The animals of the world need our help, please show that you care about the planet by making a puppet of an animal you love and emailing it aboard E-Day's online Ark via puppets@e-day.org.uk

These puppets were made by primary school children from the Five Islands School on the Isles of Scilly, the children of P1-7 at Fettercairn School, Aberdeenshire, the Nursery Children and the Student Environment Group from St Marys College Blackburn. Please click here if you cannot see the puppet slideshow above.

The E-Day Ark will remain open to new puppets for the next year. If you can, please consider hosting your own puppet-making E-Day.

Here's a message from author Henry Nicholls who made the puppet shown in the pictures above...

"In my book The Way of the Panda, I argue that there are two types of panda: the real and the virtual. We still know next-to nothing about the real, wild panda and the chances of seeing one are vanishingly small. The virtual panda, by contrast, is everywhere, usually a comical abstraction used to sell everything from fizzy drinks to electronic goods to cigarettes. No real pandas were harmed in the making of this photograph."

Please click on the following link if you would like buy a copy of The Way of the Panda.

1. Draw the body shape of an animal on a piece of card 2. Cut out the body and add glue 3. Lay the body on top of fabric 4. Cut around the body 5. Add eyes, legs and wings 6. Sellotape a stick to the back of the body 7. Hold your puppet out and move it around 8. Take a close-up photo of your puppet on plain background. Thanks to Mary Walker from Pandora's Daughter Puppet Theatre for this guide.

If you have time why not write a song, give your puppet a voice or make a video of your puppet in action? Please send in your puppet photo, poem, song or video via puppets@e-day.org.uk

View hundreds of photographs and videos of different animals using the BBC Wildlife Finder.

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E-Day is organised by Dr Matt Prescott (matt@e-day.org.uk)

Please contact Matt if you would like to support E-Day by sharing your ideas and skills or by hosting a puppet-making E-Day in your school, office, community group, church or family home.

You can find out about previous E-Day's by clicking on the links below:

The van Biervliet family, Steve Hyland (We Are Hold), Pete Griffiths (Idonix), Stuart Bowen (Bandicoot), Bryce and Maria Wilby (Five Islands School), The Green Team, Jon Plowman (BBC Comedy), Ben Kent, Lord May of Oxford (Oxford University), Jane Goodall, Mary Lewis, Tara Golshan, Adina Farmaner, Jasmina Marcheva and Claire Quarendon (Jane Goodall Institute UK), Ruth Brandt, Alice Doyle, Sarah Matthews, Zoe Broughton, Ed Gillespie, Bob Bloomfield (IYB), Guido and Olga, Geraldine and Pip, Mum, Dad.

Coming soon... "A Special Message from Jane Goodall", "The Puppet Odyssey" by Jon Plowman and Ben Kent, "The Sock Puppet Theatre" by Toad.