Stable Management Lesson Ideas For 5-7yr olds

[miss_molly]

Any suggestions. 2 girls with own ponies. 3 days in a row for 30 mins. As a mini pony camp sort of thing alongside riding lessons 3 days in a row.

I have one idea of points of horse with post it notes and then a homework sheet of cut out and stick on the labels and a word search.

Need 2 more. Anyone??? Mine are all for older kids / teenagers.

 

[sherbet]

Walk round stables, field looking for nasty plants objects that should not be there. Getthem to draw and colour there dream yard. Set up a course of jumps to help learn distances they can then ride it in there lesson

 

[teresagarsden]

Fitting all different types of boots on pony - travelling - brushing - tendon - overreach.
Its always funnier when you give then 4 different boots and a pony and let then fit them first, I did this once with some older trainees the results were so funny.
Bandaging is always good too as they can practice on mum and dad for homework.
Teresa

 

[teamsarazara]

names of brushes and one with parts of tack and one about what different feeds and grazing does for horses, just have to explain it in an easy way! thats what we do!

 

[miss_molly]

I did think of bangaging and boots but thought may be a bit too complictaed for them?? May be funny though just not sure I have anything to fit a shetlands legs.

Any other ideas?? its at their home so not much stuff to use.

 

[Bethie]

Grooming kit - identify brushes and how you use them

Parts of bridle, take apart and put back together in right places, with their eyes shut once they've done it once or twice

Plaiting if they are girly, that type of child can spend hours prettifying the ponies

Types of jumps if they are into jumping, drawing/explaining if no kit, building them and jumping them on foot/on ponies later if they've got the stuff

 

[Honey08]

Different colours and markings.

Drawing the perfect field - well fenced, field shelter, stream...

Drawing the perfect stable/stableyard.

As previously mentioned, grooming kit - names and uses.

I could have kissed my son's instructor when they did tack cleaning at pony club!!

Little quizzes go down well too.

 

[only_me]

Colours of ponies. May seem easy, but when you actually ask them what colour a pony is (that isn't their own) they never know!

Different types of bedding

how to pick a foot out

 

[Dubsie]

You could prepare some outlines of ponies and just heads and get them to colour them in appropriately with eg star, snip, blaze, stocking, sock, etc and also colours eg bay, chestnut, grey, palomino etc. - you could put the face markings in one bag, leg markings in another, and colouring in a third then they can pick one of each to colour in a pony - girls esp love that. Would need plenty of brown colour pencils!

Another one - draw a BIG outline of a horse (a roll of wallpaper backing is cheap, stick 2 or 3 sheets together. Then play like you would pin the tail on the donkey with different points of the horse - put the points on different coloured post-its one colour per child, then they can try to stick them on in the right place when blindfolded....award points for each correct, and a lesser number of points for in the right area, and tally on a score at the edge of the sheet. This can be quite funny!

You could put different things the kids ponies eat in a bag, and get them each to put their hand in and feel and smell to identify, then ask about the properties of that feed and why they have it (don't forget to include grass, and also a little bowl of water which inevitably gets spilt by the first child, which is amusing - just ensure you leave these prepared ready to use beforehand with a 'DO not touch' so the water isn't spilt!)

 

[Tnavas]

5 - 7yr olds - needs to be fun, practical with pictures rather than words - reading skills still low at this level and of no more than 10 mins

Lesson - Explain how ponies are measured, show flash cards of markings
Practical - Blank picture of a horse and felt pens, colour the pony and put in the markings. Name & height

Lesson - Show how to use Dandy Brush, Rubber Curry, Hoof pick.
Practical - Brush over pony after riding

Lesson - Catching and putting on Headcollar, giving titbit
Practical - Catch Pony, put on Headcollar.
Reward with titbit after lesson.

Lesson - Quick Release knot, how to tie it, why we use it and what to tie it to - use the easiest one
Practical - one pretends to be the pony the other ties the pony up, then swap


Go to Pony CLub web site and find syllabus for level E which I think is the UK equivalent of our Lead Rein Achievement.
It will give you ideas