Start each morning on the right hoof! Join us for school vacation and select summer weeks to have an immersive experience of feeding, caring for, riding, and training the horses. Enjoy lots of 1:1 animal time alongside our staff: Collaborate with your peers to design and ride your own obstacle course, create a riding pattern to a song of your choice, and train an animal to learn a new skill!
April Vacation Camp: Equine Enrichment Days
- Monday-Friday, April 15-19
- Deadline for enrollment: Friday, April 12
- Limit: 6
- Age limit: None
- $190/day, or $180/day when enrolled for at least 4 days*
*Discount will be applied after registration
Summer Camp: Equine Enrichment Days
- Monday-Friday, June 24-28, August 19-23, August 26-30
- 8:30-11:30 a.m.
- Limit: 6
- Age limit: None
- $190/day, or $180/day when enrolled for at least 4 days*
*Discount will be applied after registration
Sample Daily Schedule
Our daily schedule helps participants build important life skills.
- 8:30 a.m.: Welcome – Exploring horse colors, breeds, and markings using puzzles/pictures/matching.
- 8:45 a.m.: Horse nutrition – Designing our own obstacle course: colors, poles, cones, hula hoops.
- 9:30 a.m.: Sheep care – Walk the sheep through obstacles and practice red light, green light for verbal and visual cues to the animals.
- 10:00 a.m.: Horse care – Retrieve a horse from the pasture, halter, and walk it to the grooming stall. Sequencing and single/multistep instructions to groom horses. Sharing grooming tools with peers.
- 10:15 a.m.: Horse riding – Games and steering on horseback. Pairing verbal/visual cues and 1:1 instruction with horse leaders. Red light, green light, blue light for scaffolded learning.
- 10:45 a.m.: Horse care – Untack horses and return to stalls. Teamwork and step-by-step instruction to put tack away correctly with peers.
- 11:00 a.m.: Craft – Use of color and manipulatives to create a horse photo frame.
- 11:25 a.m.: Wrap up – Clean up, bathroom break, and overview of tomorrow’s agenda.
