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We were absolutely blown away by the creativity, care and imagination that poured into our 'Tusk Titans' issue's Magical Nature Potions competition! From glowing flower brews and shapeshifting elixirs to potions that whisper with trees or help save endangered animals, your ideas were bursting with wild wonder. We received a record-breaking number of entries from across the UK and beyond, and every single one made us proud to have such inspiring, nature-loving readers.
After reading this month's magazine my 9 year old son, Theo, was inspired to make this potion that allows a person to communicate with the lambs that surround our home. He calls it lambspeak, and it has spring flowers and a touch of sheep's wool in it.
My potion is called Fantastic Forest. It is inspired by the beauty of the newly planted forest in the fields outside our village. The forest looks like small branches sticking out of the ground right now but in the future there will be a lot of towering trees making shadows for small animals to live in. My potion is to make sure that all the trees grow peacefully and happily and make lots of homes for animals. Make sure you use a REAL four leaf clover for the magic to work.
My potion is called Animalentaria and it makes you able to transform into any animal and you can also speak that animal's language (but be careful when choosing a prey animal that you don't get eaten!)I thought it would be amazing to truly learn the secrets of the wild and finally understand animal behaviour.
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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.
