Devon & Cornwall Children's University

With Easter just around the corner, we are looking forward to the latest Easteroo creative craft competition! 🐣

The ootiboo Easteroo creative craft competition is an annual, family-friendly event that invites participants of all ages to unleash their creativity. Whether through drawing, painting, crafting, or baking, entrants create masterpieces inspired by themes like eggs, bunnies, flowers, and other springtime symbols. No artistic expertise is required - just imagination and enthusiasm! Participants from countries around the globe can submit their creations to be included in an online gallery, and be in with a chance to win a prize.

https://play.ootiboo.com/projects/easteroo-2025

Plenty of egg-citing prizes on offer, we can't wait to see all your efforts in the competition gallery!! 🐰

Hi everyone! MKC Heroes are hosting their Junior Field Gun and Military/Veteran family fun day again this year, taking place on the 7th June at Heles's School.

If you are a business owner who would be interested in hosting a stall at this event, please email [email protected] for further details.

Great to see our friends and colleagues across the University of Plymouth campus getting involved with inspiring the next generation of learners and creators!

The University’s work to inspire the next generation is coming to the small screen thanks to a new CBeebies show.

The University of Plymouth will feature in two episodes of Art Adventures with Fred & Pete – which follows the Cornish comedy characters as they take on creative challenges.

Plymouth was invited to take part in episodes on robotics and medicine, with filming taking place in its cutting-edge clinical skills facilities and recently opened Babbage Building.

Find out about this new CBeebies show and how the University is involved https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/university-to-feature-in-new-cbeebies-show

ootiBOO!
There are less than two weeks to go, but there's still plenty of time to take part in this year's ootiBOO! competition. Check out the entries in our gallery so far...
https://play.ootiboo.com/projects/ootiboo/gallery

We have already received 250 entries from the UK, Australia, Germany, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Indonesia and more. This year is our biggest prize haul with £400 worth of prizes for all ages. You can also earn a point towards becoming an ootiboo super creative!

A monster from the deep, a unbe-leaf-ably spooky nature monster, the cutest crochet monster we've ever seen, and a purple monster spreading positivity - it could only be ootiBOO!

Join in here to be in with a chance to win one of our great prizes: https://play.ootiboo.com/projects

How cool is this?! With the Autumn half term approaching, why not check out this amazing collaboration between our central Children's University team and the super Pawprint Family for some fun activities with great rewards in the form of badges!

This Autumn we’ve teamed up with Pawprint Family to try something a little new! Rather than give children just 5 different challenges to try over half term, Pawprint Family have created an awesome **FREE Autumn Challenge pack** which contains **40 different ideas** to explore this Autumn!

Not only can you still collect Children’s University stamp codes for taking part, but you can also buy a fantastic woven badge! We love working with Pawprint Family – if you search our activities you’ll find more than 380 different Pawprint Badges you can collect as part of your Children’s University journey. It’s fantastic for us to be adding to this with our very own badge!

https://pawprintfamily.com/product/childrens-university-autumn-challenge-woven/

ootiBOO! 👻 Hope we didn't scare you! We just wanted to announce the latest exciting competition from our good friends at ootiboo. They have said:

"For our monster-themed creative craft competition, draw, paint, make, or bake your monster entry and share with ootiboo and be in with a chance of winning a prize. This year we have £500 worth of prizes to give away for all ages! The competition will be judged by Children's book author Jennifer Killick."

Link - https://play.ootiboo.com/projects/ootiboo
(Launches September 16 - ends November 1) (any age)

Hope you have some spooky fun! 🧛‍♂️🧙‍♀️🧟‍♀️👽

Our Gold Graduations photos for 2024 are here, we hope you like them! :)

We had a great time at the 'Building Plymouth' workshop a few days ago with Looe Primary Academy! :)

Here is a sneak peak of our Gold Graduation Ceremony photos! We had a great time celebrating all of your amazing achievements, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

More photos to come soon!🎉

Picture-This 2024

Picture-This 2024 is a brand-new creative craft competition from ootiboo. It is a collaboration with author Holly Wadsworth-Hill who creates picture books - with no pictures! The idea is that your child reads or listens to the story, then goes back and draws the illustrations, becoming the illustrator of the book. This means every book is totally unique, and a wonderful record of your child's imagination.
We have short extracts from two of Holly's books to choose from, and you can have a go at both! There are book prizes to be won, and even if you are not successful, we will have a special Picture-This Books™ discount code for you, just for taking part.

Duration
Launch May 21st
Closing date July 15th (Midnight)

Prizes
Prize 1 – The winning individual entry of The Imagination Garden competition option will receive a Picture-This Books™ book bundle, including all five Picture-This Books™ titles published to date, and a pack of Love Writing Co. colouring pencils.

Prize 2 – The winning individual entry of Not Black and White competition option will receive a Picture-This Books™ book bundle, including all five Picture-This Books™ titles published to date, and a pack of Love Writing Co. colouring pencils.

The RRP of each book is £14.99.

Links
https://play.ootiboo.com/projects/picture-this-2024

ootiboo has just launched eCo: Connect!

The project builds links between schoolchildren and the environmental changemakers of today, to give them a voice and to inspire them to be the changemakers of tomorrow.

We are very lucky to have Marc Buckley as our first contributor. Mark wrote the Sustainable Development Goal Manifesto for the United Nations for 2030. Check out the project, Marc's question and our first answer from students of Brabourne Primary in Kent, England.

Schools from around the world are invited to take part in the project which will pose a new question each school term. Spread the word!

https://play.ootiboo.com/projects/eco-conn