The Santa’s Sleigh Challenge
The Santa’s Sleigh Challenge Santa’s sleigh has seen better days. He’d love a new, modern, sleeker model. As the head of Santa’s specialised design team, it’s your job to produce the drawings for his brand new super sleigh! All cutting-edge technology is at your disposal, so the sky really IS the limit (literally, in this […]
Taskmaster Education is coming to AQUILA magazine
Taskmaster Education is coming to AQUILA magazine Here at AQUILA HQ we’ve been holding on to some steaming hot news. ‘WHAT IS IT?’ I hear you scream, ‘WE CAN’T WAIT TO STUFF YOUR SIZZLING NEWS INTO OUR BRAINHOLES’. Well, never fear AQUILAnauts, because the wait is now over. We’ve partnered up with Taskmaster Education […]
Roll Up, Roll Up!
Our sensational Showstoppers issue was packed with fun – and there’s plenty more where that came from! An exciting array of Awesome Activities awaits our AQUILAnauts this month, let’s dive right in! Make a Theatrical Mask Beauty masks, surgical masks, masked singers on the telly, face cover masks, there’s masks everywhere! Theatrical masks have been […]
Ten theatre facts for kids
This month’s Showstoppers issue of AQUILA is all about treading the boards. Let’s get our show on the road, with some thoroughly thespian theatrical facts. 1. Teatro Olimpico The oldest surviving enclosed theatre is Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Italy. Designed by the eminent Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, the first performance here took place about 550 […]
Looking Book Competition
LOOKING BOOK COMP We had so many marvellous entries to our Looking Book competition that featured in the Time Travel issue (Jul/Aug 2022) of AQUILA. From trips to local galleries and days out at some iconic museums to some epic online galleries, as usual AQUILAnauts found a way to get involved! Here are our three […]
Indigo Bing Competition NOW CLOSED
COMPETITION NOW CLOSED Announcing: Indigo Bing and the Missing Mind Disc Our brain-boggling postal escape room At last! Amazing news for AQUILAnauts and soon-to-be AQUILAnauts everywhere. You probably thought we only make magazines, books and magazine-storage based stationery products – and for a long time, you’d have been correct. But all that has changed forever, because now […]
Spooky Fun!
The leaves are falling, the nights are drawing in, and Halloween and bonfire night is just around the corner. It’s time to get cosy with AQUILA’s Spooky Issue, and for those of you after an extra dose of October fun – we have you covered. Head to our Awesome Activities NOW! All Aboard the Ghost […]
Make a lava lamp
Have you ever wanted to make your very own Lava Lamp?! Well now you can, in just 4 steps! Let’s go… See what effects you can get with a few simple ingredients. Please check with an adult first before you raid the kitchen cupboards though! FUN LAVA FACTS The lava lamp was invented in 1963, […]
Nine Spooky Facts For Kids
Fancy spicing up your Halloween with some sensational spooky facts for kids? Why not frighten, delight and discombobulate your mates with these absolute belters! 1. Terrible Tussauds Madame Tussauds’ famous wax sculptures are definitely a bit creepy, so it might not surprise you to learn that their origins are too. Madame Anna Maria (Marie) Tussaud […]
How to Write a Creepy Ghost Story
Ghost stories have been around for thousands of years. The Assyrians wrote them down from around 3,000 BCE (that’s over 5,000 years ago) but spoken versions were probably much older. Shakespeare was a fan of a phantom or two, and featured them in at least six of his plays. How do you write a truly […]