Surely beach days are a wonderful opportunity to spend time of fun and discovery with your children. We propose them some activities and crafts for a beach day with children, which link with those we told you last week.
Children love the beach. They can run free, get wet, lie on the ground, splash, be barefoot, feel the sun, water and air on their skin. They feel full of energy and joy, even if they later burst home.
But there are times when they can also get bored, especially if there are not many other known children to play with. Actually, that they don't know them doesn't matter, surely, if they are shy, you can help them make new friends or become the most interesting family on the beach if you play with your children.
So that the beach day is perfect we can plan simple games and activities that we propose when we see them scarce of ideas. Thinking of helping you, we continue today with more Game proposals for a beach day with children.
Picture with footprints in the sand
Our first proposal needs some planning and, although it can be done at home, if you do it on the beach it will be hilarious. In the video you can see the instructions and, although it is in English, it is understood only by seeing the images.
It consists of making a mold with sand in which you can leave traces of his feet or his hands and then, covering it with glue, let it dry to make a picture of indelible prints.
Sensory box with beach sand
A sensory box It is a box or container full of tactile materials that children can explore. We are going to use sand to put in it all kinds of objects: they can be things that we collect on the beach or any type of materials. Ideally, there are things of different sizes, shapes, textures and hardnesses: plastic, wood, metal, cloth, cellophane, paper, silver paper, leaves, stones, sticks, shells ... there is no limit.
It will help children exercise their fine motor skills and the discernment and classification of objects and also helps improve the ability to verbally describe what they touch.
In the beach sand sensory box or drawer we will put the small toys and objects and invite them to describe them first with the touch and then already, looking at them.
Marine sensory box
This variant of the sensory box, the marine sensory box It also stimulates your sense of touch, the ability to imagine and guess and your verbal expression. The drawer should be made of plastic (a tray that cats use is ideal) and we will fill it with water, introducing plastic marine animals (better if they have never played with them to make it more fun to guess) and pebbles, Algae and shell remains. Sand and water are, as you can see, a source of wonderful games.
Collection of shells and magic stones
On the beaches we can find all kinds of wonderful treasures to collect. Just walk along the shore with the children and collect what catches their attention. There will be shells of all kinds, seashells, stones of all colors and those sand-polished critals that look like precious stones.
save our collection of shells and magic stones and classifying them will be a pleasure that, in addition, if the child's age allows it, we can complement with explanations about their origin, about the forces of Nature that have been eroding them and also imagine together stories about the place where each one was formed and All the adventures he has run to get here. This game in the sand of the beach is going to be the star of the summer for sure.
Make rocks
Another creative and superinstructive activity is make rocks, allowing children to better understand the natural mechanisms of sedimentation. You must collect fine sand, coarse sand and small stones and put layers in a mold, covering each of them with glue and letting it dry before adding the next layer with a different material.
In the end you will have several different strata and an original masterpiece that they will love to keep. Silicone molds are ideal for easy removal when dry and hard.
Medallion with shells
A variant of this activity is to make a medallion with shells. In that case the mold must be round and small. We put the sand with the tail and when it begins to harden we decorate it with rocks. It is important to remember to put a string at the beginning, then be able to make the pendant. Finally, once dried and removed from the mold, we can decorate with glitter and varnish.
As you can see, you can do many activities and crafts with children related to the beach which also become true treasures that will remind the whole family of these wonderful vacations. There will be more, so that not a single day is not fun and learning with them.
