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 ...

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 ...

Richard Mungeam, co-owner of Beach Sand Sculptures.. Courtesy Beach Sand Sculptures Editor’s note: This tour of small businesses across the country highlights the imagination, diversity, and ...

“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 ...

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 ...