Texas Official Things?

Friday Night Lights or football in general
Lightening storms
Cowboy boots
Gulf coast
Tex-Mex
Big trucks
Chili peppers
Armadillos
Cactus
Tumbleweeds
Hot cowboys ;)

Love my adopted state. :)

State song - Texas Our Texas
gemstone - blue topaz
Insect - monarch butterfly
seashell - lightning whelk
state pepper is the jalapeño.
state grass is the sideoats grama.
state motto is "friendship".
state vegetable is the 1015 sweet onion and the
state fruit is the Texas red grapefruit.
oficial dish of Texas is chili.
Texas's official dance is the square dance.
The Armor-plated armadillo is the offical state small mammal and the Guadalupe bass is the state fish.
Texas's official flying mammal of the Mexican Free-tailed Bat.
The state large mammal is the Longhorn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Texas_state_symbols

Try this list

also look up how the states got their shape.. they always have interesting and sometimes unknown facts ..

google Texas state symbols wikipedia. It even has state cooking impliment, dog, food, bug, etc

hats
rattlesnakes
cactus
boots
spurs
saddles
beef
chili peppers
belt buckles
from the coast - hammer head sharks, jelly fish, man of wars, seagulls, shrimp, oysters.

I live in south Texas. close to Gulf of Mexico. Bar B Que is the biggest thing around here. Always a cookoff of some kind. Houston Livestock show and Rodeo is also exciting and fun. Galveston Beach has a new Pleasure Pier which is a lot like the famous Boardwalk.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/texas/

there you go...Texas Butterfly, Bird, etc.

have fun!