RIC-20003 AC Health (Year 1) Be healthy safe and active
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Birthday celebrations in China<br />
<strong>Be</strong>ing <strong>healthy</strong>, <strong>safe</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>active</strong><br />
In China, to celebrate a child's birthday, very important people<br />
like family <strong>and</strong> friends may be invited to share a<br />
meal at the child's home. The birthday child may<br />
'slurp' long noodles. Everyone hopes that<br />
slurping long noodles will help the child live<br />
a long life. Family <strong>and</strong> friends who cannot<br />
come to the celebration sometimes eat<br />
long noodles wherever they are.<br />
Many Chinese children have a birthday cake.<br />
Indigenous Australian birthday celebrations<br />
Many Indigenous Australian children have birthdays<br />
like other children. Others celebrate in the 'old way'.<br />
They may have a 'birth' celebration. Just before or<br />
when a baby is born, it is given 'totems' by the mother<br />
<strong>and</strong> father. Totems join the child to animals or plants.<br />
Totems may be h<strong>and</strong>ed down from gr<strong>and</strong>parents,<br />
great gr<strong>and</strong>parents or great, great gr<strong>and</strong>parents.<br />
Each tribe or group may have different celebrations.<br />
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Birthday celebrations in Germany<br />
Lucky German children do not have to do<br />
homework or household chores on their birthday!<br />
Family <strong>and</strong> special friends gather together<br />
for the birthday celebration.<br />
Some families place special wooden wreaths<br />
on the birthday table. The wreath has small holes for c<strong>and</strong>les <strong>and</strong> a place<br />
for a tall, beautifully-decorated 'life c<strong>and</strong>le' in the middle. The life c<strong>and</strong>le is<br />
lit every year until a child turns 12 years of age.<br />
Other families give their child a birthday cake like other children.<br />
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