Make a critter

Make a lego NZ critter competition!

Send a photo of your original entry to jesse@rnz.co.nz by Friday midday

Nathan's (Age 8) Rainbow Kiwi

Ezra's Wētā

Fletcher's (Age 7) Māui dolphin

Toby's (Age 8) Pīwakawaka

Tiago's (age 9) Katipo Spider

Allegra's (Age 8) Bat Winged Fly

Fletcher's (Age 7) Ruru

Toby (Age 8) with his Pīwakawaka

Amber's (Age 7) Kiwi

Callum's (Age 9) Takahē

Liam (Age 11) with his Kārearea

Hinemaia's (Age 9) Tuatara - "His name is Mr Turu, he’s 99 years old, and is sheltering from Covid in the rock garden at our house."

Amelia with her Kiwi and Llama!

Oscar's (aged 9 years) Walrus

Oscar's (age 9) Walrus

Tristan’s (age 11) Brown Kiwi

Naomi's (Age 7) Little Kiwi

Bex's Takahē

Naomi with her Little Kiwi

Silas' Kārearea

Callum's (Age 9) Kiwi

Timothy's (Age 8) Kea and hatching Kea

Harry's (Age 12) Little Blue Penguin

Zarni's (age 6) Pīwakawaka

Jessica's (age 5) two kiwis and a worm

Archie's (age 8) Kea and Bee

Issac's (Age 6) Kiwi

Blake's (Age 6) Pīwakawaka

Fletcher's (Age 7) Kāki

Zoe's (Age 10) Little Blue Penguin

Albie's (Age 7) Kakapo

Robbie's (Age 9) NZ Native Snail House

Lukas' (Age 8) Little Blue Penguin

Lukas with his Penguin!

Madeleine's (Age 8) native bee

Molly's Brown Kiwi

Neko's (Age 8) Kererū chick

Mathias' (age 8) Gecko

Anya's (Age 7) Orca

Mathias's Little Blue Penguin

Issac's (Age 6) Kaka

Olivia's (Age 7) Short Fin Eel

Olivia's (Age 7) Albatross

Andrew's (Age 6) Long Fin Eel

Andrew's (Age 6) Brown Kiwi

Karina's (Age 40) Robust Grasshopper

Andrew's (Age 6) Tuatara

James' (Ages 6) Kārearea

Arthur's (Age 6) Pukeko

Alice's Pete the proud Palmy Pukeko

An 11 year old's family of Tuatara

Eva (Age 5) and her dad Liam's (Age not specifiied) Takahe

Frankie's (Age 8) Kea

Forest and Bird's Kiwi Conservation Club's Short Tailed Bat

George's (Age 12) Little Blue Penguin

Donovan's (Age 8) Haast Eagle

Jessica's (Age 11) Takahe

Finn's (Age 6) Tuatara

Andrew's (Age 6) Yellow Eyed Penguin

Victoria's Yellow Eyed Penguin

Sebastian's (Age 10) Pied Cormorant

Sebastian's (Age 10) Pied Cormorant 2

Lincoln's (Age8) Piwakawaka.JPG

Jasper's (Age 6) Bush Giant Dragonfly

Stanley's (Age 6) Tui

Hana (Age 10) and Samuel's (Age 6 ) Kōkako

Zoe's (Age 13) marine scene

Sue's Leopard Seal.JPG

Alex's (Age 12) Tui

Alex's (Age 12) Kiwi

James' (Age 10) 4 Giant snals a Kiwi and a Moa

Mia and Nico's Turtle

Mia and Nico's Ladybird

Mia and Nico's Kakariki

Mia and Nico's Chicken

Lucy's (Age 10) Pukeko

Harry's (Age 7) Pīwakawaka

Amy's Ruru

Andrew's (Age 6) Yellow Eyed Penguin

Andrew's (Age 6) Long Fin Eel

Olivia's (Age 7) Albatross

Andrew's (Age 6) Tuatara

Andrew's (Age 6) Brown Kiwi

Victoria's Yellow Eyed Penguin

Finn's (Age 6) Tuatara

An anonymous Kiwi

Kade's Crocodile

Alastair's flea next to Mika the Papillon

Harry's (Age 7) Kererū

Harry's (Age 7) Coastal Copper Butterly.jpeg

Tegan's Weta

Ashley's (Age 8) Kiwi

Beau's (Age 9) Tuatara

A tuna (Longfin eel) made by Maddie age 10. Inspired by the eel we saw in the Liffey Stream yesterday on our daily lockdown walk around Lincoln.

Tom's Bat

Kush's Piwakawaka

Emma's Stingray

Justine (Emma and Tom's Mum) Katipo Spider

Claudia's (Age 6) Ruru

Elizabeth's baby Kiwi

Flynn's Karearea

Sam's Kereru

Moss' Kiwi chick

Jackson's (Age 8) Moa

Leah's (Age 8) Piwakawaka

Nathan's (Age 12) Piwakawaka

Nina's (Age 8) Brown Kiwi

Riley's Takahe

Stan's (Age 8) Tuatara

Toby and Sebastian's Kiwi

Fletcher's Albatross

Evie's (Age 7) Parrot

Isabella's (Age 8) Turtle

Ethan's Weta and Cicada

George's Dragonfly

Jack's (Age 5) Kea

Jensen's Albatross and chick

Josh's (Age 9) False Killer Whale

Monty's Moa

Kim's Rifleman

Elly's (Age 8) Bee drinking nectar!

Anthony's (Age 5) Baby Kakapo and Huhu Grub

Anthony's (Age 5) Huhu Grub

Hamish's lego skink

Isla's (Age 8) Weta

Isla's (Age 8) Humpback Whale Tail

Isla's (Age 8) Powelliphanta

Rory's (Age 9) Dunkleosteus

Rory's (Age 9) Dunkleosteus with model for reference!

Isla (Age 6) and Jamie's (Age 2) Kea

Archie's (Age 8) Avondale Spider Weta and earth worm.

Oskar's (Age 10) NZ Jumping Spider

Lowie's (12) Marlins frolicking in the surf

Ruby (Age 12) I have chosen my critter to be a black bird they are pretty and I find they are a little bit forgotten in life for they are very common as well as sea gulls black birds are very beautiful and make a very ni.jpeg

Sailor's (Age 11) mother fantail "hunting bugs to feed her 16 chick's which is the average number of eggs for fantails."

Skye's (Age 11) orca and Little Blue Penguin

Em's (age 10) Powelliphanta.JPG

Maddix's Toucan

Harry and Xander's (Ages 12 and 8)Tuatara

Marceline's (Age 6) Turtle

Daniel's (Age 5 ) Gecko

Daniel's (Age 5) Kea.jpeg

Tate's Canterbury grasshopper

Daniel's (Age 5) Karearea

Tegan's North Island Brown Kiwi hatching

Huia's Albatross

Marguerite's exotic bird

Andrew's Ladybird

lego Ngaio Weevil from Stephens Island. It was the last critter before Christmas 2019. Lego by Tulip (Age 8) Ngaio habitat advice on body shape and leaf browse marking by Mark (Age 48)

Kelly's Weta

Connor's Pukeko

Max's Tomtit

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Quentin's (Age 49) Tuatara - "Whilst my 8 year old son, Toby, offered advice I can not in good conscience credit him with it :-)"

Charlie's Tui

Mateo's Kererū

Callums ecosystem including a fish crab and a flax snail

Ashton's digitally designed LEGO Tui

Ada's Korora

Freda's Tuna

Florian's Pukeko

Lilian's Canterbury Mudfish

'Lindsay the Lizard' by Benjamin (age 8) and Vivienne (age 5)

Stalena's Takahe

Clement's Tui

Tuna - Long Fin Eel - in a river by Archie Aged 6

Isla's Cheeky Kea

Alex's Tui

Rico's Albatross

Seb's Little Blue Penguin

WETA by Georgia Sophia and Phoebe

Danielle's Tuatara family scene

Ophelia's Moa

Elsie's Chatham Island Black Robin.JPG

Daniel's Piwakawaka

Charlie's Pigeon

Leo's Orca

Rose's Kunekune

Sammy's Red Billed Gull

Millipede - Hugo

Anna's Giant Carniverous Snail

Maroro flying fish - Reuben

Pierre's (5) Pukeko

Daniel's Kahu (Swamp Harrier)

Moss' Loggergead Turtle

Amnelia's Frog

Lucy's (Age 4) Rainbow

Logan's Kea

Tereora's (10years) Tui

Toby's Whitetail Spider.png

Tilly and her Tui

Ashton's Gecko

Katipō spider by Ruby (aged 10)

Rowi Kiwi by Olive (7)

Jack and Stanley's Green Gecko

Digby's Clouded Leopard

Alex's (9) Ladybug

Elanor's (5) Korora

Megadromus Antarcticus by Bob (12) and Polly (9)

Trevor's (Age 10) Spider

Mana's bat

Trevor and his Spider

Matilda and her Fantail

Theo’s (6 yr) snail

Jane's Antlion

Thomas (8yrs) Chameleon

Cayden's Little Blue Penguin

Tereora`s (10yrs) kiwi

Liam's South Island Tomtit

Daniel's Longfin Eel

Penny (9) and Flynn's (6) Kiwis in the Bush

Moss' Tuatara

Alistair's (Age 12) Camels

Kirsty's (Age 10) Lion

Paddy's (Age 6) Gecko

Olly (13) and Poppy (7) Wilkinson's lego critter. They made a Ghost Moth - heloxycanus patricki. Olly says they chose the ghost moth because they had a lot of white blocks.