Make Your Own: Pine Cone Penguins

Make your own: pine cone penguins

by Emma Louise Oldham December 07, 2018

These cute little creations will make wonderful decorations for your Christmas tree. Or why not make them as a present for a friend? They are completely plastic-free and full of character! What you need: Pine cones One-inch wooden beads for the head (we up-cycled some orange ones from an old neck...

Protect the Penguins Poster: Competition winners

Protect the penguins poster: competition winners

by Eco Kids Planet December 03, 2018

In our ‘Penguins of the World’ issue, we asked you to design a ‘Protect the Penguins’ poster. What a fantastic job everyone did, including an entire class at St Paul’s Primary School in Chippenham! Thank you everyone who entered the competition. Congratulations to our chosen winners Arran and Thom...


Autumn Nature Craft Competition Winners

Autumn nature craft competition winners

by Eco Kids Planet November 14, 2018

For November's competition, we asked you to submit your favourite British animal - ONLY using natural items that you can find outside. Your entries were terrific! Lots of you went out and collected colourful leaves, spiky pine-cones and funny-shaped sticks to create some magical masterpieces! Cong...

Build Your Own: Recycled Hedgehog Home

Build your own: recycled hedgehog home

by Emma Louise Oldham November 08, 2018

Hedgehogs usually hibernate from October or November through to March or April, so now is the time to prepare them a cosy, safe home to spend the winter. If you’re building a hedgehog home in your garden, make sure you have a hole or gap in your fence or gate to allow your hedgehog to get in.  What...


Awesome Autumn Art: Bonfire Collage

Awesome autumn art: bonfire collage

by Eco Kids Planet November 04, 2018

Gather some leaves and twigs from the garden or a local park, and celebrate Bonfire Night by making this colourful bonfire collage. What you will need: Colourful leaves: red, yellow and orange Twigs Empty cereal box A piece of A4 card PVA glue Scissors Paintbrush (very handy to have these nearby) ...

Science Project: Eco-Friendly Halloween Slime

Science project: eco-friendly halloween slime

by Emma Louise Oldham October 31, 2018

The slime craze is well and truly here! However, a lot of parents feel uncomfortable about children making and using slime, because many ingredients, such as glue, borax, washing-up liquid and contact lens solution, are full of chemicals, and exposure through the skin can be dangerous and toxic. E...


Minibeast Fancy Dress Competition Winners

Minibeast fancy dress competition winners

by Eco Kids Planet October 17, 2018

For October issue's comic strip, Amelia the Fox and her minibeast friends got into disguises to attend a Halloween party. We challenged you to design a Halloween costume for your favourite minibeast! The entries were marvellous! You all sent in lots of animals dressed in fantastic disguises and camo...

Endangered Feature Creature: The Ladybird Spider

Endangered feature creature: the ladybird spider

by Eco Kids Planet October 08, 2018

Special, Spotty and Not Very Spooky! Spiders are supposed to be spooky and scary, right? Well, we think the little ladybird spider looks more cute than creepy. You’re very unlikely to spot this spotty species in the wild, though. In fact, no one had seen a ladybird spider in the UK for so long that...


Science Project: Sun Balloon Burst Experiment

Science project: sun balloon burst experiment

by Emma Louise Oldham September 12, 2018

This simple and fun activity is a fantastic hands-on activity to understand the difference between absorption and reflection.    What to do: Step 1: Blow up the white balloon but leave it untied at the end. Step 2: Insert the black balloon into the white balloon. This may be a little fiddly, s...

massive black hole in the middle of the galaxy NASA

Cosmic quicksand! the weird world of black holes…

by Eco Kids Planet September 05, 2018

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so strongly that not even light can escape from it. That’s why we can’t see them – though sometimes nearby gases and dust form a super-fast spinning disc around them, which we can see.


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