Western Horsemanship Week

Yesterday was the beginning of a new theme week at Day Camp-- Western Horsemanship Week. This special week focuses on exploring the many different events that require western riding skills. Even most of our sports activities this week are centered around western events. On Monday, Slammer the miniature horse demonstrated the speed event of polebending, where horse and rider compete to get the fastest time weaving between tall flexible poles. Slammer is too small to be ridden of course, but he did an excellent job showing the kids how to weave through the pattern. After this demonstration, kids in each group broke into teams and did relay races through the poles. To make it a little more interesting, on the way back they had to balance cups of water on their heads. It was super fun! Kids also competed against their group members for the fastest time, with the winners in each group getting small prizes.

The Pinto group prepares to hand-off the styrofoam cup during a polebending relay race.