Equine Enrichment Week: August 10-14, 2026

Our daily schedule helps participants build essential skills in caring for and riding horses. 

Beginner Sample Schedule

• 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.: Goat care – Walk the goats 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. This activity builds 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.

Intermediate-Advanced Sample Schedule

• 8:30 a.m.: Welcome –  Exploring equine body language and comparing to our own.
• 8:45 a.m.: Teambuilding – "Horse Speak" – Communication and conversations through our voices and actions.
• 9:30 a.m.: Small Animals – Introducing Positive Reinforcement through clicker training (R+1) with Penelope, the 14-pound bunny, and Wednesday and Zelda, the goats.
• 10:00 a.m.: Horse Care – Transferring clicker training to horses; training with the mechanical lift for mounting and dismounting.
• 10:15 a.m.: Horse Riding – Drill team practice and synchronized strides.
• 10:45 a.m.: Horse Care – Bathing horses, cool down regimen, and introducing mane braiding.
• 11:25 a.m.: Wrap Up – Clean up, bathroom break, and overview of tomorrow’s agenda.