A Haku is essentially a wearable bouquet for your head, or for the rim of your hat. Flowers and making lei are an important part of the Hawaiian culture and Elvrine Chow of Heavenly Hakus is one of the biggest advocates of spreading that aloha. Elvrine hosts a Haku-making class every second aloha Friday of the month at the Kauai Museum
, and is in charge of creating a flower buffet for you to pick from consisting of local petals, flowers, buds, leaves, and stems for your Haku lesson.
I say "lesson" loosely; don't think of it as somewhere you will bored listening to someone explain how to do something and get tested in the end. Think of it as a hands-on creative free flow of braiding, visualizing, and almost sewing stunning flowers into your own wearable masterpiece. Quick lesson: in Hawaiian, the plural of lei is lei – no added s, which I didn't know until I was in Elvrine's class! There is a "test" at the end of class, but promise, it's quite a fun one. Walk away from class with your proud masterpiece. I sure did!
