Check out an Adventure Backpack...
Then Get Outside and Explore!
Make it more than a walk in the woods. The Library has filled 20 new backpacks with all the tools you need to explore the great outdoors, or just a nearby city park.
No experience required—just check out a backpack of your choice with your library card. There are two kinds of backpacks that families with elementary-age children can enjoy for a three-week checkout:
Adventure Backpack: Nature Exploration

- Backpack Explorer: On the Nature Trail, book
- Binoculars
- Daniel Finds a Poem, book
- Dip Net
- Field Guides, 3
- Flow, Spin, Grow: Looking for Patterns in Nature, book
- Leave No Trace Ethics Card
- Let's Go Outside! book
- Magnifying Glass
- Port-O-Bug Container
Adventure Backpack: Birdwatching

- Backpack Explorer: Bird Watch, book
- Binoculars
- Bird Builds a Nest: A First Science Storybook, book
- How to Find a Bird, book
- Leave No Trace Ethics Card
- Missouri Birds Field Guide
- National Geographic Kids Look and Learn: Birds, book
The Adventure Backpacks were funded by Gregory S. Beard and the Republic Walmart, and developed by the staff of the Springfield-Greene County Library District.