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Keep Your Children/Students Actively Engaged in
​Outdoor & Edible Education with These Great Resources

Our experienced outdoor and culinary specialists love to inspire and promote a love of nature, food, and the environment. With your support we can continue to cultivate young minds and partner with local schools.  If you are able, please consider a small donation today.
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Enjoy this biodiversity lesson and hunt with Farmer Lauren!

PEAS Staff Videos & Mini-Explorations:
Inquiry forms that are mentioned in some videos are now closed, but the lessons are still great!

Explore Nature in Your Neighborhood/Yard

​Activities:
  • ​​Activities to Do with Kids at Home from Project Learning Tree
  • Finding Urban Nature from National Geographic
  • Backyard Tree Identification Guide  from Home Advisor

Gardening with Kids

Activities:
  • Easy Parent & Kid Gardening Activities from KidsGardening.org​​
  • Gardening with Children from Learn.Eartheasy.com 
  • Go-to Guide for Gardening with Children from Gardner's Path
Video:
  • PEAS' Video - How To Build an In-Ground Backyard Garden with Lauren

Cooking with Kids

Instructional Cooking Videos:​​
  • DIY Snacks for Kids from Rachel Talbott
  • Healthy and Easy Snack Ideas from Liezl Jayne Strydom​
Recipes for Eating:​
  • Making Ice Pops from National Geographic Kids
  • 15 Kid Friendly Recipes from Motherly
  • 20 Fun-filled Activities with Food from Forkly.com 
    • *Staff recommendation, "These are insane! i.e. rainbow grilled cheese, caterpillar fruit kabobs, grape sculptures - great for STEAM learning."  (Fun, but not extremely healthy.)
Recipes for Playing:
  • How to make Oobleck with former PEAS chef, Caralee
    • ​Chef Caralee reading Bartholomew and the Oobleck
  • 3 Ways to Make Playdough from Really Good Stuff Blog
  • 5 Ways to Make Safe Slime from The Empowered Educator
Additional resources from our partners:
  • City  of Austin - Urban Forestry Program
    • Bilingual Urban Forestry Coloring Book
    • Scientific Artist Activity Book
    • Habitat Investigation Activity Book
  • At Home Learning from Eco-Rise 
  • ​Texas Outdoor Family CampIN Video from Texas Parks and Wildlife
    • Follow TOF’s Facebook page for updates and live videos.
  • The National Wildlife Federation encourages you to safely go outside to learn! The following resources are currently available for indoor and outdoor learning:
    • Three months of free access to Ranger Rick digital magazines and activities
    • Eco-Schools USA sustainability activities that can be done from school or home
    • Weekly Monarch Heroes activities which students can do from a backyard/porch or on a neighborhood walk (
  • Common Threads: Cooking Videos, ​Small Bites Recipes ​, Gardening How Tos 
  • Keep Austin Beautiful is offering free, TEKS aligned virtual programming this summer called Generation Zero Waste, a youth education program in partnership with Austin Resource Recovery. The program engages K-12 students in fun, interactive activities which raise awareness about recycling, composting, and conservation while giving students simple solutions for reducing their waste.
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