Sand castle building. Sand castles that will blow your mind
Probably each of us at least once watched how in the summer on the beach children with bright buckets and shovels fiddle in the sand. With enthusiasm they "bake Easter cakes", dig and fill their own "seas" with water, build towers and entire castles.
Probably each of us at least once watched how in the summer on the beach children with bright buckets and shovels fiddle in the sand. With enthusiasm they "bake Easter cakes", dig winding holes, dig and fill their own "seas" with water, build towers and entire castles. Very tiny kids, having filled the molds with sand, sniffing with zeal, try to turn them over without spilling the sand.
Last summer, Danila came to the sea for the first time in his life. Quickly enough, he found friends and girlfriends and built the first sand castle in his life. Here's what he got.
Secret #1
For the construction of the castle, you need to choose a great warm sunny day, preferably after rain the night before. The ideal ratio for construction is 8 parts sand to 1 part water. Pack sand and water tightly in a bucket or plastic box. Turn over and remove the bucket. The preparation is ready. Further sand for construction can be mixed with water and added in small portions to the site.
Secret #2
The water must be comfortable temperature. Not too cold.
Watch a short video on how to mix water with sand and carry the wet sand to the construction site
Secret #3
Shovels are great for digging and scooping sand, but hands are still the best tool for shaping walls and towers. Nothing can handle sand better. Well, a spatula is great for adding a small amount of water from a bucket, forming tunnels, drawing a picture on the walls and the like.
Secret #4
The tallest and most mysterious towers can be built using sand and water in a ratio of one to one. We form a pancake from such a semi-liquid sand porridge, put the next one on it, then another ... The water slowly leaves and the tower grows right before our eyes. Here is an example of a castle built in this way.
1. In order for the building material to be sticky and the castle to turn out well, choose good weather. A sunny day after rain is best.
2. The right place is the key to successful construction. Choose a place for the castle near the water.
3. Choose cold water to build a castle.
4. To prevent the sand from melting, act quickly: mix sand with water near the object and quickly transfer it to your site, building the details of the castle.
5. Don't be afraid to get dirty. The best sculpting tool is your hands.
6. For tunnels and drawings on the walls, you will need a spatula.
7. To keep the sand in the best shape, use the following ratio: 1 part water to 8 parts sand. After mixing sand with water, compact it in a bucket and turn it over - the ideal material for building a castle is ready.
8. In order to prevent the upper structures of the castle from crushing the lower ones, shake the sand before adding a new layer.
9. If you want to build something very interesting, use sand and water in a 1:1 ratio. To do this, make a pancake out of liquid sand, then another one and another one on top of it. Gradually, the water will leave, and the tower will take on an outlandish shape.
10. So that no one spoils your creation, make a moat around it and build a fence.
There are energetic, creative mothers and fathers who find it easy and even joyful to build a sandcastle. Both their hands and their souls lie in such a pastime. But, to be honest, there are not so many such enthusiasts. Often parents do not even know how to approach this fun. We offer a strategy that will definitely help.
Consider motivation. It is important to answer yourself the question: “Why should I waste time on these childish games?” The answers may be different: “To captivate and please your child”, “It is useful for the development of fine motor skills and speech”, or, to be honest: “After all the work, it will turn out beautiful photo that will look great on social media.” Choose the motivation that suits you best.
To make a plan. First of all, you need to understand the concept of future construction. It is better to draw an approximate diagram so that it is clear what to strive for. For example, a castle of three turrets, surrounded by a fortress wall.
Find tenants. Someone has to live in a castle, right? Perhaps a small doll (for example, from Lego sets) or an animal (cat, dog, bear).
Stock up on inventory. You will need molds, buckets (it is desirable that there are several buckets in the set that nest one inside the other), scoops and spatulas, a water container (for example, a spray bottle), a brush, a stack. So, let's start - with the direct participation of children, of course!
Step 1.
Drawing by Irina Dedusheva
We choose the most suitable building plot on the beach - not far from the sea, but not quite close, so that the water from the tide does not destroy our work prematurely. Smooth it out with a spatula. With a spatula or hands, pour a bunch of wet sand. Lightly tamp it down and, if it dries quickly, wet it with a spray bottle or bottle.
Step 2
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Drawing by Irina Dedusheva
Let's start building the first tower. We take a large bucket, pour sand into it and make a “kitchen”. We carefully put the next Easter cake from a smaller bucket on it. To smooth the gaps between the parts of the pyramid, carefully pour them with water from a spray bottle and touch up with a brush or a stack. If the building is stable, you can add a couple more "floors". Here is our tower.
Step 3
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Drawing by Irina Dedusheva
We can build the second tower in a different way, more conservative. We make “pancakes” with our hands and put them one on top of the other. The tower must have a conical
figurative shape, therefore, as we gain height, we slightly reduce the diameter of the upper "pancakes". Perhaps this building will turn out to be less beautiful and even than the previous one, but more stable.
Step 4
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Drawing by Irina Dedusheva
Why not build a third tower in a very innovative way? To do this, you need a two-liter plastic bottle. We cut it in half - we get a blank like a funnel. We will prepare a wet small pile of sand and press it on top with our homemade mold, slightly turning it in a circle. We remove the bottle - and we have a long turret with a small dome. We rake off excess sand from it.
Step 5
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Drawing by Irina Dedusheva
Using the stack, we make windows: we draw squares and slightly push them inward, as if making a tiny depression - a room inside. How many windows you need is up to the child and you to decide. This may depend on the number of residents. Finished towers need to be connected to each other so that they become a full-fledged castle. To do this, pour wet sand between the turrets and carefully form walls or ceilings.
Step 6
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Drawing by Irina Dedusheva
And finally, it is necessary to protect the castle with a fortress wall. We circle a conditional circle or square, as it is more convenient. And along this line we line up tightly in a row Easter cakes from buckets of the same size. The seams between them can then be removed with a brush or decorated with shells. It will turn out beautiful!
Sand, beach, relaxation - what could be better in hot summer weather. There are many interesting activities that you can do on the beach - swimming, volleyball, cymbal throwing and others. Today we will tell you about a very interesting and creative lesson - how to build a sand castle.
How to make a sand castle with your own hands?
It is probably impossible to show how a castle is built, but you can give right advice who will help you in this difficult task.
And so, a few steps towards a big goal - beautiful castle on the seashore.
Step #1. First of all - you need to choose the right place, or rather choose the beach. If you wish to build big castle, then extra people, children will interfere all the time. Try to choose a beach where there are very few people.
Step #2. Weather. It is advisable to build only on a sunny day, otherwise it will rain or strong wind will destroy everything.
Step #3. Tools. You can't do without them. You will need two buckets, a shovel and a knife. Buckets are needed to carry water and also mix it with sand, a shovel to dig sand, and a knife for small but important details in our castle building process.
Step #4. The location of the castle. Do not try to build a castle near the water itself, otherwise it will be washed away and soon collapse. Try to move 3-7 meters away from the water.
Step #5. As with any building, there must be a solid foundation. Level the surface, remove any debris and pour a bucket of water. Pack the sand well.
Step #6. The construction of a castle is like the work of a sculptor, who cuts the shape he needs from a large piece of wood or granite. cook a large number of wet sand, and start carving the castle from it.
Step #7. Do small details very carefully so as not to damage the entire lock. Sand is a very fragile substance, you need to be extremely careful with it. The first time, it may not work out, this skill comes with experience.
Step #8. You can decorate your castle with shells and beautiful stones.
Use our tips, and you will definitely get a beautiful castle!
VIDEO. How to build a sand castle?
In the summer, when you are on vacation at some seaside resort, you, of course, want to gain more vivid impressions, replenish your strength, and sometimes just feel like a seal lying on the beach. This is easy to implement if you are relaxing in the company of adults or on your own. But when small children are resting with you, it will not be possible to limit yourself to simply wallowing in the sand. Your child will quickly get bored with such a vacation, and he will require to come up with some interesting activity. To keep your child entertained, tell and show them how to make sand castles.
This type of entertainment is very popular with children - you can feel like a real builder using the simplest materials: sand, sea water and your hands. Sand castles are easy to build in the surf - where the sand is neither dry nor too wet. To do this, you can use sand molds, or you can build a structure of absolutely fantastic shapes from droplets of a sand-water mixture.
To teach a child how to build sandcastles using the drip method, dig a small well near the wave line, so that the waves do not reach it, but it fills up quickly with water. After that, pick up sand with your palm, dip it into the water of the well, and when the resulting slurry begins to flow through your fingers, start laying out the base of the future castle near the well with drops. So, layer by layer on the “shore” of the well, a fragile patterned structure will grow. Due to the fact that the size of the drops can be adjusted with your fingers, such castles can be decorated with beautiful openwork turrets. Children are usually quickly included in such a process, and it is almost impossible to tear them away from such construction.
Did you know that sand castles are not only children's beach fun? The fact is that since 1989 in the Canadian town of Harrison Hot Springs Sand Sculpture Festival. Sand castles, photos of which are presented at this festival, will amaze any imagination. There, this kind of creativity does not seem like child's play to anyone.
Masters who participate in such competitions take their works seriously. For example, they accurately calculated the proportions at which a solution of sand and water has the best performance to make sand castles durable. It turned out that in order for the structure to be strong, you need to take 1 part of water for 8 parts of sand. In addition, they pay increased attention to the quality and shape of the grains of sand - not every sand is suitable for construction. And the art of making sand sculptures has long been divided into two schools - purists and innovators. The former refuse to use auxiliary tools, formwork, and supporting structures in their sculptures. The latter actively use the engineering approach in the construction of castles.
Suffice it to say that sand castles built by craftsmen sometimes reach fifteen meters in height. But, perhaps, after reading this article, you yourself will become interested in such an unusual hobby. And your sandcastles will be even higher.
