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We have been very busy filming some great videos

for you! Visit the Tiny Recreation YouTube Channel

to play games, sing songs, and follow along with your

beach activities. Each activity in this booklet is

accompanied by a video on our YouTube channel.

Some are short little clips while others let you spend

more time with us. We hope you have as much fun

watching them as we had making them!

tiny.ca/recreation/camps Beach in a Box

Tiny Recreation Beach in a Box

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Beach Ball

Beach Ball Cards in the box: Each card has a fun activity with instructions that you play with a beach ball!

The largest beach ball in the world was over 65 feet in

diameter and was created by Baywatch Movie (USA) in

London, UK, on 31 May 2017. The beach ball was

displayed on a barge on the River Thames.

1 cup of warm water

Large mixing bowl

Large spoon

Rolling pin (optional)

Parchment paper

2 cups of sand

Rocks or shells to decorate the clay (optional)

1. Mix together the sand, flour and salt in a large bowl

and slowly add the warm water, mixing as you go with

a large spoon.

2. Once combined, take the dough out of the bowl and

knead it on a lightly floured surface. In less than a

minute it should form into a soft, pliable ball (very

similar in feel and consistency to play dough or salt

dough).

3. Split the dough into smaller pieces for each handprint.

There will be enough for 5 handprints.

4. Roll each piece of dough one by one, into a circular

shape about 2 cm thick.

5. Once the dough discs are rolled out, have each

person push their hand into the centre of the dough,

then lift carefully. This will reveal a handprint in the

dough. If desired, decorate your keepsake with shells

or rocks from the beach.

6. Leave the finished designs to dry out in the sun or

inside. This may take up to 2 days!

Using the same mixture, try to create some starfish!

1 1/2 cups plain flour

1 1/4 cups salt

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Glitter Sand on Page 6

Yarn

Cardstock paper

Craft glue

Scissors

Paint brushes (optional)

1. Apply craft glue to your cardstock paper with a paint brush or your fingers.

2. Cut different lengths of yarn to create shapes and make a landscape or design (mountains, beach, star etc.)

3. Sprinkle sand onto the design using a spoon or your finger tips.

4. Apply more glue if the first coat has dried!

5. When the artwork is dry, shake off any excess sand.

6. Apply more glue and sand if any empty patches remain.

7. Add other elements to the art work such as leaves or shells.

If this craft is a little too challenging, you can skip the

yarn! Focus instead on sprinkling the sand on the glue!

SPF for sunscreen stands for “sun protecting factor”

and is a relative measure of how long a sunscreen will

protect you from ultraviolet rays of the sun to prevent a

sunburn! Wearing a white cotton shirt is equivalent to

SPF 7. Cool!

Create a name collage using various objects found at the

beach. When you’ve finished creating all of the letters in

your name, take a picture!

Sand

Shells

Pebbles

Twigs

Rocks

Feathers

Leaves

Towels

Beach ball

Lifeguard ring

Life jacket

Water wings

Shovel

Sand pail

Beach toys

Sunglasses

Sunscreen

Flip flops/shoes

Try writing out your full name including your first, middle

and last name! Can you find enough objects to spell it

out?

If you want to use multi-colour sand or glitter sand,

complete the “Multi-colour sand” and “Glitter Sand”

activities first!

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Towels

Instruction:

1. Begin the game on the sand near the water!

2. Tie several beach towels together to create a rope (or use one towel if there is just two players).

3. Divide players into two teams and draw a line in the sand to divide the two sides.

4. Position the towel rope so there is an even length on both sides of the dividing line.

5. Hand the ends of the rope to each team and show them how to pull. The object of the game is to pull the other team across the line.

The worlds largest indoor water park is called Tropical

Islands Resort in Krausnick, Germany. This one’s so

big, it’s built on an old military airfield. containing a

man-made tropical rainforest of over 50,000

plants. How cool!

The World’s longest water slide stretches a whopping

3,645 feet long. The ride snakes through the

undergrowth of the rainforest at ESCAPE theme park

located in Penang, Malaysia. To get to the top, you

need to take a chair lift! Would you go down this water

slide?

2 buckets

Cups

1. Set up buckets on the beach apart from one another and at a far distance from the water.

2. Start in the water. On go, fill the cup with water and race your opponent to pour it into your bucket. The object of the game is to fill your bucket before your opponents fill theirs. Try to keep the water from spilling!

If you are using a plastic disposable cup, try poking a

hole in the bottom of the cup. Try and see how much

water you can get in your bucket with water leaking out

of your cup. No plugging the hole with your finger!

It can take as little as 15 minutes for skin to burn in the

sun! Sunburns are not immediately apparent. Redness

starts to show up around 3-5 hours after being in the

sun and peaks 12-24 hours after sun exposure.

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Sponges

2 buckets

1. Split the players into two teams.

2. Each team has two buckets and an extra-large sponge.

3. Fill one of the buckets with water and put it a few metres in front of the empty bucket.

4. One player from each team takes a sponge, runs down to the full bucket, fills the sponge with water and runs back to the empty bucket to squeeze as much water as possible into the bucket.

5. The next player then goes and so forth just like a relay.

6. The team with the most water in their bucket after 2 minutes (the bucket that started out empty) wins.

A relay race is a racing competition where members of

a team take turns completing parts of racecourse or

performing a certain action. There is even relay races

in the Olympics!

1. One player is chosen as "Marco", who with closed eyes, tries to find and tag any one of the other players, relying on hearing to find someone to tag.

2. Marco shouts “Marco” and the other players must all respond by shouting "Polo", which "Marco" uses to try to find them.

3. Make sure to play this near the shore in shallow water to stay safe!

To make this game even more fun, you can

incorporate the “fish out of water rule”. “Fish-out-of-

water” allows non-It players to exit the water to avoid

being tagged. If, however, It should happen to catch

that player out of the water by yelling “Fish out of

water,” that player then becomes it.

The game Marco Polo is a form of tag played in a

swimming pool. The origin of the game is an

unfortunate accident with the Italian Marco Polo and

his family. When heading home on a ship with his

father and uncle, they sailed into a foggy storm. In the

chaos of the storm and the thickness of the fog, Marco

Polo fell off the ship. Realizing this, his family called

out, “Marco!” He replied with “Polo!” By doing so, they

located Marco and so the game was born.

Try making your own relay course at home with

different components to the race like an obstacle

course, running, biking and divide them up between

your team! How fast can you complete the race?

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Baking soda

White vinegar

Powdered tempera paint

Paper cups

Shells

Pipette

1. Mix equal parts of baking soda and powdered tempera paint in a small paper cup.

2. Add one shell to the center of your mixture.

3. Fill your pipette with vinegar.

4. Use your pipette to drop the vinegar onto the shell and dry mixture. NOTE: You can also pour a full tablespoon of vinegar directly on the powdered mixture to really get things bubbling!

5. Once vinegar is added to the bowl, the concoction will start to bubble and erupt!

6. The shell is being painted by the colourful bubbles inside the cup.

7. When the bubbling subsides, use a spoon to fish out the colourful shell.

8. Repeat this process to paint all your shells!

9. Place the shells on a paper towel to dry.

Shell patterns and colours have engineering purposes! They often display a wide array of colors and unique patterns. However, it turns out those beautiful designs aren’t only for show. WOW! Scientists believe that mollusks use these patterns and colours as engineering blueprints. The design lets animals figure out where to place their shells, ensuring that they grow in the right spots.

Paper towel

Spoon

Leave them out overnight and you’ll be greeted in the morning with some beautiful and vibrant shells.

Colourful glitter

Bowl

Spoon

Sand

1. Pour equal amounts of sand and glitter into a bowl.

2. Mix the sand and the glitter together.

3. You can mix more than one colour of glitter together! (ex: mix red and blue to make purple etc.).

Have you ever looked closely at sand? Sand is made of

rocks and minerals that have eroded into fine,

minuscule grains. Large quantities of sand is often

found on coastlines and in desert areas. If you look

closely, sand looks like little pieces of glitter already!

In the past, glitter has also been made from glass and

insects, and is now generally made from plastic with the

addition of aluminium, iron oxide, titanium dioxide or

other reflective ingredients.

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Wyevale Jug City

With friendly and helpful staff, a clean and tidy store, and the

best soft serve ice cream in the area, Wyevale Jug City is the

one stop shop for your daily needs and sweet-tooth cravings!

Shovels

Sand scraper

Buckets

Paper and pencil

Carving tools from your kitchen (straws, spatula)

1. Start with a design session at home before you head to the beach.

2. Talk about sand castles and castles in general. What books or movies have the coolest castles? What features should your castle have? Will you build a moat? A drawbridge? A tower? All of the above?

3. Design your ideal sand castle. Draw a picture together or have everyone draw his or her own version and figure out how to merge all ideas into one giant castle.

4. Mix water and sand to build your masterpiece! Wet sand makes it easy to mold and carve your castle.

5. Try carving little details to your castle! Here are some carving details: • Start at the top so that any loose sand doesn’t spoil the carving you’ve already done. • Use a paintbrush or straw to brush or blow away unwanted sand. • Go slowly as you carve, since it’s not that easy to replace the sand if you make a mistake.

6. After you’ve created your castle, the fun part begins! You can decorate your castle the way you want!

7. This part of the building process is an adventure in itself! Start gathering decorations before you leave home and continue once you’re at the beach. Since you have your design, discuss what sorts of things you want to include in, on and around your sand castle (see activity below for more decoration ideas).

See Page 11 on fun ways to decorate your sand castle!

Ever wonder why wet sand builds better sand castles?

Wet sand is adherent if the proper amounts of sand

and water are used in the mixture. The reason for this

is that water forms little "bridges" between the grains of

sand when it is damp due to the forces of surface

tension. When the sand dries out or gets wet, the

shape of a structure may change, and "landslides" are

Sand

Water

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Tooth picks

Ribbon

Glitter

Shells

Pinecones

Paint brushes

Glue

Plastic or paper bag

1. While you walk to the beach and when you're at the beach, you can gather up some decor for your sand castle (use your plastic bag or paper bag to collect all your decorations).

2. Try to find certain materials from outside that you would like to include in your masterpiece and decorate them with glitter or paint!

3. For example; If you want a flag for the castle, use a toothpick and ribbon. Do you need seashells or rocks to decorate your arches and bridges? Let your imagination run wild as you explore your home and then the beach for treasures.

To make the best structure possible, involve your family in every step of the build.

There is a new Guinness World Record for tallest

sandcastle as of June, 2019. It was 57' 11" tall, and

was made by Skulptura Projects (in Binz, Germany).

This massive structure took over one month to build

and it is meant to resemble a castle from Game of

Thrones. COOL!

Wooden skewer

Pool noodle piece (half circle)

Construction paper

Scissors

1. Stick the skewer into the pool noodle so that the rounded edge of the noodle faces downwards.

2. Cut out a rectangle from your construction paper. This will become a sail.

3. Decorate your sail using markers or crayons!

4. Make two identical holes in your sail, one at the top and one at the bottom.

5. Slide your skewer through the holes.

6. Use your new boat to decorate your sand castle!

Starboard and port are nautical terms which describe

the right (starboard) and left (port) sides when facing

the front (bow) of a ship or boat. The back of the boat

is called the stern.

Because we used a pool noodle for the bottom of our

boat, it should float

Sticks

Rocks

Shells

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Paper towels

1 teaspoon food colouring

Tray, plate or newspaper (for drying the sand)

Mixing Bowl

Food colouring

1 cup dry sand

1. Place the sand into a bowl and add a few drops of food colouring.

2. Using the flat part of a large spoon, make large strokes over the sand to blend the colour evenly. Stir and repeat large stroke actions.

3. Add a little more food colouring if needed to achieve the desired colour.

4. Place the damp sand onto a paper towel and plate or newspaper.

5. Using a large spoon, spread the wet sand out evenly to dry.

6. Place the wet sand in a sunny place to air dry. If the sand is still wet, gently move the sand around to expose the wetter parts of the sand to dry out.

7. When the sand is dry, gently rub the sand between your fingers to break up any clumps that may be stuck together.

8. Coloured sand will last for several years if stored correctly in an air-tight container or zip-lock bag.

Sand comes in many colours. It all depends on what

minerals make up the sand. Our beaches are made of

hard quartz (silica) which has the colour of, well sand!

It's usually light tan (but if you look really closely you

will see flecks of white, black, brown and pink). Tropical

beaches (like Hawaii) are whiter because they are

made up of calcium carbonate (which is just the broken

down skeletons of coral and other marine life). The

"black" sands of Santorini, Greece are black due to the

red and black volcanic lava rocks that make up their

beaches.

You can use this multicolored sand to make the sand art

on page 3!

In Canada, we have beaches with red sand located in

Prince Edward Island. The red comes from oxidized

iron; in other words, rust. The soil and sandstone in PEI

are iron rich. When they are exposed to air, the iron

oxidizes and assumes that red colour.

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