Parent Resources
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Hey parents, check out these fun outside activitie to keep your kids active!
- 50 Simple Outdoor Activities for Kids
- 11 Fun Ideas for Exploring Nature with Kids
- Grow Wild! A Guide to City Parks in Irving and State and National Parks in Texas
Here are a few other fun outdoor ideas:
Book Recommendations
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Outside Activity Books
I Love Dirt! 52 Outside Activities by Jennifer Ward
The Kids' Outdoor Adventure Book by Stacy Tornio and Ken Keffer
Roots, Shoots, Buckets, and Boots: Gardening together with Children by Sharon Lovejoy
Picture Books
Pond Circle by Betsy Franco
In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
Gotta Go! Gotta Go! by Sam Swope
What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins
Where in the Wild? by David M. Schwartz
Here is the Wetland by Wayne McLoughlin
A Different Pond by Bao Phi
Life in the Pond by Craig Hammersmith
Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story by Thomas E Yezerski
The Raft by Jim LaMarche
Pond by Jim LaMarche
If You Spent a Day with Thoreau at Walden Pond by Robert Burleigh
Chapter Books
Scat by Carl Hiaasen
Hoot by Carl Hiaasen
Chomp by Carl Hiaasen
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
Arlene the Rebel Queen by Carol Liu
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
Biographies
Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson by Wendell Minor
The Boy Who Drew Birds: The Story of John James Audubon by Jacquline Davies and Melissa Sweet
Things Natural, Wild, and Free by Marybeth Lorbiecki
Me...Jane by Patrick McDonnell
The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever by Joseph Hawkins and Jill McElmurry
I am Jane Goodall by Brad Meltzer