Horse Games For Kids In Camp!?

Question

I am helping with a camp. We need some fun games for young kids! Any ideas? If so explain them please!

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Answer 1

Try to play ball or horse shoe on the ring

Answer 2

You can have quizzes on tack, anatomy, and grooming.

We just had the kids play red light-green light, and there's little walking races you can play, obstacle courses are fun, too. We even had a competition for the fastest around-the-world. I'm thinking of getting a bunch of small cones and putting them in the outline of a horse, big enough to take up the whole indoor arena. Then I call out a horse part, and whoever on their mount gets their first gets points. You can have all of the activities have points, and at the end of the day, kids can buy little prizes with their points.

Answer 3

today at camp we did relay races, balloon pop, and breakin' out (somebody calls gaits and you have to do them by the count of three or you're out... if you break you're out) ... but we're not that young and we're all fairly experienced

Answer 4

the bareback dollar race

u get on a horse bare back

while sitting on a dollar bill

u can have as many participents as u want

once u and your friends r on your dollar,

u do different gaits,and whoever's dollar falls off,loses

its just a fun game to do when your bored

or theres the'around the world excersize' u take the stirrups off,and swing your right leg over to the left side,then your left leg over the horses rump,so u should be facing the opposite direction of he horses head,and just keep going untill some one falls off or gets tired,its mostly a leg warm up

Answer 5

Lay poles on the ground to form two rows of "stalls" like this:

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Take a CD player into the ring and play musical stalls. It's fun and exciting, but only safe if all the horses can stay calm and be polite with one another when they get close together.

Sitting trot egg and spoon

Sit-a-buck: Riders mount up bareback. Each rider is given 2 dollar bills (or pieces of paper). The riders must hold the bills with their legs (knees or thighs), first at the walk, then the trot, then the canter. If a rider loses both of their bills, they're out, and the last person with one or both bills wins.

Bobbing for apples (horses and people, but use different buckets)

Answer 6

Yeah...

              "egg toss" with water balloons

               bareback relay races

               human horse shows... those are always fun!! you set up jumps and the kids jump them and they have a blast.

              

ENJOY!!

Answer 7

I drag a big tarp behind me and my horse and my kids love to ride the tarp  we make sharp turns and they roll off . whoever stays on the tarp longest wins. It is a hoot. Lotta fun. A blast.

Answer 8

Dizzy cowboy...race to a designated line in the arena, helper hands the child a pole which is planted in the ground while the child puts his forehead down on his hands that clasp the end and runs around the pole to the count of 3 times, then has to remount (he'll be dizzy) and race back to the starting point.  This is a timed event requiring a stopwatch.

Answer 9

i love these questions. at our barn we have..

Wheelbarrow races (one person pushing, the other in the wheelbarrow)

balloon fight (water.. we did it on the last day.. the people leading it told us all to sit outside on the bench, then we were waiting and eating.. and all the sudden we were bombarded with water ballons!)

toilet paper race~ you're on horseback.. put a piece of toilet paper b/t two people, have them ride around without the paper breaking.. at a walk, trot, then canter even.

egg and spoon~ classic... ride at a walk, trot, and canter while holding an egg in a spoon. (tips~ put the spoon in your mouth to have more control, and go into a two point so its not as bumpy at the walk and trot. my friend cantered bareback and didnt drop her egg :)

two person relay~ you have two people on each team. they have to mount there horse, ride up and around the cone/bucket/pole/barrel and back, dismount fast and tag their teamate.. then they do the same thing

i cant think of anymore.. we also painted horseshoes, made posters where you look through magazines.. find breeds, colors, and certain tack on a list and then you cut it out.

and a treasure hunt. you have to find tack, nails, and certain things hidden around the barn. we also had a scavenger hunt.. where we made up cool rhymes and gave each team a paper.. the papers were small, and rolled up (tied witih blue or red ribbons.. to determine teams) we split up the group into two teams, one red one blue. then they have to read the clues to figure out where the next clue is hidden. we got very crafty and creative with our ideas.. one was

"roses are red, violets are blue, the next hidden clue is somwhere around you" and they started out in a stall, and had to look in the clean shavings and around the buckets in the stall

oh and if they are old enough, make the riding games like red light green light, and simon says, bareback!

Answer 10

"Red light green light" or "simon says" are good for their horsemanship/transitions/control.

Answer 11

red light green light, around the world, obstacle course, egg and spoon race, ride a buck, broom polo, cherades, simon says, relay race, carry a glass of water without spilling it, etc.

Make sure you stay away from thugs that get dangerous or rowdy.  I once played capture the flag on horseback with 45 other people-- it was scary.

Answer 12

How about letting them make stick horses and then having a stick horse race?  You could even have some obstacles for them to go around or over!

How about the old "Pin The Tail On The Donkey" game?

You could have grooming races and whomever grooms their horse the fastest and the best wins!

If they ever break down into smaller groups, you could have them play Horse-O-Poly.  There are several different ones.

If they are really young, you could teach them all the grooming and tack supplies and then have a game about naming them when you hold them up.

How about a horse scavenger hunt where they have to find a list of horse related items?

If they are going to be on horseback, they could do relay races where they pair off and have to switch off during the course.

Hope this helps!