Activities for Younger Children

 

There will be organized activities for leadline participants and other children ages 4 to 10 who will be at the Youth Dressage Festival. The purpose of these activities is to motivate younger children to participate in Lendon’s Youth Dressage Festival in the future.

 Activities will be held on Friday July 9 from 2pm - 4pm, on Saturday, July 10 from 10am - 12noon and from 2pm - 4pm.  On Sunday, July 11, children’s activities will be held from 8:30am – 10:30am, to allow time to get ready for the leadline class at 12 noon. These activities will be held in the VIP Pavilion and in the sand ring behind it. 

Activities will include arts and crafts and traditional games with a horsey twist.  We will also learn and practice the leadline dressage test using our own two feet and stick horses.  We will begin learning Introductory Test 2, and the Walk/Trot Dressage Trail test.
 

• Bean bag toss
• Pin the tail (label the parts of the horse, and find the human parts they correspond with)
• Red light green light (demonstrating different gaits)
• Creating our own musical freestyles
• Designing and jumping our own courses
• Pony puppet props which we will pass around while discussing pony care and safety
• Putting a bridle together
• Putting polo wraps on each other
• Water Balloons
• Reading parts of the required reading books for ages 10 and under
• Interviewing Youth Dressage Festival riders about preparing for the show

Register your child to participate with this online form:  REGISTRATION

Please contact Susan Sieber at ssieber@interstatelumber.com to request additional information.