Summer Beach Fun

Carry a beach chair without loading up your hands. Weave a dog leash to make a strap for easy picking.

Beach chair with strap

Beach Photo Idea

Kids memories from the beach. Take a picture of your kids with their current age.

Beach photo idea

Funny faces group photo idea.

Making Beach Tent

Make a tent with sticks, leaves and a towel.

This is great for an Island fun at the beach. Kids always enjoy making tents.

Finding items for the tent makes a fun treasure hunt activity for the kids.

Photography by Ashlee Raubach.

Make a beach towel with pockets

Pool Fun

Take a small inflatable pool to the beach. Kids are sure to love it.

Be sure to add some sand at the bottom of the pool.

Inflatable pool for kids

Beach fun nails

Beach Tip

You can use water bottles twice at your summer picnic. First as ice packs and then as thirst quenchers.

Pour out an inch of water before freezing bottles. The bottles help keep the food chilled. But will thaw as the day goes on.

Leaving you with cold drinkable water.

via Martha Stewart

Make a sandcastle

Building a sandcastle is buckets of fun. All you need are water, sand, household items and some helping hands.

How to build a sandcastle

Great tip! Add a shower curtain ring to your bag. And you will never lose your keys again!

Make a pond

Dig and make a puddle of water in the sand.

Have fun hopping in it until it dries.

Use a stick and pebbles to make a sundial. Educate your kids on how to tell time without a watch.

The earliest sundial was made in 5000 B C in Ireland.

Make a sundial

Cute Keepsakes

Fill Plaster of Paris in your hand and foot print to make these cute keepsakes.

Hand print keepsakes from sand

Enjoy a beautiful sunset in the light of bottled candles.

All you need is sand, glass and candles!

via ElMueble

Use a frame to take an artistic photo.

Blow bubbles on the beach.

Make a  BBQ Grill

Make a temporary BBQ grill with foil. Dig a hole in sand and place the foil inside. Add stones around for a border.

Now set the fire with charcoal, add your rack and enjoy grilling.

Be sure to pack out your trash.

Disposable beach BBQ grill

Use popsicle molds to make sand castles.

I love this idea of accessorizing with beachy items for an interesting photo.

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Seashell Crafts

Instead of filling a jar with sand and seashells! Make a decorative seashells lid.

Seashells jar lid

Collect seashells to make beautiful crafts.

Make a seashell wind chime

Beach Games

I love this idea. Use square stamps to make a chessboard on towel.

Various dice games can also be made by simply printing on fabric.

There are two tutorials to print on fabric.

1) Fabric printing with starch

2) Fabric printing with freezer paper

DIY Beach Bag

Turn a garbage bag into a waterproof beach bag with duct tape.

Make a waterproof beach bag

And last but not the least. The idea that inspired this post.

A sandcastle simple enough to be constructed by a toddler.

Use different sized containers to make it fun for your kids.

Also a little pond which kids will enjoy filling with water again and again.

I hope you enjoyed these beach activities.

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