Welcome to the 12 Days of Science!

12 Days of Science

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Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to our festive science adventure!

This year The Week Junior Science+Nature has teamed up with Winchester Science Centre (and lots of other exciting brands) to offer young people a festive feast of science and nature-themed activities. Plus there are lots of fantastic prizes up for grabs every day.

The online event opens on 11 December 2021 and will last for 12 days (ending on 22 December 2021). Each day we release a fresh URL revealing a new activity. Keep an eye on our Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram accounts to see the links. Each competition lasts only a day, so you’ll need to get your entries in quickly.

Scroll down to see the activity and daily competition.


DAY 10 - Make a 3D pop-up Christmas card

Share this video with your child.

Engineers use incredible paper-folding skills to create designs for spacecraft, airbags, portable and medical devices. Embrace your inner engineer and build a sensational seasonal pop-up card to send to family or friends.


Young girl holding Science + Nature magazine

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Win a six-month subscription to The Week Junior Science+Nature

Every issue of The Week Junior Science+Nature is jam-packed with jaw-dropping stories, incredible pictures and cool experiments, designed to develop the thirst for knowledge in your child and spark a passion for discovery. It encourages reading for pleasure – even in the most hesitant readers.

To be in with a chance of winning one six-month subscription to The Week Junior Science+Nature, send your name and address to competitions@science-nature.co.uk by 23:59 on 20 December 2021. Make sure you put SCIENCE+NATURE DAY 10 in the subject line.

Go to sciencenature.theweekjunior.co.uk/12Daysterms for terms and conditions.