Get inspired
Ready to create your creature for the Wild World? Here are inspiring ideas to get your imagination going.
Young creators all over the UK are bringing the Wild World to life. Exploring museums, art galleries, and historical sites, they're discovering animals, birds, insects, and aquatic life that thrive right here in the British Isles
Did you know? The UK is home to 70,000 species of animals, plants, and fungi. Yet, one in ten species faces endangerment. Let's use creative action to celebrate and protect our vibrant biodiversity.
These wild inhabitants remind us of our delicate ecosystem's beauty and balance. Create a creature to join the chorus that safeguards our planet.
Check out the Creatures of the Day, and for more inspiration, explore our gallery of artworks by talented young artists.
Ready to dive in? Explore these by projects from museums and galleries nationwide for inspiration.
New Forest Heritage Centre
Inspired by the historical New Forest Embroidery, School pupils from The New Forest Small School and Bartley Junior School collaborated to create their own artwork that celebrates the wildlife of the New Forest during workshops run by artist Rachel Russell at the New Forest Heritage Centre.
The New Forest is home to an amazing plethora of wildlife. These incredible tapestries capture the abundance of wildlife in the New Forest and show us what we can create through working together. How many animals can you spot in this embroidery?
The Brickworks Museum
The Brickworks Museum ran a series of nature trails for people to discover how to create habitats for hedgehogs and help protect the local hedgehog population. The workshops resulted in the creation of these wonderful hedgehog homes and clay and stick hedgehogs, bringing together the history of the museum, the project, and the surrounding environment.
To help protect the local Wildlife, The Brickworks Museum has partnered up with conservation organisation Animex to transform a disused bridge into a wildlife corridor for animals to safely cross a nearby motorway. If you’re inspired by this project to help protect local wildlife in your area, then you could use your creativity to make hedgehog homes or become an advocate for wildlife corridors!
Crofton Beam Engines museum
Pupils from St Katherine’s Primary School created these fantastic poems at Crofton Beam Engines. They were inspired by the local wildlife around the old pumping station, focusing in particular on the majestic Red Kite. Red Kites were pushed close to extinction during the 1800s but thanks to a program to reintroduce Red Kites into the wild, numbers have steadily risen.
Can you write a poem about your creature as part of your creative action?
Pontypridd Museum
The project “The Pit Pony's Journey: From Pits to Paradise” at Pontypridd Museum focused on the history of pit ponies in coal mining in Wales during the industrial revolution. Primary school pupils imagined the life of the ponies in the coal pits, and then their lives in natural environments today, drawing the two habitats side by side.
Today pit ponies roam free as wild ponies as part of conservation grazing management to maintain and conserve species of wildflowers and grasses across the U.K. Is there a creature you’ve discovered with a fascinating history? How does that creature live within the ecosystem today?
Highland Folk Museum
Pupils from Newtonmore Primary School worked with artist Claire Macdonald at the Highland Folk Museum to make this film about red squirrels, grey squirrels, and pine martens. Find out how these animals are all connected in our ecosystem.
