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For November's competition, we asked you to submit your favourite British animal - ONLY using natural items that you can find outside. Your entries were terrific! Lots of you went out and collected colourful leaves, spiky pine-cones and funny-shaped sticks to create some magical masterpieces!
Brendan, age 8, North Yorkshire: Owl
We love Brendan's owl! It's so impressive. Those strong, wide wings and big eyes make this owl a mighty predator! What super materials Brendan has collected. 
Ethan, age 9, Evesham: Badger, ferret and field mice
"I have made a badger head from a chunk of wood I found, a ferret in a late autumn coat out of a recycled kitchen roll tube, and we also used a teasel head and pampas grass. I also made two field mice out of teasel heads and some leaves for ears and pampas grass for a tail and I used googly eyes on the mice."
Ethan's natural creations are great. He truly has a good eye for weaving together lots of natural resources to create exciting animals! Well done.
Sebastian, age 9, Brighton
Each budding artist will receive a set of two great new games from Drumond Park (Word Bandit & Super Ski Jump).
Seb, age 7: Grass snake
Astrid, age 9, Oxfordshire: Owl
Rory, age 9, Twickenham: Stag
Edward, age 4, Lincoln: Reg the owl
Harriet, age 10, Macclesfield: Owl
Lily and Rosie, Aged 8 and 5, Kent, Hedgey the Hedgehog hibernating.
Rahma, age 8, Stockport: Red squirrel
Maryam, age 8, Australia: Hedgehog
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This competition asked you to design a secret egg hidden somewhere in nature, and your entries went far beyond the obvious nests and burrows. Eggs arrived disguised as pine cones, floating on leaf boats, perched on volcano ledges, tucked into cloud cover and even masquerading as chocolate Easter eggs to fool foxes. Thank you to every reader who took up the challenge and thought like a parent bird, fish, reptile or imaginary creature trying to keep their precious egg safe.
We were swept away by the response to this competition. Letters arrived from rivers across the world – the Thames, the Mississippi and many more unnamed waterways – each one brimming with personality, passion and a genuine love of the natural world. You gave your rivers voices that were worried, hop...
Somewhere beneath a grassy field right now, a tiny insect is building an underground loudspeaker. Male mole crickets engineer horn-shaped burrows that amplify their calls hundreds of metres into the night air – and your child can recreate the same science at home using nothing but cardboard and a phone. This hands-on experiment explores sound, shape and natural engineering in a way that is genuinely surprising. No screens, no special equipment, just a brilliant idea borrowed from nature.
Sebastian
December 30, 2018
I love Eco kids plant my favrt magseen. My favourite edition was the hedgehog one.