Equine Activities
Where all the posts on equine assisted services will be organized
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The last couple of weeks I talked about playing with colors and why colors are an important part of development. Now I want to focus on the second tool we use for differentiation – shapes! What You Need:Balls, rings, dice, boxes, cones, etc.
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Our whole world is made up of colors and shapes. They are often the first ways we learn to interact with the world around us: a red square, a yellow ball, etc. Colors and shapes are extremely noticeable. We see them and recognize them and categorize them every day; much more than we do with…
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What You Need:Colored Toys (rings, cones, cue cards, balls, buckets, etc.) Colors are one of the first things we learn. Riders may not understand left or right, but they often understand colors. I love to play with colors in my lessons. I use colors as directional cues, as rewards for riders, as games, and just…
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I had the pleasure of teaching a ground lesson to adults recently and it was so fun. I usually teach children and young adults so it was fun to step outside my normal therapeutic riding lessons and get to do a ground-based lesson for adults.