Summer day camp for young riders
Offered most weeks from June 6 – August 27, 2022
CAMP SCHEDULE:
5 days per week (Monday through Friday) from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm.
COST PER WEEK:
Weekly cost per camper: $475 (full payment is required to reserve your space/dates; payment can be made by check, Paypal, Venmo).
CAMPERS bring their own bag lunch daily, along with a refillable water bottle.
CAMPER ACTIVITIES
Campers ride twice daily, participate in horsemanship activities, as well as arts and crafts.
Each day will have a getting to know you game, riding lessons, craft, lunch, and afternoon group activities. If campers finish their craft early – they spend time with the mustang.
Additional activities include:
- Horse board games (played in small groups)
- How to handle a chicken
- Goat care
- Playing horseshoes
- Game: I have a few questions
DAILY SCHEDULE
(daily schedule can vary depending on weather and size of our group)
If we have a bad weather day, we do indoor activities: watch informational video on horses, and arts & crafts.
MONDAY
- We review Camp Rules and our goals
- GAME: Animal name game
- Whole group learning how to groom
- Practice steering on the ground while other camper pretend to be horses
- Riding activity- practice posting with hands on hips, head, airplane, behind back
- Practice stopping/ walking on
- Trot on 50 ft 3x each
- Craft: friendship bracelets /beaded bracelet
- Lunch discussion: color of horses
- Ride piglet / Eyeore bareback
- Lunge line jump rope
- Worksheet
TUESDAY
- GAME: Find someone who
- Pretend to be a horse in the arena
- Riding – practice skills learned yesterday, posting , stopping, trotting 50 ft
- Steering on rail
- Red light green light game
- Craft: horse colors collage / build a horse out of craft materials
- Lunch discussion: breeds
- Pm ride 3 horses – play around the world
- Capture the flag
WEDNESDAY
- GAME: Never have I ever
- Breed tag
- Riding- walking over a Cavaletti
- freeze dance
- Trotting on a lunge line
- Craft: horse shoes in yarn
- Lunch discussion: markings
- Hide and go seek
- Learning how to lunge a horse
- Bubble bath a horse
THURSDAY
- GAME: If I was a pony
- GAME: two truths one lie
- GAME: potato sack races / relay race
- riding- English ! Learn half seat do over a jump at the walk
- Craft: horse poem & coloring page
- Lunch discussion: types of competitions and riding
- Trail ride around property
FRIDAY
- GAME: Beachball getting to know you game
- GAME: Scavenger hunt / hide and go seek
- Riding contest- horse show! Grooming show win sticker
- Review of skills for the week, Simon says
- Craft: ornament, puppet etc
- Lunch discussion: review of colors, breeds, markings and disciplines
- Bareback ride
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