About Hobby Horsing USA
Gallop into Fitness with Hobby Horses!!!
Transformative Elementary PE and Dance Curriculum
Hobby Horsing USA is a dynamic elementary PE and dance program designed to enhance locomotor skills, balance, and coordination through engaging fitness activities for kids. Our standards-aligned curriculum makes physical education fun, combining hobby horse movement, music, and dance to create a unique learning experience.
✅ Standards-aligned K-5 curriculum
✅ Engaging & fun locomotor skill development
✅ Supports teamwork & social skills
Teaching Locomotor Skills in Elementary PE and Dance
Our locomotor skill development dances and physical education activities provide a structured yet exciting way for students to develop a wide variety of fundamental locomotor skills including:
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- Walking skills
- Trotting skills
- Prancing skills
- Stationary movement skills
- Leaping skills
- Jumping skills
- Sliding skills
- Galloping skills
- Hopping skills
- Skipping skills
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Physical Education Concepts in Motion
Students will master key physical education and dance concepts, including:
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- Moving in a circle or line
- Changing directions
- Forward and backward movement
- Diagonal and side-to-side movement
- Fast and slow pacing
- Line and circle dance choreography
- Rhythmic skills
- Free-flow movement
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Comprehensive PE and Dance Curriculum & Resources
Hobby Horsing USA’s structured program offers educators and students a complete learning experience featuring:
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- Over 28 choreographed songs
- 30+ locomotor skill variations
- 24/7 online video instructions
- Teacher manual with detailed lesson plans
- Student education materials
- Downloadable MP3 files for easy access
- Creative adaptations for diverse learning needs
- New activities added throughout the year
- Obstacle course activities, games, and competitions
- Hobby horse program materials, including DIY guides for pool noodle hobby horse
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Why Choose Hobby Horsing USA’s PE and Dance Hobby Horse Program?
All our lessons align with National PE and Dance Standards that:
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- Blend music, dance, and games with locomotor skill activities
- Provide developmentally appropriate and safe learning environments
- Encourage teamwork and social skills
- Inspire fitness and dance exploration beyond the classroom
- Offer an affordable and easy-to-implement curriculum
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Unique Features
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- Build Your Own Hobby Horse: Free guides to create pool noodle hobby horses to provide your own hobby horses for Hobby Horsing USA’s PE program.
- Choose Hobby Horses from either our standard or premier hobby horse collections. See Product Choices.
- Engaging Choreography: Incorporating learned locomotor skills into dynamic line and circle dances. See our Free Dance and lesson plan downloads.
- Fun-Filled Activities: Games, obstacle courses, and competitions that reinforce movement skills. See our Free Competition Download.
- Continuous Updates: Fresh content, including new dances and activities, added regularly.
- Supports National PE & Dance Standards: Aligning with K-5 physical education and dance literacy requirements. See National PE and Dance Standards Connections.
- Teacher & Student Benefits: Easy to use, physically engaging, and rewarding for all participants.
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Hobby Horsing USA Goals
This program provides a variety of physical education lessons combining locomotor skills with choreographed dance, activities and games while holding a hobby horse. Overall goals include:
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Students will learn basic locomotor skills and variations on each movement.
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Students will improve their balance, foot speed, muscle strength and kinesthetic awareness.
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Students will improve their cardiovascular fitness.
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Students will work on muscle memory and coordination
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Students will understand the concept of rhythm and timing
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Students will learn how to combine locomotor skills in stationary, choreographed circle and line dances as well as with games and obstacle courses.
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Students will work together and improve social interaction skills
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Students will have fun and develop a desire to participate in physical education activities.
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And to provide teachers with everything they need to successfully present and implement any our lessons and activities.
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David Fisher, The Rope Warrior
The Rope Warrior, David Fisher, has been performing his interactive and visually entertaining jump rope show all over the world for the last 30 years. Career highlights include performances for Boris Yeltsin in Russia, and for Presidents Clinton and Bush at their inaugurations. He has made over one hundred national television appearances and currently holds three world records. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! recognizes David as The World’s Best Rope Jumper. The Rope Warrior performs live for thousands of school children/week throughout the school year as he brings his Ropenastics shows and workshops across the country. As a professional rope jumper, Fisher recognizes the importance of great footwork. He has helped design the Hobby Horsing USA lessons to engage and challenge athletes of all ability levels. David is also an acclaimed author and singer/songwriter and co-creator of Hobby Horsing USA’s fun and engaging physical education program.
Ken Frawley/Cowboy Ken
For over 40 years, Ken Frawley/Cowboy Ken, has provided thousands of children’s and family shows and elementary school assemblies in Southern California. He is a professional storyteller, children’s music artist, puppeteer, and cowboy trick roper. He has produced the We Sign ASL and songs video series, authored a variety of books, and created the We Play Along YouTube channel. He has lectured and PreK – 2 conferences throughout the United States on how to use American Sign Language, ASL and activity songs to support early learning through music and movement. He also created the Los Angeles Dream Shapers, a performing arts organization that has provided over 50,000 assemblies and shows for 100’s of performing artists. Now has combined years of experience working with children to co-create Hobby Horsing USA’s fun and engaging physical education program.
Katia Lopez (Zany Zoe)
Katia Lopez is a professional Dancer & Magician of the worlds famous Magic Castle in Hollywood, CA. She earned a Bachelor of Science in (Multi-media/Visual Communications), she is Zumba certified and part of the Screen Actors Guild. She has entertained Hollywood’s A List, performed for millions on TV and for Fortune 500 companies. You might have seen her on television on America’s Got Talent. For over 25 years she has been performing magic shows for preschools, libraries, elementary schools, fairs, festivals and for other children’s and family presentation throughout Southern California. She has performed over 3000 shows in English, Spanish, and bilingually. Her facial expressions, zaniness, and enthusiasm engages audiences right from the start. Children and family audiences love her unique comedic style of magic. She got the affinity of doing Magic through her grandfather, which was a magician and one of the most accomplished professors in Nicaragua.
Teresa Smith
Teresa Smith is a professional dancer, choreographer, instructor and performer. She has been studying dance from the age of seven and honors her ancestry through dance. She mastered the intricate techniques of African dance under famous instructors from Senegal, Guinea, Cameroon, and the Congo.. As a dance choreographer, performer, and aficionado, Teresa shows that African dance is among the most stylized and complex art forms in the world. Having studied intensively multiple forms and styles of dance, from ballet to hip hop. Teresa has performed with the likes of MC Hammer, Sheila E, Akon, Shakira and Le Ballet de Kouman Kele. She currently teaches and performs dance programs for libraries, elementary schools, fairs and festivals throughout Southern California.