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Kids Zone

Competitions

Discover clouds and win £25

Watch our video to learn more about clouds, then enter our short quiz for your chance to win £25.

Cloud video and quiz

Take a picture of Plymouth wildlife

Enter our new photography competition and get your image displayed in an upcoming exhibition.

Wildlife Photo Competition

Survey themed fun and games

Weather and climate

Test your knowledge in our climate change quiz, try your hand at making a tornado in a glass, design your own weather picture and much more.

Climate change quiz - test your knowledge

OPAL Climate Centre - weather and climate activities

Hedges and biodiversity

Activity sheets

Biodiversity survey activity sheet (PDF, 143KB) - jokes and puzzles

Create a wood pile (PDF, 372KB) - attract wildlife to your garden

Activity sheets produced by National Geographic Kids magazine

Hedge scratchers (PDF, 7MB) - animal quiz and word search

Hedge hunting (PDF, 9MB) - spotters guide and word puzzle

Wordsearch - can you find all the invertebrate names?

Hedge wordsearch (PDF, 78KB)

More fun and games - from our biodiversity survey partners

HedgUcation - virtual farm walk, activity sheets and interactive games

PTES Kids - animal recipes, insect quiz and woodland discovery game

AES bug club - insect origami, build a giant bug and much more

Nature detectives - 150 autumn activity sheets

Water, ponds and lakes

Activity sheets - produced by National Geographic Kids magazine

Water wonders (PDF, 425KB) - wordsearch and facts

Pond puzzler (PDF, 425KB) - pond quiz

Water quiz - test your water knowledge with our true or false quiz

Water true or false quiz

Air, trees and lichens

Activity sheets

Bark art (PDF, 164KB) - use crayons to explore the patterns of different bark

Story stick (PDF, 600KB) - create a unique nature story with what you find

Natural colours (PDF, 432KB) - look for colours in nature

Tree age (PDF, 432KB) - find out how old your tree is

Activity sheets produced by National Geographic Kids magazine

Looking for lichens (PDF, 6.8MB) - wordsearch and facts

Wordsearch - can you you find the hidden air terms?

Air wordsearch (PDF, 1.5MB)

Lichen quiz - test your lichen knowledge with our true or false quiz

Lichen true or false quiz

More fun and games - learn to paint with lichens and much more

Lichen fun on the OPAL North East website (currently unavailable)

Soil and earthworms

Activity sheets

Painting with soil (PDF, 356KB) - learn how to paint with soil

Activity sheets produced by National Geographic Kids magazine

Earthworm activity sheet (PDF, 425KB) - make your own wormery

Soil activity sheet (PDF, 425KB) - make some garden compost

Play earthworm frenzy - catch the earthworms before the time runs out

Play earthworm frenzy

Soil and earthworm quiz - test your soil and earthworm knowledge with our true or false quiz

True or false quiz

More fun and games - create your own worm slime and learn to paint with soils

Soil and earthworm fun page on the OPAL North East website (currently unavailable)

More activities and games

Make an apple bird feeder

Use unwanted apples to help birds feed all year-round.

Make a bird feeder (PDF)

Make a bee hotel

Help the bee populations by making a simple bee hotel.

Learn how to make a bee hotel

Discover life in leaf litter

Create a Berlese funnel and discover the different types of bugs that live amongst the leaves.

Berlese funnel activity (PDF)

Create a pitfall bug trap

Make a simple pitfall trap to catch bugs - then try and identify them.

Create a pitfall trap (PDF)

Natural History Museum kids only

Play Nit fit, Dinosaur Defender and other exciting games on the Natural History Museum website.

Museum kids only

Join the Seed Agents Club

Discover the fun of growing your own food, win eco-prizes and share seasonal recipes.

Secret Seed Society

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