It’s easy…. Complete one activity from each section below: Clean, Beautify, Educate to receive your “I Keep Austin Beautiful” patch. To download Patch Pals guidelines click here.  

Keep Austin Beautiful provides: Patch Pals Activity Booklets, Patch Pals Activity Kits, cleanup kits, recycling bins, and tools to help you become a Patch Pal.

Please note that due to the high interest in promoting Earth Day activities during the month of April ...ALL ACTIVITY KITS HAVE BEEN RESERVED and ARE UNAVAILABLE DURING APRIL.

Laurel Mountain 5th grade teacher has this great thing to say about Patch Pals, "We are working hard to expand our ecology club and activities. Earning this badge fits in perfectly and is such a motivation for the kids."
CLEAN                                                                                                                 

• Participate in a KAB cleanup (Clean Sweep, Lake Travis Parks Cleanup, Lake Travis Underwater Cleanup)                                                               
• Organize your own cleanup (Cleanup Kits available)
• Recycle at your next meeting or volunteer to help recycle at a KAB event (KAB Recycling Kits available for checkout)

BEAUTIFY                                                                                                                         

• Design and paint a mural
• Remove graffiti (KAB provides painting supplies through Tool Shack)
• Plant a flower bed, tree, wildflower meadow, etc. (KAB Tools available for checkout)
• Participate in a trail maintenance day (remove brush, repair a trail)
• Find your own way to make Austin even more beautiful

 EDUCATE                                                     

• Complete the Patch Pals Activity Book (click here to request copies for your group)
• Complete a Patch Pals Activity Kit (Activity Kits available for checkout)
• Mark storm drains
• Create a play, game, or story about an environmental topic (recycling, waste reduction, native plants, air quality, etc.)
• Read a book about the environment
• Make a presentation to another group about how they can keep Austin beautiful
• Go on a nature field trip

Have you completed the above and are ready to receive your "I Keep Austin Beautiful" patch? Click here to download the application form and then simply mail (105 West Riverside, Suite 230, Austin, Texas 78704),  fax (512.391.0624), or email to monica@keepaustinbeautiful.org (preferred) the form to KAB.