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If you're looking for fun things to do this Easter, why not try making these colourful Easter baskets from recycled paper and fabric? They make great table decorations and are perfect for kids on an Easter egg hunt. For more things to do and places to go this Easter visit https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk

If you're looking for fun things to do with the kids this Easter, why not try making these pretty Easter eggs, colored with traditional natural dyes? Or for more things to do and places to go this Easter visit https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk

In this short animation, produced for primary school children by Green.TV, supported by the Wellcome Trust, we look at the remarkable evolution of the whale from a land-based dog-like animal to the marine mammal that became the world’s largest ever creature.

In the UK, 2/3 of Halloween pumpkins are thrown into the bin; that’s the equivalent of 18,000 tonnes of pumpkins, the weight of 1,500 double decker buses. The Oxford Pumpkin Festival, organised by HUBBUB, aims to highlight this in a series of events including distributing free pumpkin soup. What’s not to like.

Join Peter Pan, Wendy and tinkerbell as they start their journey to school.

We believe that every child has the right to walk, cycle or scoot to school. That's why we're campaigning for safer streets.

Support Sustrans' Campaign for Safer Streets at http://www.sustrans.org.uk/safetoschool

Join Alice and the Rabbit as they start their journey to school. But their adventure is hampered, enthusiasm curtailed and the school becomes a bore. We believe that every child has the right to walk, cycle or scoot to school. That's why we're campaigning for safer streets. Support Sustrans' Campaign for Safer Streets at http://www.sustrans.org.uk/safetoschool

Join Dorothy, Tin Man, Scarecrow and Lion as they start their journey to school. But their adventure is hampered, enthusiasm curtailed and the school run becomes a bore.

We believe that every child has the right to walk, cycle or scoot to school. That's why we're campaigning for safer streets.

Support Sustrans' Campaign for Safer Streets at www.sustrans.org.uk/safetoschool

What are you doing this afternoon? Perhaps you’ve decided to vacuum clean your life sized model of a Blue Whale. This lady at the American Museum of Natural History has.

The United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN), in collaboration and with financial support from the Public Health and Environment Department of WHO, have launched the photo contest Your FOOD, Your HEALTH, Your FUTURE! The initiative is aimed at young people aged 18 to 25 years affected by changes in their environment and wishing to voice their opinion on the links between climate change, nutrition and health.