Hobby Horsing USA Activity Information
Hobby Horsing USA is an innovative way for children to combine fun songs, dances, locomotor movements, games and activities with a hobby horse.
Hobby Horsing USA’s lessons are interactive and fun and are a celebration of movement, dance, music, fitness, and creativity.
Hobby Horsing USA’s Program is a DEEP dive into all of the locomotor movements (walking, hopping, jumping, leaping, galloping, skipping, jogging, and sliding),
Hobby Horse student physical education inclusion offers many benefits including stamina, rhythm, balance, foot speed, special awareness, moving in different directions, dance choreography, and much more. <Discover More>
Our Hobby Horse Program
• Supports both National Physical Education and Dance Standards
• Will provide fun and engaging locomotor skill activities combined with music, songs, dance and hobby horses.
• Will provide instructions for a variety of motor skills that are designed to enhance the physical, mental and social/emotion development of every child.
• Will provide for the learning and understanding of motor concepts and fitness
• Will provide opportunities for students to develop social skills.
• Will provide for safe learning environments that are developmentally appropriate and enjoyable.
• Will encourage students to explore dance and physical fitness outside of school.
• Will provide for creative manipulation of dances and songs.
• Will provide <many benefits> to your students. Link to benefits page
What is Included in Hobby Horsing USA’s Program
1. Video instruction for every lesson’s locomotor movement and line and circle dances is available online 24/7.
2. Video demonstrations for every lesson are available online 24/7.
3. Mp3 audio files for every song provided in the program
4. Mp3 audio files for additional line dance songs posted on YouTube.
5. Teachers’ instructional manual with lesson plans, tips, insights, student activities, and more.
6. Lesson to Warm Up – 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.
7. Lesson on Walking – This lesson features the Hobby Horse Walking Circle 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.
8. Lesson on 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.
9. Lesson on 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.
10. Lesson on 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.
11. Lesson to Review Multiple Locomotor Skill Movements – this lesson features Hobby Horse Multiple Locomotor Skills Circle Song #1 – This song directs students to combine a variety of locomotor knowledge for walking, trotting, prancing and stationary movements.
12. Lesson on Leaping Form #1 (step, step, leap, hold) – This lesson features Hobby Horse Leaping Over the Puddle Circle Song that demonstrates and engages students in step, step, leap and hold style of leaping.
13. Lesson on Leaping Form #2 (leap, land, close) – This lesson features Hobby Horse Lily Pad Leaping Circle Song that demonstrates and engages students in the leap, land, close style of leaping.
14. Lesson on Jumping – This lesson features Hobby Horse Jumping Line 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, diagonal and more.
15. Lesson to Review Leaping and Jumping Locomotor Skills – This lesson features Hobby Horse Multiple Locomotor Skills Combination Circle Song #2. This song directs students to combine a variety of locomotor knowledge for leaping and jumping.
16. Lesson on Sliding – This lesson features The Hobby Horse Sliding Circle Song that teaches galloping through a progression of movements. Students learn to step/slide, then step/step, then step/trot until they are comfortable galloping. Then they practice a “galloping higher” variation before switching their LEAD foot and TRAIL foot and starting the progression all over again.
17. Lesson on 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 method.
18. Lesson to Review Leaping, Jumping, Sliding, Galloping and more Locomotor Skills – This lesson features the Hobby Horse Locomotor Skills Circle Song #3. This song that combines a variety of locomotor skills including sliding, galloping, trotting, prancing, jumping, leaping and more.
19. Lesson on 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, diagonals and more.
20. Lesson on Skipping #1 (step hop) – This lesson features Hobby Horse Step Hop Skipping Song that teaches and directs students to learn how to skip using the Step Hop method.
21. Lesson on Skipping #2 (March Higher) – This lesson features The Hobby Horse March Higher Skipping Song that teaches and directs students to learn how to skip using the March Higher method.
22. Lesson to Review Multiple Locomotor Skill Movements – This lesson features the Hobby Horse Locomotor Skills Circle Song #4 – This song combines a variety of locomotor skills including hopping, skipping, galloping, trotting, prancing and more.
23. The Hobby Horse Slide Dance Lesson – This lesson features our signature line dance, The Hobby Horse Slide. Students will learn a line dance called “The Hobby Horse Slide” which features shuffle steps, sumo walks, grapevines, spinning grapevines (for a more
advanced version) and jogging variations in the chorus. The verses and bridge
have students moving in a square (to the right, to the back, to the left, to the
front) for 8 counts per side. Different locomotor movements can be selected for
the two verses and the bridge.
24. Five Hobby Horse Game Activities that combine a wide variety of locomotor skills in a fun way. Ideal for encouraging social skill development.
a. Hobby Horse Circle Game
b. Hobby Horse Free Roam Freeze Game
c. Cowboy Ken Says
d. Hobby Horse On the Line Game
e. Hobby Horse Follow the Leader Game
25. Five Hobby Horse Obstacle Course Activities – Five different obstacle course layouts where students can:
a. LEAP on the Lily Pads
b. HOP up the Hill
c. MARCH through the Marsh
d. SLIDE through the Swamp
e. GALLOP through the GULCH
f. BUNNY JUMP through the Badland
g. PRANCE Across the Plateau
26. Build Your Own Pool Noodle Hobby Horse Instructions. – choose to build your own Pool Noodle Hobby Horses. We offer you a complete guide to build two 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.