10 Fun & Educational Games to Do in The Sand This Summer
Playing in the sand is fun for any age. The best part about playing in the sand is that you can make it fun and educational. Check out these ten fun and educational games you can play using sand.
#1. Sand Art
You can use real sand for your artwork or you can give your artwork the illusion that it’s made with sand. You can paint with sand by adding paint to your hand and then dipping it into sand. You can also use a paint brush for the process.
#2. Dinosaur Dig
Kids love nothing more than digging through sand. Create a dinosaur dig for them by adding in little tiny dinosaurs.
#3. Sensory Box
Kids love anything you can do with sand, so create their very own box for them. You can make your own sand or bring some home from the beach with you if possible.
#4. Balloons
Take a couple of balloons and fill them with sand. You can take the sand balloons and play with them sort of like stress balls.
#5. Collecting Seashells
Collecting seashells is fun on its own, but counting and sorting seashells is a ton more fun. After you’ve collected all of your seashells, place them back in a bucket of sand. Pull one out at a time and separate them by color, texture, or design.
#6. Moon Sand
If you can’t get to a beach to play with sand, then make some moon sand right in your own home. Take baby oil and flour together to your desired texture. You can play with the moon sand just like normal sand and have just as much fun
#7. Sand Creation
Instead of building the traditional sand castle it’s fun to challenge yourself and do a sand creation of your own. Use items you have with you to build a unique sand creation. You can even have judges to determine who has the best creations. Kids love competition so this is incredibly fun.
#8. Obstacle Course
If you want to challenge your body with something fun, consider creating an obstacle course. Put hula hoops on the ground and jump through them. You can also place tires, ladders, bins, buckets or anything else you have lying around to create the optimal sand obstacle course. Just remember you will need to carry the items back and forth to the beach, so you may want to keep it light.
#9. Sand Pictionary
Have your kids draw words in the sand. This is a fun and educational activity using sand and kids of any age can participate. Either have your kids write letters of the alphabet or complete words. When someone gets at least ten letters or words right, then they will a prize.
#10. Sand Hopscotch
If you really want to get your heart racing, consider doing sand hopscotch. You can use glitter hairspray to draw the lines in the sand, or you can use rope or something to draw out the squares. To add even more fun to the game of hopscotch make it a little more challenging by adding extra squares.
Using a natural substance like sand is perfect for teaching, learning, and having fun. Especially if you live near the beach, but want to keep you
These are some great activities! I LOVED going on Dinosaur digs in the sand when I was a cute. They even have Dinosaur digs at our Zoo (they even put fake dino eggs in there so kids can find them!) <3
I love Dinosaur dig on sand too. And now I still play it with my son
Love this list of activities for the summer. When I was little, I used to enjoy some of this. Thanks for sharing.
Those are all awesome ideas. We spend our summers at the beach, so I will be trying a few of these for sure.
What a great post and terrific educational game ideas! I grew up on the beach and have such fun memories! Your suggestions are a great way to learn and have fun together!
I’ ve never thought to fill balloons with sand. That is a great idea! All kids love balloons. 🙂
I’m a morning person so I always take the grandkids out for an early walk on the beach and we look for seashells. We’ve got 2 beach trips coming up, so I’ll use some of your great ideas.
What great ideas! I love the idea of putting sand in a balloon to use a stress ball. I think I’ll keep that one for year round 🙂
I love dinosaur dig, even though we did not group up around the beach.
Ooh sand art could be so much fun! It would be so cool to see what the kids could come up with.
I love the sound of all of these and I know my little boy would just love them. I need to try the sensory box and the moon sand with him on our next trip to the beach 🙂
These are all such great ideas. I think kids tend to get bored after a while of being at the beach, these will keep them busy for sure!
These are great ideas! I don’t have a sandbox or live by the beach, but we will be visiting the beach at the end of the summer. I’ll have to pin this to remember for our trip!
These sound like a lot of fun! Kinda makes me wish I had kids so I could try these out on them. Perhaps I can steal a neighborhood kid…………………………………
Number four!! Sand balloons? Why haven’t I thought of us. I am totally stealing this idea. Xo
these are some great sand ideas! I really should make my daughter a sensory box! She would totally love something like that!
These are great ideas on things to do at the beach!! I can’t wait to go to the beach this summer!!
These are wonderful ideas, alas I rarely go to the beach since I don’t live anywhere near one. I’ll definitely have to keep these in mind, though! 🙂
Summer has just ended here in the Philippines but I think we managed to check 80% of the activities on this list!