Hobby Horsing USA

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Hobby Horsing USA’s Program by Lesson

Hobby Horse lessons are numbered in the order we suggest that they be presented, but teachers can choose any lesson at any time to correspond to their curriculum and the locomotor skill they are wanting students to perform.

Warm Up Lesson – This lesson features our Hobby Horse warm up song called I’m a Hobby Horser. Play the song and have the students walk around the perimeter of the room (all in the same direction) to the rhythm of the music. Later this lesson can be used for many other locomotor skills to be part of the warmup.

Lesson 1 – Walking – This lesson features the Hobby Horse Circle Walk Song that directs students to playfully walk in a circle, as a group, and use a variety of walks including heel toe, penguin, toe heel, tippy toe, sumo, heels only, marching and sloth.

Lesson 2 – Trotting – This lesson features the Hobby Horse On the Line Trotting Song that directs students to trot in place, move forward and backwards, move at diagonals, and trot fast and slow.

Lesson 3 – Prancing – This lesson features the Hobby Horse On the Line Prancing Song that directs students to prance in place, move forward and backwards, and move at diagonals.

Lesson 4 – Stationary Movements – This lesson features the Hobby Horse Stationary Fun Song that directs students to perform a variety of stationary movements including pendulums, rocking horses, “Yee Haws” and stomps.

Lesson 5 – Combination Locomotor Skills Activity #1 – this lesson features Hobby Horse Combination Song #1 – This song directs students to combine a variety of locomotor knowledge for walking, trotting, prancing and stationary movements.

Lesson 6 – Leaping – Step, Step, Leap, and Hold – This lesson features Hobby Horse Leaping Over the Puddle Song that demonstrates and engages students in the step, step, leap and hold style of leaping. Leaping by alternating lead foot.

Lesson 7 – Leap, Land, and Close – This lesson features Hobby Horse Lily Pad Leaping Circle Song that demonstrates and engages students in the leap, land, close style of leaping. Leaping with the same lead foot.

Lesson 8 – Jumping – This lesson features Hobby Horse Cowboy Ken Jumping Song that will direct students to use a variety of jumps including 2-foot jumps, mogul jumps, bell jumps, scissor jumps and straddle jumps. Students move side to side, forward and back, and more.

Lesson 9 – Combination Locomotor Skill Activity #2 – This lesson features Hobby Horse Combination Song #2. This song directs students to combine a variety of locomotor knowledge for leaping and jumping.  

Lesson 10 – Sliding – This lesson features Hobby Horse Sliding Circle Song that teaches a variety of sliding skills (skating, side to side & diagonals) through a progression of movements.

Lesson 11 – Galloping – This lesson features the Hobby Horse Galloping Circle Song that directs students with the fundamentals of galloping and then galloping changing lead feet. Students learn the step, slide, step; step, step, trot, gallop and gallop higher methods.

Lesson 12 – Combination Locomotor Skills Activity – This lesson features the Hobby Horse Combination Song #3. This song combines a variety of locomotor skills including sliding, galloping, trotting, prancing, jumping, leaping and more.

Lesson 13 – Hopping – This lesson features Hobby Horse A Hopping We Will Go Song that directs students to hop in a variety of ways including changing feet, to the right and left, and forward and back.

Lesson 14 – Skipping Step-Hop Method – This lesson features Hobby Horse Step-Hop Skipping Song that teaches and directs students to learn how to skip using the Step-Hop method.

Lesson 15 – Skipping March Higher Method – This lesson features Hobby Horse March Higher Skipping Song that teaches and directs students to learn how to skip using the March Higher method.

Lesson 16 – Combination Locomotor Skill Activity #4 – This lesson features the Hobby Horse Combination Song #4 – This song combines a variety of locomotor skills including hopping, skipping, galloping, trotting, prancing and more.

Lesson 17 – The Hobby Horse Slide – This lesson features our signature line dance, The Hobby Horse Slide. This lesson features our signature line dance, The Hobby Horse Slide.  Students will learn the locomotor skills needed to perform the choreography to the music.  Locomotor skills include shuffle steps, sumo walks, grapevines, spinning grapevine,

Lesson 18 Walking – Advanced Skills – This lesson featured advanced walking skills and two reinforcement songs Hobby Horse Circle Walk Song #1 snd Hobby Horse Circle Walk Song #2. Students will be engaged in learning complicated walking choreography including grape vines, open the gate, close the gate, zombie walk, mummy walk, straight leg kickbacks, lunges, high lunges and more.

Lesson 19 Trotting – Advanced Skills This lesson featured advanced trotting movement skill supported by our Hobby Horse Trotting On the Line Song. Students will enjoy complicated trotting locomotor skills choreographed to a fun song featuring moving forward and back, side to side, boxer shuffles, trot / hop combinations.

Lesson 20 Leaping – Advanced Skills – This lesson features leaping and advanced leaping skills supported by choreography to an engaging song the Hobby Horse Fun Leaping Song. Students will start with some basic leaping movements and the advance to leap ball changes, diagonal leaps and more.

Lesson 21 Jumping – Advanced Skills – This is an advanced jumping lesson featuring advanced jumping skills combined in the choreography of our Hobby Horse Cowboy Ken Jumping Song #2.  Students will be instructed to march, jump, bell jump, scissor jump, straddle jump, X jump, squat jump and more.

Lesson 22 Sliding – Advanced Skills – This lesson features sliding and advanced sliding skills choreographed to our song Hobby Horse Sliding On the Line Song. Students will use side tap, K slides, Basketball Buard, Olympic Speed Skater, Test the ice slides and more.

Lesson 23 Galloping – Advanced Skills – This galloping lesson features galloping locomotor skills choreographed to our Hobby Horse Galloping Fun Song. Students will enjoy galloping along in a fun aerobic galloping exercise.

Lesson 24 Hopping – Advanced Skills – This lesson incorporates more advanced hopping skills into the choreography to our song Hobby Horse Hopping Song. Included are right and left hops, forward and back hops, hops and shuffle steps, patterned hops and more.

Lesson 25 Skipping – Advanced Skills – This lesson features advanced skipping skills that students will use in the choreography to our song Hobby Horse Skipping Song. Students will be skipping in place, forward and back, side to side, out and in, grapevines, single, single doubles and more.

Lesson 26 New Hobby Horse Slide – Students will follow along with our locomotor skills featured in various Hobby Horse Lessons.  Once your students learn our version we suggest that you allow them to use other locomotor skills to develop their own Hobby Horse Slide dance.

Five Hobby Horse Game Activities that combine a wide variety of locomotor skills in a fun way. This is ideal for encouraging social skill development

Hobby Horse Obstacle Course Activities

Hobby Horse Competitions

• • • • Pole Bending Relay Team Race Heat Based Even
      • Hobby Horsing Hurdle Race Competitions
      • Team Hurdle Race Heat Based Event
      • Hobby Horse Team Bandana Dash Heat Based Event
      • Hobby Horse Stampede Fun Race

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Build Your Own Pool Noodle Hobby Horse Instructions. – choose to build your own Pool Noodle Hobby Horses. We offer you a complete guide to building three different styles.  Use it as a student’s arts activity that they will also use with your physical education program. We provide you with the list of all your needs for a pool noodle hobby horse or a pool noodle head and wooden dowel hobby horse. Follow our step-by-step instructions and or follow along with our video instructions.

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