24 March 2020

Introducing the Young Reds At Home Academy!

We hope you are all keeping safe and well at this very uncertain time and thank you for your continued support of Redwings.

We're constantly reviewing and adapting to the Government’s guidelines and in light of the recent school closures we wanted to help you make keep the children entertained... and pick up some essential Redwings and horsey care knowledge at the same time!

May we introduce the Young Reds at Home Academy!

Below is a wide array of free and fun downloadable quizzes, colouring sheets and ideas for activities at home. Complete as many as you can and you'll soon be a Professor in all things pony!

We have four different collections of themed activities to pick and choose from:

Horsing Around - Imagine you are a member of the Redwings team and help us with some of the tasks we undertake to look after our rescued residents.

Horsing Around activity sheet (PDF 228 KB), and accompanying Paddock Puzzle (PDF 432 KB), Donkey Differences Game (PDF 954 KB) and Example Resident Profile (PDF 846 KB).

Things to Make and Do - We've put together a selection of boredom-busting craft activities!

Things to Make and Do activity sheet (PDF 221 KB), and accompanying 'Could you be a Redwings vet?' Board Game (PDF 473 KB), Horse Biscuits Recipe (PDF 316 KB), Make a Fortune Teller (PDF 256 KB), Design Your Own Horse Rug (PDF 351 KB), Create a Horseshoe Photo Frame (PDF 403 KB), Make a Pony Mask (PDF 278 KB) and Perform Your Own Pony Panto (PDF 292 KB).

Let's Get Quizzy! - How much do you know about horses and Redwings? Take our quizzes to find out!

Let's Get Quizzy! activity sheet (PDF 221 KB), and accompanying Baffling Breeds Quiz (PDF 458 KB), Coat Colour Challenge, (PDF 424 KB) Fabulous Foals Quiz (PDF 508 KB), Checkers' Quiz (PDF 527 KB), Rehoming Quiz (PDF 540 KB) and Pony Professor Quiz (PDF 377 KB).

Quiet Time - A selection of mindful activites to 'chill out' with.

Quiet Time activity sheet (PDF 224 KB), and accompanying Doodle a Donkey sheet (PDF 435 KB), Adoption Star colouring sheets - Arya (PDF 94 KB), Dayzee (PDF 93 KB), Fox (PDF 94 KB), Sampson (PDF 93 KB), Tinkerbell (PDF 93 KB), Victoria (PDF 93 KB), Wiggins & Wacko (PDF 65 KB) and Zippy (PDF 90 KB).

You can keep tabs on what you've done with our Record Sheet (PDF 215 KB) and please make sure to send us images of any challenges you complete to young@redwings.co.uk or tag us in your photos on social media. We'd love to share what you've been up to!

As a special thank you for taking part, we've also created some certificates to print off and present to your 'graduatues'! Don't forget to send us photos of them with their certificates too!

At Redwings we believe education should be fun and free, therefore we have provided these resources at no charge. However, if you would like to support us through these uncertain times, we would be very grateful for a donation. You can help us by clicking here.

We hope you enjoy taking part in the Young Reds At Home Academy and we can’t wait to see what you get up to!