This fun and simple activity will create a delicious treat to help attract birds to your garden! You can even venture out on a pine cone adventure hunt to collect your resources! What you need: String Peanut butter Birdseed Knife (with adult supervision) Step 1: Cut your string to the size need...
The greatest thing about autumn? All the beautiful colours! It's also a very exciting time to see lots of animals out and about making their winter preparations. For our ‘Underground Life’ issue, we encouraged you to go outside and get snapping with a camera. We’ve got to admit, our readers have a g...
Make a spooky surprise for trick or treaters this Halloween with our dirt and worm cupcakes. They are gooey, chocolatey, wiggly and scrummy! If you use plant-based milk, these are entirely vegan, too. What you need: 220g plain flour 160g sugar 30g cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon b...
First up, what’s the difference between WEATHER and CLIMATE? Weather is the everyday picture: rain, sun, wind, snow, hot or cold. Climate describes the weather conditions from a large region on a bigger scale. The climate is recorded in studies taken over 30 years or more. WHAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE? ...
For our ‘Evolution of Life’ issue, we asked you to stretch your imagination and visualise a future civilisation. We wanted you to design what a human would look like in a million years’ time. The results were startling! Look at how weird and wonderful we might turn out… Well done to our five winne...
These rock-like relics are sure to bring out your inner palaeontologist. Not only are they fun and tactile to make, but the outcome is really impressive! You can create whatever you like: a fossilised dinosaur, shell or plant! What you need: Modelling clay Plaster of Paris Toy dinosaur or chosen a...
In our ‘Rainforests’ issue, we asked you to pick up your pen and write a short story about our ‘Jazz in the Jungle’ collage of a colourful rainforest scene. Wow! Your creative words transported us to magical and wonderful places that we didn’t want to leave. Congratulations to our winners... Evie,...
Rainforests are extremely important to us because they produce almost one-fifth of the world’s oxygen supply, which we need to breathe. The Amazon rainforest is the richest place in plant species on Earth. Almost 400 billion trees belonging to 16,000 different species grow in the Amazon rainforest. ...
When we get hot, we want to cool off, and animals are no different. Even England can get very hot, and it’s not always easy for animals to find water. Building a little water feature is one of the best things you can do to help wildlife! What you need: A washing-up bowl or bucket. (If recycling an...
Our Communications Manager, Emma Oldham, shares her review on Neal Layton's new book. As a mother of 4, I’m in pure delight with this book! This is a book that will never leave our book stand. Sadly, Eco-anxiety weighs heavily on my heart and mind. I often find it challenging and sometimes ...