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For August's competition, we challenged you to build your own rocket, using materials that you can find at home. The results were space-tacular!
Ayla Parkin, age 9
Look at this gigantic rocket! Made from an old washing machine drum base, she will certainly spin to outer space!
Dallas Dhunay, age 7
The neatest recycled rocket we've ever seen. You'd never know this was made from trash! It also includes a super window for the astronauts to gaze down at Earth.
Gabriella Clarke, age 7
A lot of hard work has gone into these. Look how strong and sturdy they are! Well done Gabriella!
We love Alizee's imagination - we’ve never seen a dinosaur go to space before! She's done a clever job engineering recycled objects into different space crafts.
We hope you enjoy your Destination: Space book written by astrophysics professor Dr Christoph Englert and illustrated by Tom Clohosy Cole.
Astrid, age 8, with her alien spacecraft called Dangerous Dare!!
Harriet, age 10 with her shiny, sparkly and tall space rocket.
Rebecca, age 9, just look at that big jet engine and green thrusters! A very powerful rocket indeed.
Findlay, aged 7 with his brightly coloured rocket! Look at it soaring gracefully through the sky.
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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.
