Waitangi Day Teaching Bundle | Treaty of Waitangi Activities for NZ Classrooms

Teach Waitangi Day with confidence, care and age-appropriate resources that help children understand the Treaty of Waitangi in a meaningful way.

This Waitangi Day Teaching Bundle brings together a full set of printable and digital activities for New Zealand classrooms, homeschoolers and Montessori 6–12 settings. With resources for both junior and senior students, this bundle helps you introduce Waitangi Day through stories, discussion, scavenger hunts, visual prompts, interactive notebook work and follow-up activities.

Waitangi Day is an important part of learning in Aotearoa New Zealand, but it can sometimes feel hard to find resources that are thoughtful, clear and suitable for different ages.

This Waitangi Day Bundle is designed to make your teaching easier. It gives you a range of ready-to-use activities so children can learn about the Treaty of Waitangi, why Waitangi Day matters, and how agreements, fairness and partnership can be discussed in a classroom-friendly way.

The bundle includes resources for Years 2–8, making it especially helpful for mixed-age classrooms, Montessori environments, homeschool groups and busy New Zealand teachers who want everything in one place.

What’s included in this bundle?

This bundle includes 127 pages of downloadable PDF resources, with a mix of printable activities, discussion prompts, scavenger hunts, a story book, a PowerPoint and an interactive flipbook.

Included resources

The Tree Hut Treaty: Follow Up Work
A gentle and practical way to introduce ideas around agreements, fairness and the Treaty of Waitangi. This resource includes lesson planning support, printables, articles, posters, character tasks, story sorting and an introduction to the Treaty of Waitangi.

Waitangi Day Junior Scavenger Hunt
Designed for Years 2–4, this activity gets children moving, reading and searching for answers around the classroom. Students read fact cards, record their answers, and can finish by creating their own fact sheet, picture or poster about Waitangi Day.

Waitangi Day Story Book
A short 7-page story book written for New Zealand Years 2–4. It explains the Treaty of Waitangi and Waitangi Day in language young children can understand, making it a helpful starting point before deeper discussion or follow-up work.

Waitangi Day Senior Scavenger Hunt
Created for Years 5–8, this scavenger hunt gives older students a more independent way to build background knowledge. Students read fact cards, find answers, and then extend their learning through a poster, fact sheet or visual response.

Waitangi Day PowerPoint and Flipbook
Includes a 20-page PowerPoint presentation, a blank template page so you can add your own local content, and an interactive notebook/flipbook for students to assemble and complete. Full teacher instructions are included.

Children will practise

• understanding key ideas about Waitangi Day
• learning about the Treaty of Waitangi
• reading for information
• answering comprehension questions
• discussing fairness, agreements and partnership
• using fact cards to locate information
• creating posters, pictures or fact sheets
• completing interactive notebook activities
• building vocabulary connected to Aotearoa New Zealand history

Perfect for

• New Zealand primary classrooms
• Montessori 6–12 classrooms
• Years 2–8
• homeschool learning in Aotearoa
• Waitangi Day lessons
• Treaty of Waitangi introductions
• social studies
• literacy centres
• mixed-age classrooms
• inquiry learning

Why this bundle is helpful

This bundle saves you from having to piece together lots of separate Waitangi Day activities. You can choose the story book for younger children, the junior scavenger hunt for early readers, the senior scavenger hunt for older students, the PowerPoint and flipbook for guided teaching, and the Tree Hut Treaty follow-up work for discussion and deeper thinking.

It is warm, practical and flexible, giving you enough material to support a full Waitangi Day unit or to choose just the activities that suit your class.

Created by a Montessori and state-trained teacher in Aotearoa New Zealand, this resource is designed to support thoughtful, age-appropriate learning about Waitangi Day.