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Location: Texas | I need some ideas if you have any. We will be holding summer camps again this year. This will be my second year to do this. Still feel like I am jumping in over my head. Anyway... Need some arts and craft ideas that we can do after lunch in the heat of the day. Horse related if possible. Or if you have any other ideas or things your kids may have told you were cool from camps they have gone to. Age range is usually 5 yrs and up. Majority of them are 5 to 10. Thanks.. |
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Location: ia | i just saw a thing on martha stewart. not horse related, but neat. she was making feather eggs. blow out the eggs, put elmers on them with glue, and place feathers on it. real easy, looks pretty neat the way she did it. there were lots of different colored feathers. you could make it last longer if you made them go out and find the feathers or catch a bird and pull them off! lol just kidding! |
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Location: Tx | What about decorating feed buckets...They could bring their own feed bucket and stencil pics or sayings on them. Or even decorate t-shirts, halters ... |
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Location: Grandfield, OK | If you can - find somebody to teach them braiding - kids love it and they can actually use the knowledge forever. My niece can braid you anything and is good at it - I taught her when she was about 7 yrs old. Unwind old ropes and let them make leadropes. Team ropers have old ropes everywhere they will give you. |
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Location: Washington State | Horse shoes! My kids have made little decorated birdnests out of them, among other things. But, they make great little picture frames. |
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Role Model Mom
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| Take old team ropers nylon ropes and make baskets out of them, I have a few of them they are neat.  |
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Location: Wisconsin | Why not have them make "stick-horses" then they can have races after they're finished!! Speed beads would be easy too. |
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Location: california | Have them make a scrap book. Everyday after riding, they add something from the day. And take pictures of them riding and doing activities and they can add those at the end of the camp. I know someone who recently tried this and the kids loved it, and the scrap books turned out really cute.  Also, I don't know what the focus of your camp is, but here they do lots of trail rides and dummy roping. The kids loved the roping. They also did a camp fire and had a sing along at the end.
Edited by Cowgirl Up! 2004-03-31 9:23 AM
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Location: WA | Ok, I have never seen this, just heard about it. It is a pie eating contest. Have apple pies ready for each camper/horse combo. May have to have a couple of heats if you don't have enough horses. When you start, you give the pie to the horse.... they eat! Then, what the horse doesn't eat, the kid has to finish! It sounded utterly gross to me! And I am not sure how to make the pies so that a horse would consider it, but may be fun! I think the other ideas were great!!! |
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Location: Yukon, OK | okay here is an idea.. it is somewhat horse related.. get some pine cones fill them up with peanut butter and then dip them really good in bird seed. then if they go on a trail ride they can take their decorated feed bucket with their pine cones in it and drop them along the way for the birds... |
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Location: Washington State | Originally written by Lisantwist on 2004-03-31 9:21 AM
Ok, I have never seen this, just heard about it. It is a pie eating contest. Have apple pies ready for each camper/horse combo. May have to have a couple of heats if you don't have enough horses. When you start, you give the pie to the horse.... they eat! Then, what the horse doesn't eat, the kid has to finish! It sounded utterly gross to me! And I am not sure how to make the pies so that a horse would consider it, but may be fun! I think the other ideas were great!!! We do this every year at County Fair with the 4H'rs. It's a hoot. Of coarse we had to get the vet's blessing a few years ago when we started. APPLE PIE ONLY!. Except we do it with two kids, 1 horse and two pieces of pie. One kid eats his own pie and the other kid and the horse have another piece. The horse is supposed to eat the pie, if it doesn't then the handler has to eat it. We have had some horses that can down pie in a nano second and others that just blow snot and the kid still has to eat it. It's a riot! |
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Sexy Bee Yacht
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Location: WA | Hairball, I am sure this is what I heard of. I heard it from a 4-H mom in my area.... A little gross for me, but I guess the kids had fun! |
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Location: Texas | Yall are great!! Boy these city folk would just die if they heard their kid had to eat a pie after the horse snot all over it!!!!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!! I may have to try it!!!!!! May not get any return customers but my hubby and I sure would have a laugh!!! 
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