Online scrapbook app Storychest’s Children of Lockdown project will be stored on the British Library’s digital archive to teach others about the impact of the pandemic on children.
Children aged three to 17 are being asked to submit pictures, poems and stories reflecting on their time in lockdown.
Children’s authors Nicola J Rowley, Janey Jones and Rhys Brisenden will also pick winners for the most creative response in three age categories.
Charlotte McMillan, founder of Storychest, started the initiative as a family project with her three sons.
She said: “They have witnessed a fundamental moment in history, when everything that was predictable about our lives was suspended - the ability to come and go as we please, to see friends and family, to go to school.
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