Like cats and dogs, horses are often a favorite animal of children. Thanks to the many horse websites for kids that are available, children who do not live near a ranch can still learn about horses and play virtual games that simulate racing a horse or taking care of a stable. Such sites often also provide sections for horse information, stories and quizzes.
Games
Horseland is a site for online horse games as well as an online community for horse lovers to play horse games with fellow enthusiasts. Horse games include being able to own, breed and show your own horse, ride your horse in a 3D world, customize your horse, play 3D horse jumping games and create 3D jumping shows. Ultimate Horse Fun provides online games such as a horse colors jigsaw puzzle, “Ask the Magic Pegasus,” horse anatomy hangman and a “horse drop” game similar to the game Tetras. Horse 4 Kids is another horse site for children featuring online games and activities. Games include memory games, seek-a-word, color book, horse breed word jumble, a shooting gallery game and a maze. Also featured is an online “game room” that includes horse racing games and dress up games.
Educational
Ultimate Horse Fun is a horse site for children that provides horse information, quizzes and contests as well as online horse games. Quizzes include those about horse care. HorseFun markets itself as “the homepage for horse lovers” and is also the home of the HorseLovers Club, a club for kids who love horses. Members of the club receive four horse books a year, each filled with horse facts, puzzles, quizzes, stories and activities.
Crafts
Ultimate Horse Fun is a kids site that features horse crafts, including horse tail bookmarks, horse stable frames, a horse mane paperclip holder and a carousal horse picture holder. Horse Maniac includes many sections devoted to children, including a selection of horse craft kits for purchase including sticker kits and cross stitch kits. The website Artists Helping Children is not exclusively dedicated to horses but does feature a section on horse crafts for kids.
Stories
Some horse sites for kids feature horse stories and many include a link for submitting horse stories. Horse 4 Kids features a link for children to submit their own horse stories while Ultimate Horse Fun encourages kids to send in their own horse stories, articles and poems. Horse Fun wants children to send in their own stories, puzzles and quizzes. The Ultimate Horse Site is another site that features horse stories and encourages readers to submit their own.