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Fun Beach Activities {Beach Ideas}. The weather was just perfect to hit the beach this weekend. We had an amazing day! So, today I wanted to share some summer beach ideas. These ideas are great for summer activities at the beach. If you are planning to party with family and friends, you will love these ideas. They are not only easy, but very useful to make your beach experience memorable. Beach fun ideas for taking pictures, making sandcastles and collecting seashells for keepsakes. Plus so much more for kids too.
List of Beach activities
- Beach chair with strap
- Take a year photo at the beach
- Make funny faces on the sand
- Make a beach tent
- Beach towel with pockets
- Take an inflated pool
- Fun beach nail art
- Take frozen cold water bottles
- Make a sandcastle
- Take accessories for hanging things
- Make a puddle in the sand
- Make a sundial
- Cute keepsakes of hands and feets
- Take wind proof candles
- Use props for interesting photos
- Blow bubbles
- Make disposable BBQ grill
- Use molds and other stuff to make sandcastles
- Make sand village
- Build sand city
- Collect seashells for crafts
- Make wind chime or wind bell
- Play beach games
- Volleyball
- Waterproof beach bag or beach tote
- Build a snowman at the beach
- Create a construction site
- Fly a kite
- Dig a hole
- Play scavenger hunt
- Bury your body in the sand
- Make sand mermaids
Summer Beach Fun Activities for kids and parties
1. Quick chair fix
Carry a beach chair without loading up your hands. Weave a dog leash to make a strap for easy picking.
Beach chair with strap
2. Year photo at the beach
Kids memories from the beach. Take a picture of your kids with their current age.
By Whipperberry
3. Funny shadow photos
Funny faces group photo idea.
4. 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.
5. Beach towel with holder
Make a beach towel with pockets
6. Pool fun at the beach
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 so that it stays in place.
Inflatable pool for kids
7. Paint Your Beach Nails
Beach fun nails. Have fun making patterns on your nails to create anticipation for the trip.
8. Beach tip for cold water bottles
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.
9. Make a sandcastle
Building a sandcastle is buckets of fun. All you need are water, sand, household items and some helping hands.
10. Beach tip for hanging
Great tip! Add a shower curtain ring to your bag. And you will never lose your keys again!
11. Make a pond
Dig and make a puddle of water in the sand.
Have fun hopping in it until it dries.
12. Make a sundial
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.
13. Cute keepsakes
Fill Plaster of Paris in your hand and foot print to make these cute keepsakes.
Hand print keepsakes from sand
14. Make wind proof candles
Enjoy a beautiful sunset in the light of bottled candles.
All you need is sand, glass and candles!
via ElMueble
15. Use props for photos
Use a frame to take an artistic photo.
16. Blow bubbles
Blow bubbles on the beach and have a competition of blowing largest bubbles.
17. 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.
18. Using molds at home to build sand castles
Use popsicle molds to make sand castles.
I love this idea of accessorizing with beachy items for an interesting photo.
Did something click?
19. Seashell Crafts
Instead of filling a jar with sand and seashells! Make a decorative seashells lid.
Seashells jar lid via Etsy.
20. Seashells wind chime or wind bell
Collect seashells to make beautiful crafts.
21. 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
22. DIY beach bag
Turn a garbage bag into a waterproof beach bag with duct tape.
Make a waterproof beach bag by wrapping a gift bag or grocery bag with patterns of your choice and leave a loop at the top. Pass a rope or string through the top and viola!
23. Build a snowman at the beach
How about building a snowman with sand instead of snow in summer? This will create fun and excitement in kids and make memorable pictures for this year. Image via pinterest source unknown.
24. Simple sandcastle city
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.
25. Create a construction site
Kids love to use their imagination to create cities and landscapes. Especially when it involves cars and trucks. Whats more exciting to build a construction site at the beach where you can get tons of sand and space to grow as big as you want. Get a team of kids to work out a big site with sand toys and cars.
26. Fly a kite
It’s always windy at the beach which makes it the best place for flying a kite.
27. Dig a hole
Kids love to dig holes while their imagination is working hard to fascinate them that they might end up finding a fossil, a seashell, a rare stone or a rock and even a precious mineral. Enjoy the ride digging holes in sand takes them on!
28. Beach scavenger hunt
Create a list of unique items you can find at the beach or print one from the internet and explore the beach for these items. The one who finds the most or is the quickest wins.
29. Bury into the sand
Dig and bury your body or a friend’s body into the sand. Make fun patterns or forms and laugh it out. These can make fun pictures too. Use props or kids beach toys.
30. Make sand mermaids
Dig in the sand and use mermaid costume or draw mermaid tail for some fun photos at the beach.
I hope you enjoyed these beach activities. I have included some new ideas I had in mind and the list has been refreshed to 30 cool activities for beach. Disclaimer: some of the pages are no longer existing, hence I updated the links. If you find the source please notify me, I’ll be happy to include.
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I’m taking notes and making a lists for our family reunion. This is a great resource. Thank you!
Great games ideas for kids to play on the beach! My kids love playing cricket and kho-kho at beach.