Open to all childcare settings and the children they care for, the competition also supported the charity Songbird Survival.
Resource prizes were provided by EYP Direct and each of the 1,300 children who entered received a set of Morton Michel’s colouring pencils with a handy pencil sharpener lid.
Mia, age seven, won in the five to seven-year-old category for her imaginative creation of a ‘shird’ – a cross between a bird and sheep – winning a magic drawing board for herself and an educational outdoor sign for her childminder Dawn Johnson.
Four-year-old Autumn from Stanton Road After School Club in Bebington won the under-fives category with a colourful collection of birds in the sky. Her prize was a tub of jumbo crayons and an owl babies story pack for her after-school club.
Finally, the winner of the eight- to-11 category is Erin from the 3.30 Fun Club in Burscough. She won a box of coloured fibre pens and an educational bird table for her setting.
The judges, Liz Roberts, editor of Nursery World, and Alex Meazzini, director of EYP Direct, praised the creativity and high standard of all the entries.
- Winners and shortlisted entries can be viewed here and on the Morton Michel Facebook page