Beach Activities for Kids: Crafts, Maths, STEM, and Writing
Check out our bumper list of beach activities for kids. We have beach activities for 1-3 year olds, activities for 4-7 year old and activities for 8-11 year olds! We have organised them into curriculum areas so that whatever area you are going to focus on you will have lots of sandy inspiration! Throughout the post you will find links to either useful blog posts we have found online or resources on our website.
Beach Crafts
Who doesn’t love a good craft? Check out this list of 10 beach-themed crafts.
- Make your own pebble family picture
- Draw pictures in the sand with a stick
- Collect driftwood and make a sculpture
- Collect shells and make a necklace
- Use a shell to make a salt dough fossil
- Paint pebbles
- Make your own game of 0’s and X’s
- Collect sand to make a textured picture
- Make a beach sensory bottle
- Make a frame with sticks and draw a picture inside it
Beach Maths Activities
This list of 10 activities will give you ideas for how to get in some practical Maths learning.
- Collect, sort and group shells
- Count pebbles
- Make multiplication arrays with pebbles
- Make a tally chart of things found
- Create a driftwood tally chart
- Measure the distance of the beach
- Work out the area of the beach
- Research the tide times: create a timetable
- Make a sundial and tell the time throughout the day with it
- Dig a hole and work out its volume
Beach STEM Activities
Want to try a great STEM activity? Check out this list of 10 beach-themed activities.
- Build a castle with a moat
- Work out how to get water to your castle
- Hunt for fossils
- How tall can you build a sand structure?
- What sand is better for building?
- How deep can you dig a hole?
- How can you stop the sand from falling in?
- Observe sand with a magnifying glass
- Make a beach and shoreline model
- Make and fly a kite
Beach Writing
At Petal Resources, we love a good excuse for writing. Here are our favourite beach themed writing activities:
- Write a beach senses poem
- Describe a beach setting
- Write instructions for making a sand castle
- Write in the sand with a stick
- Make letters in the sand with natural materials
- Create a beach clean-up poster
- Write a beach acrostic poem
- Think of adjectives for sand
- Learn beach themed vocabulary
- Write a story set at the beach
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