Some teaching ideas for a 10y/o girl?

[Lillypuff]

I've been asked by one of the other liveries whose little daughter also keeps her pony at the yard, if I would mind giving them a few lessons. Before I go any further, I should point out that I'm not an instructor and doing this as a favour to the lady as she's a friend and has helped me a lot in the past and now I've got the chance to help her daughter. Her daughter is 9 or 10 and has recently lost some of her confidence, as she's taken a few falls from her friends ponies and is now a bit nervous about her own. Her instructor hasn't really helped the situation as she's quite pushy and the girl hasn't been enjoying her lessons recently. I was at the yard the other afternoon whilst the girl was riding and was watching her ride and giving her a few bits advice etc and she apparently really enjoyed herself and her Mum has asked if if I mind making it a more regular thing, which of course I don't.

She's a pretty good rider - can walk, trot, canter and jump although recently she hasn't been cantering very much - and I was hoping for some ideas on how to make it fun for her and take the pressure away from cantering/jumping. I was thinking along the lines of doing excercises such as 'Simon says' (touch your head, the ponies ears etc) and maybe walk/trot without stirrups and using poles laid out in different ways for to neogiate her way around. I was alsoi thinking of some gymkhana type games, but would these work with only one rider and pony?

Any more ideas and tips for fun ways of teaching this girl would be very appreciated!

[baby_steps]

here are just some random, slightly useless ideas

-weave through cones
-traffic lights (red = stop, amber= walk, green = trot)
-tell her you bet she cant do something and then she'll try harder to do it
-make some poles into a shoot type thing and get her to walk through them, then make it harder by doing it in trot or making the poles narrower
-get her to change the rein but she has to get really close to the letters, so close that she can touch them
-make her ride a straight line to you and then she has to give you a high 5 but you mustn't move, she has to steer to you
-maybe you could lunge
-jumping position over poles to give the illusion that she is jumping, and then put a tiny crosspole in after 3 poles

I don't really know what you could do. These are just some of the things that I do with the kids that i teach

Good luck