Quick Release Knot
Step by step instructions for how to make a quick release knot with coloring pages.
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Put Together an English Bridle
Riders must color each box and each piece of the same color. Then they will cut out each of the pieces and layer them together to make a completed bridle.
Horse Skeleton Bundle
This collection of worksheets is designed for a wide range of students ages and knowledge and covers 31 different bones in the horse’s skeleton. Includes coloring pages, fill in the blanks, crossword puzzles, word searches, definition matching and more.
Transitions – Worksheet
Identify upwards and downwards transitions, color a horse roan or bay depending on the transition, write the number of beats in each gait, and think about the aids required for a transition.
Parts of the Horse – Crossword
This two page activity page is setup in landscape mode. It features a coloring book horse where 35 different parts have a number corresponding to the crossword puzzle.
Tack Up The Horse – Activity Page
Color each piece, cut out the tack, and then lay it over top of the horse in the correct order. Can you name each piece of tack as you put it on the horse? For an extra challenge, label the name of each item and list the parts of the tack you can remember.
Lessons For All Riders!
We are now offering lessons for students who cannot groom, tack, or lead a horse without help. When you schedule a lesson please select Limited Lesson – Cannot Tack a…
Horse Summer Camp Bundle
This is designed for horseback riding programs looking for an easy solution to keeping kids entertained at their summer camps. It provides activity ideas, 31 of our free and paid…
Chardoneigh – Growing Up
It’s hard to believe she’s already a year and a half old! Here are some fabulous pictures to show her progress and how big she is now. She’ll be 2…
New Addition!
I’d like to introduce the newest addition to White Oak Stables! This is ShaNeighNeigh aka NeighNeigh, a 3yo, 14h quarter pony cross adopted from a local animal shelter. She was…
Visual: Trotting Diagonals
Rising Sitting Most riding instructors start teaching diagonals as soon as the student beings trotting. They tell you to look down at the outside leg and go up when…
More Responsive to Leg Aids
The Problem I see a lot of horses at local horse shows and in lesson barns that have become, what I call, “dead to your legs.” If you have to…
Summer Camp – I
Summer, Summer, Summer Time The girls had a blast and we have tons of pictures to show for it! Horseback Riding Each camper got to ride once a day, and…
Building An Outdoor Arena
If you’re interested in building your own outdoor arena then congratulations, you’ve found a great place to start. I recently built an outdoor arena, and on a steep hill no less,…
An Old Horse Doesn’t Mean A Quiet Horse
I see it all the time on the Internet, someone is looking for a beginner friendly horse and the first recommendation people give them is “get an older horse.” Well…
How to Properly Mount a Horse
For most equestrians you would think that getting into and out of the saddle was a no-brainer — wrong! I don’t know how many posts I see on Facebook with…
Beautiful Sunrise
We had a really beautiful sunrise this morning and I thought I would share it. As you can see the fencing of our big pasture is all finished as well….