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In our July/August ‘Fantastic Fish’ issue, we asked our readers to create pebble paintings. We received many marvellous entries – from tiny stone decorations to large rock paintings to an aquarium of pebble fish! It was incredibly difficult to select only five winners. Thank you so much to everyone who took part in this competition.
Sophia, age 7, Cheam
An aquarium of pebble fish
Luke, age 8, Leigh
Common fangtooth fish pebble
Ayan, age 7, Surbiton
Colourful parrot fish
Amber, age 7, Peterborough
I love creating these paintings of fish on pebbles and stones
Maddox, age 7, Aldershot
The barreleye fish, talking with a clown fish
Alex and Leo, ages 9 and 7, Dunmurry
Alice, age 9, Cornwall
Eve, age 10, Swansea
Emily, age 10, Tullynessle
Florence, age 9, Devon
Sophia, age 9, Livingstone
Felicity, age 9, Tamworth
Isabel, age 9, North Berwick
Jayan, age 10, Ottery St. Mary
Keira, age 4, Hampshire
Lorna, age 9, Lee on Solent
Amelia, age 8, Tockhill
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