
Going to the beach doesn’t always have to entail hauling huge amounts of clobber with you. Why not travel light and try your hand at sand sculpting instead? All you need is some sand, the sea and your imagination…

No matter what the weather I just have to get out. Today it was beautifully sunny but there was a fierce easterly wind. We went to the beach. The sand was blowing horizontally in gusts and pinpricking our cheeks. We had unplanned impromptu fun. First we dashed into the sand dunes for cover which turned into a fab game
Is there anything more perfect than a happy sunny day spent messing about on the water with kids?
We spent a day recently crabbing with friends. For the price of a few bits of bacon and a crabbing line we had a whole day of activity that everyone enjoyed.
I even [...]

It’s amazing how many games you can play with a bucket on the beach!
We played this when we visited Nana & Pops on holiday in the Isle of Wight. Pops was a keen basket ball player back in the day and can never really resist the temptation for a slam dunk, [...]

A trip to the beach with kids doesn’t have to involve stacks of clobber. Next time you’re on the beach and you’ve had enough of digging holes and making sandcastles here’s an idea for a fun free activity using natural resources.

This is a great game if you are at the beach with a number of children and is a beach twist of the traditional game of musical chairs.
First you will need to dig a row of holes big enough for each child to hop into up to their knees. Make one less hole than [...]

All children (and adults) love bubbles and this is a winning recipe for making the biggest bubbles EVER!
We made our bubble mixture in situ on a recent picnic to the New Forest as we could just collect our water from the stream, but you could make it [...]
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