Love the Beach Hate the Sand -Good Clean Beach Hack

Caveats to this idea: YOU are responsible for the safety of
your children and probably would be held responsible if some other random kid
used this and got hurt.  Make sure that
if you leave your area or leave for the day, you do not leave this full of water.
You need to take the shower curtain home with you.

The beach is a great place to take the kids.  They love to play in the sand and splash in
the water.  The only problem is that the
sand sticks to the globs of sunscreen you have caked on your pre-walker. By the
end of the day, they look like a sugar donut and even at bath time you are
still finding sand in their nooks and crannies. 

Maybe you have tried keeping them on the blanket, or you
making frequent trips to the water to rinse them off.  The rinse off does not usually last long
because the ocean is not usually very calm and you cannot always get more than
a quick dip before they are squealing with fear.  If you live in the Northeast, that water is
also pretty cold even in the summer time.

Before you read further, the caveat to this cool little
beach hack is that you MUST take responsibility for your kid’s safety.  You cannot implement this and then just sit
back and read a book. Someone needs to keep a constant watch on the kids. Also,
do NOT leave it there when you leave.  I
know I already said this, but you probably did not read  the last time. If you read them both, then
you deserve a cookie or a medal. Consider it an award for safety.

A family who sat near us on the beach would come down every
morning and dig out a square pit in the sand. It was about 6 inches to 1 foot
deep and about 4 feet by 5 feet. Some days they dug the pit smaller. It just
depended on how many kids they had with them.  They then proceeded to line the pit with a
plastic shower curtain and put the sand from the pit over the edges to keep the
liner in place.  They then filled this
pit with water and made a little pool for the kids to play in.  This was awesome because they had a little
spot for them to splash around. Over the course of the day, the pool got pretty
warm.  Maybe it was from the kids
whizzing in it, but it was probably because it did not take the sun long to
warm up a little pool.  Both my 3 and 18
month old loved the pool. The little guy kept crawling over to our “neighbor’s”
camp to play in theirs with their kids. 

Enjoy the beach!