by 50 kilometres (31 mi) wide. Mount Ruapehu marks its southwestern end, while the submarine Whakatane volcano (85 kilometres (53 mi) beyond White Island) is considered its northeastern limit.

Possibly you are thinking of the "kiwi fruit". This fruit did not actually originate from New Zealand, but came from a plant native to southern China. It was cultivated in New zealand and renamed the kiwifruit.

Bungy Jumping, hunting, fishing, surfing, skiing, horse riding, swimming, rafting, moving house, rock climbing, canoeing, caving, driving.........

they eat boiled eggs and milo or coffee.

About 1 in every 250 people suffer from anorexia or anorexia-like disorders.

A good souvenir from New Zealand I think would be a Pounamu (jade) pendant. These are about 50-100 for a nice one and are cool for girls or guys.

The Southern Cross is visible from anywhere in the southern hemisphere. Explorers from hundreds of years ago used the Southern Cross as a navigational guide when they travelled through the southern hemisphere. The Southern Cross is also visible in the northern hemisphere, south of latitude 30 degrees.

Auckland is the largest city in New Zealand, with close to one million people.