When you’re hitting the beach with the entire family, you’ll need to bring a good amount of items to keep the kids busy because you know they’ll get bored fast. So, to help you increase your time ...

We've all been there before. With a couple of brightly colored buckets and plastic shovels, down on our hands and knees in the gritty wet sand, trying to build a sandcastle before the tide comes in ...

This is part of our great big guide to the DC area’s best beaches. From the surf scene in Virginia Beach to Ocean City’s expansive boardwalk, we found the best bites and activities (yes, even in ...

As building blocks go, pancakes fall low on the list. But a successful sand castle, I learned, starts with pancakes. A tall stack. Turns out those plastic molds I had packed with sand — only to dump ...

Bournemouth University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Whether we prefer water sports or relaxing with a good book, the humble sandcastle is often a seaside must. But what’s the ...

“Use your architect mind,” says Sudarsan Pattnaik, an award-winning sand sculptor from Puri, a seaside city in India. If you’re building from memory, first envision your castle. For Pattnaik, who is ...

When Viola Connelly and her friend Casey Metzler, both 10, enter the annual Saltaire Sandcastle Contest on Fire Island, the girls from Manhattan and Brooklyn choose a timely theme — they craft an ...

A bucket, shovel and a big imagination. That’s all dozens of families needed Saturday for the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium’s family sandcastle day at San Pedro’s Cabrillo Beach. In its seventh year, the ...