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We were blown away by the amazing number of entries we received for the Design Your Own Antlers competition, published in our May ‘Oh Deer!’ issue. Your creativity and imagination were off the charts! This contest really let you unleash your wildest and wackiest ideas. Thank you all for joining in the fun and sharing your awesome creations with us.
Isabella, age 10, Byfleet
"This is my season deer for the design your own antlers May competition. All the seasons feature twice on his enormous head gear , so big it takes up 3 A4 pieces of paper ! He is the creator , the origins of all four seasons , and without him we would all live in a dry unchanging environment where even the sun doesn't shine. He lives everywhere at once so it would be impossible to describe his ever -changing habitat . I hope you like him."
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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.
