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Mini Enterprise

You’re Hired! – Create a mini enterprise! Have you ever watched the TV show, Dragon’s Den? In it, budding entrepreneurs pitch their business plans on

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Tulip Mania Money Bubble

Tulip Mania It’s easy to understand why people might get excited about some things: football, ‘Strictly’, ‘Dr Who’. But tulips? Surely no one could get

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Make A Vendor’s Tray

MAKE AN INVITING VENDOR’S TRAY This eye-catching vendor’s tray is a really fun way to test out your newfound money-making skills. It can be used

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Charles Fraser-Smith

Charles Fraser-Smith, gadget-designing genius Have you ever looked at your hairbrush and thought: ‘I could definitely turn that into a hiding place for a map

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Make A Secret Book Safe

MAKE A SECRET HOLLOW BOOK SAFE The main problem with living a life fraught with intrigue and mystery is that you’re always running out of

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Undercover Animals

UNDERCOVER ANIMALS If you’re on a secret mission a good disguise is important. The animal kingdom offers some of the best disguises out there. If

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Make an Art Sculpture

Make a sculpture worthy of the Turner Prize! POLLY’S MISSION To celebrate this year’s Turner Prize exhibition (not to mention our brand new ART SHOW

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History of Graffiti Art

The history of graffiti art On Tuesday 14 July 2020, the famous graffiti artist Banksy posted a video of his latest work on his Instagram

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Make A Screen print

Super-duper screen printing Screen printing is a process used by artists and printers. By the 1600s it was a highly-developed art in China and Japan,

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What is Pop Art?

WHAT IS POP ART? Artists take inspiration from lots of different places and art comes in all kinds of shapes, sizes and styles. In the

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Aquila magazine 30th Birthday

https://vimeo.com/847026372https://vimeo.com/847025047 30 YEARS OF AQUILA Unbelievably, AQUILA magazine is 30 years old this month!  We’ve made around 360 issues and covered almost every topic, from

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Make a Custom Jacket

Make a Custom Jacket Customising old and unwanted clothes can be a brilliant way to express your unique personality, save items from landfill AND spread

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UK Fossil Hunting Guide

UK Fossil hunting guide Fossils are the remains of creatures and plants that died long ago and became preserved as stone. Many fossils were formed

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Dinosaur Fossil CSI

DINOSAUR DETECTIVES We can’t really clone dinosaurs, let alone create hybrids by combining the scariest bits of the nastiest beasts. Modern technology can, however, provide

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Manga facts for kids

Manga facts for kids AQUILA’s May issue is all about Manga and frankly we are OBSESSED with discovering as much as we can about this

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Make an Origami Fox

Make an Origami Fox Stuck on a train? In a traffic jam, or just whiling away the hours hanging out at home? Just beg, borrow

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Bullet Trains

Bullet Trains Sometimes train travel is all about the journey. It’s a great opportunity to gaze out of a window and take in the scenery

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Beaver facts for kids

Brilliant Beaver Facts In the Ingenious Engineering issue of AQUILA Magazine we made a crafty camshaft-driven beaver automaton. But why did we choose a beaver?

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Engineering facts for kids

Ingenious Engineering facts for kids Engineers are driven by a need to make things work better. They use creativity, maths and science to invent, build

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