How Can You Help?

Milestone 3: Be on the Outdoor Kids Helper Team!

Pick your favorite trail and decide how you can help your neighborhood, town, school or park.

NATURE TRAIL

Help a friend reach a milestone.
Clean up a park, neighborhood or school playground.
Start 10 water-saving habits at your home and write them in your journal.
Plant a Texas Wildscape.
Plant a butterfly garden using native Texas plants for a nursing home or community center.
Help with a Master Naturalist project.
Create a web page about your community.
Build nesting boxes, bat boxes or bird feeders.
Improve a local fish habitat by clearing litter, adding structure, or managing the aquatic plants.
Volunteer to help a biologist with a research project.
Research and give a report on Texas wildlife.
Stencil storm drains with a conservation message about water pollution.
Become a Texas Nature Tracker.
Have an adult help you do a Project WILD activity with little kids.
Develop a trail guide for a nature trail.
Develop signs for plant identification on nature trails.
Help a wildlife manager remove exotic or other unwanted plants from a natural area.
Conduct demonstrations during park or nature center tours.
Clean-up nature trails and park picnic grounds.
Plant a native tree for your school or park.
Plant native wildflowers.
Make a nature video or slide show to share with someone.
Begin a recycling program at home, school, etc.
Help to create a teacher packet about a park or nature center.
Teach another person some of the interesting things you learned while reaching Milestone 2.
Volunteer at Texas Wildlife Expo.

HISTORY TRAIL

Research and make toys and games played in Texas years ago.
Give a report at a school or community library about a local park or historic site.
Start a Blazing New Trails reading club.
Help raise money for a special historic restoration project in your community.
Record your community and family history.
Help a park ranger or museum curator with a presentation by preparing, handing out, and cleaning up materials.
Help with Texas Archeology Awareness Month.
Volunteer to help at cultural events during Black History Month, Cinco de Mayo celebrations, etc..
Have a neighborhood parade celebrating everyone's ethnic background. Make costumes and have ethnic snacks!
Help with Texas History Day.
Put on a play in your neighborhood or library about a special event in your community's history.
Volunteer at an historic home or site.
Interview senior citizens about what it was like when they were young. Give your tapes to the local library or historical society.
Write an article for your school paper or newsletter about a local historical event, figure, or community legend.
Research your community's origin and create a cultural time line.
Volunteer to work at a "living history museum"
Help plan and built a float for a parade.
Create a display on folk medicines and folk remedies.
Have a book drive to build a library at a park, nature center, or historic site.
Create a time period flower, herb, or vegetable garden.
Make a video or slide show of a historic site. Share it with people who cannot visit the site.
Help to build ramps and other structures at historic sites for use by persons with disabilities.
Be the "eyes" for the visually challenged and take them on a tour of a historic site.

RECREATION TRAIL

Teach someone how to use binoculars and how to identify three wild birds.
Take a friend fishing.
Teach someone a fishing knot.
Start a fishing club.
Create an Outdoor Survival Kit for you and your family (explain its parts to a park ranger).
Teach someone how to be Safe and Smart Outdoors.
Set up and operate a fishing line recycling program.
Assist in a hunter, boater, or angler education class.
Make a sign about boating safety for a marina.
Create posters for Hunter or Boater Education with newspaper clippings of boating and hunting accidents and place them in public places.
Repair a hiking or biking trail.
Volunteer to check and clean or repair camping equipment at home or for your scout troop. Make sure it's ready for your next trip.
Design a flier for primitive campsite areas that includes tips on choosing a campsite, safety tips, and waste management tips.
Make a comedy video with your friends on "How not to setup a campsite" and show it to your scout troup.
Make up some catchy phrases like "Don't be a pain in the boat" or "Litter is unlAWFUL" and post them in camping and boating areas.
Teach someone how to clean and package fish and other game for proper storage or freezing.
Post signs to help advertise a boater or hunter education class.
Recycle spent cartridges at a local shooting range.
Help a game warden with an educational project.
Make a poster about the contribution sportsmen have made to conservation and post it in your school, community library, or local sporting goods store.
Volunteer to do data collection at sites during hunting season.
Make lunch for your family or friends the next time you go outdoors.
Volunteer to help at the hunting or fishing exhibits at the Texas Wildlife Expo

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