Easter Gayaa! (Happy Easter!)
Djagalarr (chocolate)
This word was developed for Gararrngan Yuulngin-Ban.gan (The Very Hungry Caterpillar), following the sound system of Gamilaraay. This is the way “chocolate” (originally Aztec Xocolatl and then into Spanish, French, and then English, etc.) has been translated into many languages, e.g. Japanese chokorēto, Italian cioccolato, Hawaiian kokoleka, Indonesian cokelat.
To say “chocolate bilby” we add a suffix to mean “chocolate-having”:
Download a pdf version of this poster here:
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Eggs
Here is a template of Easter Eggs for colouring and counting activities, using Dawnie's beautiful picture of a gawu (egg). You may wish to print out an Easter basket to put them in (see link below).
Download a pdf of the egg colouring template here:
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Download a pdf of the eggs with numbers 1-10:
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eggs - gawu, giin.gii, gulay
There are different words for different kinds of egg in Gamilaraay!
Click here for an Easter basket to colour in from Winagaru Kids.
Easter Bilby - Bilba Easter-gu
bilby - bilba
The name 'bilby' probably came into English from the Yuwaalaraay word bilba.
Download a pdf file of the colouring-in page:
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Here are some other general Bilba Easter-gu resources/downloads:
- Save the Bilby Fund (hat, mask, etc) craft and education resources (hat, mask, etc)
- Easter Bilby paper plate craft from Lotta Magazine.
- Ancient bilby rock art picture.
- Easter Bilby crown from Brisbane-based illustrator Rebecca at Room to Wonder.
