Toitoi celebrates creativity. It gives our young writers and artists a real purpose and a wide audience and encourages them to be actively engaged in their own learning. The journal offers original and authentic exemplars created by New Zealand children in years 1-13, linking learning across the key subject areas of reading, writing and art.
Toitoi embraces a wide range of abilities and perspectives, motivating reluctant readers and writers and extending enthusiastic ones. It encourages students to strive for personal excellence and collaborate with their peers.
Although we are not publishing new content in 2025, you can still enjoy the stories, poems and art of 2800+ young writers and artists across 34 journals and three special issues along with accompanying teacher support materials.
Picture by Parker Knight, age 11
Access our archive of Teacher Support Materials to inspire your students to get creative in the classroom.
Toitoi 34 coming soon!
Access the archive for ideas for using Toitoi in the classroom.
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Access reading notes for Toitoi and share the journal with your young Kiwi creatives.
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Discover the Toitoi Special Issues celebrating Southeast Asia and Latin America.
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Discover more opportunities and resources for your young creatives to participate in the arts.
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The teacher support materials for Jillion 1 and Jillion 2 are available as free digital downloads.
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Check out the awesome bonus material for our Anzac Special Issue.
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In 2020, The New York Times asked artists to capture the view from their city windows during lockdown.
Inspired by this project, Toitoi invited some of New Zealand’s amazing young artists to create a response of their own. We have published the first few of these incredible pictures online in a series called From My Window.
Choose a text in Toitoi to share with your class or ask your students to read it independently using their own book.
Use the questions as a starting point for class discussion or independent research.
Guide your students to write their own response to the text.
Work with the text to inspire your students to create an artwork of their own.
Encourage your students to submit their work for publication and begin a conversation with other young New Zealanders through the arts.