Youth Programs
Wild Horse Camp
A program for youth 6-18 to come and connect with the horses and animals. Learning equine science as well as compassion and respect for all life.
Junior Wild Horse Camp
For kids 5-10, fun activities and games as well as connecting with the animals and learning respect for all life.
Wild Horse Camp Level II
Wild Horse Nature
Wild Horse Camp Level II we will continue learning about equine ethology and the sentient nature of animals.
Classes
Equine Nutrition and water needs, what horses eat in the wild and where they find water. Supplements for special equine care.
Nature walk to identify plants that horses eat in the wild.. Kids will also learn how to draw a horse and will receive a Wild Horse Field Book that they can decorate the cover. Horse bean bag toss, reading to Charlotte the Reading Donkey and a special reading of the book, "The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses" with Sidewinder/Odin listening to the story.
Activites
How to Draw a Horse
How to approach and groom a horse
Horse corn hole game
The Power of Presence (workshop for teens)
A six part workshop for teens
The Power of Presence is designed to give teens strategies and tools for reducing stress and anxiety and for learning to cope with the world around them.
The round pen becomes a medicine wheel with the group facing each cardinal direction in turn. Each direction has different energies associated with it and the participant learns how to tap into those energies.
Sidewinder-Odin, "Medicine Horse of the Dakotas"
Sidewinder-Odin, who came to us from the Black Hills of South Dakota, walks around the wheel and stops at each participant to impart his wisdom and energy.
Horse Greeting
Participants learn how to approach a horse respectively and say "Hi"