The one thing that was (slightly) disappointing to Carolyn about the beach we visited the other day was that there were no shells to collect. So, I bought a bag at the craft store. And I found this great recipe for sand dough. Luckily, we have a sandbox full of nice sand waiting to be used in the kitchen. Or something.
We tried using the seahorse molds, but they wouldn’t release, so we had to clean them out and try again, spraying them with vegetable oil spray first. I have my doubts as to whether these will hold together when dry, but both girls wanted to keep them, so we’ll see!
Then they went to town with the shells. Carolyn wanted to make a seashell windchime, but none of the shells had convenient holes and I didn’t quite know how to make holes in them without breaking them. So we settled for making sand dough/sea shell decorative nick-knacks.
And that concludes our beach week! And not a moment too soon…I’m getting tired of cleaning sand off of the kitchen table from all these projects!