1. Horseback Riding Lessons – Call around. The difference in cost is huge depending on the kind of place that you are planning to let your kids take horse back riding lessons.

2. Kids Horse Camp – Find a kids horse camp in the summer. This is usually a day camp where your kids can learn to ride a quarter horse and care for horses. While more expensive than five days of lessons, it is much more reasonable than 16 weeks of lessons.

3. Trail Riding – If you have a bit of experience, you may have some local places to go trail riding in your area.

4. Horse Show - Look for horse shows in your area and attend.

5.  Scholarships – Ask about price breaks for horseback riding lessons. Many of the places that offer lessons will let some people work off part or all of their lessons. Taking care of horses is a lot of work.

6. Start a horse blog and encourage your horse lover to write about horses and build a website or blog about them. This helps them with their interest in horses as well as improve their writing and research skills.

7. Let your kids start a neighborhood horse club. They can get groups of kids together for parties, watching horse movies, playing horse games, read books about horses and such.

8. Horse Activities for Kids -  You can also do all kinds of horse crafts and activities for younger kids, although if they are getting older that might not interest them so much anymore.

These are just some of the ways you can help your kids get involved with horses without actually going out and buying one.