ARAYA'S BIRTHDAY BARN BASH ~ FUN GAMES ON HORSEBACK

I just celebrated my birthday with a super fun party at the barn!  Check out the photos in the photo album!  What made this party perfect was spending the entire day on horseback!! Here are some of the games we played that I definitely recommend for a fabulous horse birthday party:

ROUND UP ~ This game is played in teams (we had 3 teams of 2 riders) and the goal is to find as many plastic animals as you can that are hidden and placed around the arena and then drop them in your team's bucket in the middle of the arena.  Each rider is given 4 minutes to find and drop in the bucket as many as they can before the next player on their team goes.  You can only pick up one animal at a time and drop it in the bucket before finding another animal.  We added water balloons to the mix and each team had to have at least one balloon (unpopped) in the bucket at the end of the game - it added a great challenge as the balloons could pop on the animals and/or the drop into the bucket.  All of the teams are riding at the same time so you have to dodge and steer your way around the other riders.  It was SO much fun we played it twice!!

TACK UP AND GO!  ~ This is another game played in teams and is really fun!!  You start at one end of the arena where you place all of your tack and get ready to tack up and ride.  It takes a lot of teamwork because you have to tack up together and decide who is doing what quickly. After you are tacked up, each rider has to ride across the arena as fast as they can and come back to the tack up spot for the other team member(s) to do the same.  This is a blast because you can ride as fast as you want!  After all of the riders have ridden, everyone has to untack as quickly as they can and whoever completes it first, wins.

SYNCHRONICITY GAME ~ This is a really tricky but super fun game.  It is all about riding in synch with your partner.  Before the game officially starts, teams of two get a chance to ride next to each other and match each other's pace at different gaits to get in synch.  Some teams held hands, others put a crop between them, basically you could practice however you wanted to get the riders and horses in sync.  After a ten minute practice, each team was given a piece of crepe paper to hold between them and the object of the game is to hold the crepe paper without ripping it throughout the game while changing gaits, positions (i.e. 2 point, posting) and riding around the arena.  It was hard to stay in sync but there was the additional challenge of steering in sync and not running into any other riders and horses!

THE EGG & SPOON BALANCE ~ This is a really fun balance game where each player has an egg on a spoon and they need to hold it while riding around the arena and changing gaits and positions.  It's super hard but what was great was sometimes when the egg dropped, it didn't crack so you could try again.  We each ended up going through 2 eggs and had so much fun!

WATER BALLOON TOSS AND FIGHT ~ We also did a water balloon toss in the arena on foot and that was fun.  After the toss, we had a balloon fight in the arena with our trainer and it was a blast!  It was perfect because it was a hot day and we had been riding all day.

This was definitely my favorite birthday party ever!!  I'd love to hear about your horse parties!!

See ya around the barn,

@raya

Comments

[Unicorn Party Supplies]

What a fun bright party for family and friends. Everything looks just perfect!

[Araya]

Yes we had an awesome time! It was definitely a party to remember!! You're right, Rebecca, that is my trainer Lisa along with my barn mates. She's just as funny in real life as she is in the out takes! Weren't the out takes funny? Some of them really crack us up! I especially like the one where Indigo slobbered on me! Hehe!
Your horse pal,
@raya

[rebecca]

Hi Araya,

it looks as though you had a great time at the barn - I recognised people from the DVD in the photos. Wasn't one of them Lisa the trainer from the stable days DVD? ( the one laughing in the out takes at the end?)

[stevie]

What great fun it looks Araya, I hope you had a good time with all you friends.

[Sydney]

OMG, I know what I am doing for my next birthday. What a great idea. It looks like the best time, how fun!
Seeya
Sydney

[Cayce Frierson]

Sounds like ya'll had fun. Happy Belated Birthday @raya.

[Claire]

Thanks for the pictures and the story- your party sounds like the best! I've got to go to horsebackriding! But, I had to see if you posted pictures! THANKS! I wish I was there!
love,
Cl@ire