Links full of outside activity ideas:

50 Simple Outdoor Activities for Kids

11 Fun Ideas for Exploring Nature with Kids

Let the Children Play: Play Outside!

10 Ideas to Get You and Your Child Exploring Outdoors

Grow Wild! A Guide to City Parks in Irving and State and National Parks in Texas

 Other fun outdoor Links:

Make an environmental difference in Texas

Be a Texas Outdoor Family

In 4th grade? Get a FREE PASS to any state park!

Books for your children (and you!) to read

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