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Sandcastle Building
How to Find The Best Sandcastle Building Site
Here's how to find your best sandcastle building site...
First, to build a sandcastle, it's necessary that you are on one of the best sandcastle building beaches, like Delray Beach!
Then choose an area near the water, but not so close that waves will destroy your sandcastle building site when the tide comes in.
For the best sandcastle building site, make sure you have a large enough area to build the sandcastle you have in mind.
Delray Beach Photo courtesy of Dawn Pennington
If you don’t want to build too close to the ocean and utilize the water table, your other option is to carry buckets of water from the ocean to your sandcastle building site.
NOTE: The closer you build to the shoreline, the closer you'll find the water table to the surface, which means less digging.
You will know you’ve hit the water table when you see dark and moist sand.
Water is the glue that holds the sand together, so you want to have an easily accessible source of water.
Connor's shovel
How To Start Your Sandcastle
Most important in sandcastle building, just like any construction, you must have a strong and solid foundation to build a sandcastle.
Use your shovel to scoop wet sand in the center of your sandcastle building site.
Pile up the sand with your shovel and then make a large mound on top.
Then make a crater and fill the crater in with water and jump up and down and stomp on it with all your might like your're doing an Indian rain dance!
It helps if you yell and scream when you do this too!
Do this until the sand is firmly packed.
A really big sandcastle!
Then...
Pile on some more sand and repeat jumping up and down and stomping and yelling and screaming with all your might again and again! Do this until you are completely out of breath.
By this time, the sand should be firmly packed and you should have the perfect solid foundation for your sandcastle building site!
To build really cool sandcastles, use your creative imagination and include drawbridges, lagoons, moats, turrets, windows, battlements, stairways, points, and other decorative medieval architectural features.
To watch a one-minute video on making the best sandcastle building site click on the arrow in the middle of the screen below to view a sandcastle video.
