Games and Activities for Māori Youth

The following information covers some traditional Maori games and activities.
These are the version we have learned and possibly adapted from Harko Browns book Nga Taonga Takaro and from training with Dr. Ihirangi Heke, both prominent leaders in the resurgence of Maori games.

There are various Iwi and hapu variations of playing the games and we are keen to learn and share your version of the games.

We will be loading pictures and videos to you tube so keep an eye out for some action packed footage soon.

NOTE the games info is still being checked by our experts so we will load those as tabs later

the following is a list of games we will have info on

If you have any information on traditional games or past times you would like to share we would like to hear from you

 All the games have a whakapapa, not all of which have been covered on the site yet.

All our rules can be addopted or addapted to suit your groups wants and needs.

We encourage the use of the tatu process for all games, this allows flexibility of games play, increasing partcipation. 

List of Māori Games and Activities