2021 Thursday Camp

Today was our 4th and final day of camp. We started our morning off with a group photo and then kicked off the horse show! 

The campers got to show off all of the skills they have learned this week!

In arts and crafts, campers made lava bottles, finished their rock picture frame holders, planted flowers in their flower pots they painted earlier this week and make wind chimes.

Campers got to play in the bubble station again for station 3 today.

At the end of the day, we had snack provided by Church of the Nazarene and cool pops from St Thomas Episcopal Church. 

We also had a pizza party sponsored by the Shifflett family. 

We will be taking a few (much deserved) days off but keep an eye out for a blog post soon thanking SO MANY donors, volunteers, and individuals who made this week possible! 

 2021 Wednesday Camp

Today seemed a little cooler :) But  what didn't change from yesterday... the smiles! 

As you can see, the ring was once again full of smiles! Our morning started out with Jim saying "I need someone to go buy me a mailbox!" Umm... what?! Well.. here is what he needed a mailbox for.

So, today in the ring the campers stretched, did egg and spoon races, relay races, and worked on getting mail from the mailbox! One group even got to barrel race! 

In arts and crafts, campers made thank you cards, cloud dough and yarn letters. 

We had a special visit from A Little Magic - Miniature horse therapy team and everyone got to groom and play with their minis.

Today snack was provided by Christ Anglican Church in Orange and St Thomas Episcopal provided ice pops. 

Tomorrow is our last day of camp for the year and our horse show! 

Checkout our Facebook page for more photos! 

 2021 Tuesday Camp

What an absolutely amazing second day! I told all of our new side walkers on Monday, today is an easy day... enjoy it while it lasts! I don't know if they believed me or not, but our campers showed up ready to RIDE and ride FAST today and they put their side walkers to work! If you have never experienced it, I can't explain it to you, there are no words to even begin to explain it! The smiles, the "let's go,"  "go again," "keep going," "don't stop" make all of the hard work worth it! Just LOOK at this smile!

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As you can see, in the ring there was no shortage of smiles and riding! Today campers started with a nice warm up and practiced carrying an egg and spoon. Then they got to speed it up and carry their egg and spoon while trotting! Before we were done we practiced steering around a barrel and picking up a stick out of a bucket and putting it back. But of course we couldn't stop there.... we had to speed it up! Side walkers.... I hope you get plenty of rest tonight because now that our campers have gotten a taste of the faster pace... tomorrow they will be ready to go!

In arts and crafts, campers painted river rocks to turn into picture holders, made pour paint pots that we will paint later this week and made "splat" pants!

Today we had a special guest, Lindsay Latham who did musical activities with the campers. 

At the end of the day campers enjoyed a snack provided by Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Rapidan and ice pops by Orange Presbyterian Church. 

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