Reasons for celebrations
Across
- 1. These are usually lit during Chinese New year, and are red in colour with yellow embroidery to represent good luck.
- 3. At Aboriginal Australian initiation ceremonies, boys aged 11-13 are taught traditional songs, dances and the...
- 4. People usually give these colourful plants to their mother on Mother's Day, which is a day dedicated to spoiling mums with gifts and food.
- 6. When people gather to eat sausages on Australia Day
- 8. Hindus offer this yellow, peelable fruit is offered to Rama on Rama Navami, a celebration of Rama's birthday.
- 11. This cake, topped with candles, is the centerpiece of birthday partys, celebrating the anniversary of the day someone was born.
- 12. A spiced bun eaten during easter, with a cross on top to represent Christ's crucifixion and Christian faith
- 13. Pastry wrapped around a filling made from meat and flavourings, eaten on Chinese New Year
Down
- 1. A dessert made from chocolate covered sponge cake with jam in the middle, typically eaten on Australia Day
- 2. This drink must be blessed before being drunk at the special family meal on The Sabbath, when God was believed to have left one day of the week for rest when creating the world.
- 3. When people gather at the crack of dawn to remember the soldiers who fought in the world wars
- 5. A dessert made from baked meringue and topped with fruit eaten during Christmas.
- 7. What Muslum people do during Ramadan to make them more disciplined, and remind them what it is like to not have food.
- 9. Typically baked and eaten on Anzac day, made from oats and dessicated coconut
- 10. A bread made without a raising agent, eaten on the Passover, celebrating God freeing the Israelites from Egyptian slavery