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Thank you to all the budding poets who entered our Nature Riddle competition. We have lots of fun solving your enigmatic rhymes. Some were easy to guess, while others were, indeed, like nature’s greatest mysteries!
Congratulations to our five lucky winners!
Emilia, age 7, Dundee
Jean, age 10, Castle Douglas
Lauren, age 10, Sheffield
Phoebe, age 8, Gainford
Soumia, age 10, Sheffield
The five lucky winners won a super-fun riddle collection with over 300 brainteasing riddles creatively designed to not only get children laughing and exploring their goofy side, but also to promote functional problem solving. Playing and learning can go together!
Amy, age 10, Sheffield
Bowen,age 10, Southampton
Elizabeth,age 9, Winchester
Felix, age 6, Chesterfield
Francesca, age 10, Devon
Grace, age 9, Derbyshire
Iris, age 9, York
Isla, age 9, Corsham
Ismaeel, age 10, Leicester
Isobel, age 7, London
Jack, age 6, Bristol
Jessica, age 11, Kent
Joni, age 7, Suffolk
Julia, age 10, Oxford
Mehali & Praneet Karania, Hounslow
Mustafa, age 7, Sheffield
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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.
