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What an incredible fleet of rockets you launched into our inbox this month! Each design showed a different way to turn everyday scraps into something extraordinary. Some rockets looked ready for deep-space exploration, others carried alien crews, and a few were so beautifully decorated they could have flown straight into a sci-fi story. We loved every imaginative detail and were truly inspired by your creativity. Choosing our winners was no easy task – every entry had its own spark.
“Hello! I am rocket 13 Catmobile. I am setting off from Planet Earth to go to the moon to collect moon rocks to see if they are cheese. It is a very important mission. Because Planet Earth needs some help using up all of the stuff that goes in the bin, I am a recycled rocket made of a grape punnet, a toilet roll and some black paper packaging.”
"I found lots of recycled materials in my house. All they needed was cutting into shape and painting."
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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.
