Made sandcastles.

When we arrived at the beach it took a couple of parents to off load the 'making a sand castle' equipment.

• A free standing open tent.
• Sun screen 
• Drink bottles
• Buckets
• Spades.
• Spray bottles
• Pre-made shapes

After using lots of sunscreen every participant went for a long walk.  The challenge was to gather stones, seaweed, shells, rubbish like straws,twigs, and plastics utensils  to fill the bucket every one had with them.

When we arrived back everyone

• could choose one thing to show everyone else.
• This was their special decoration for them to place on the finished sandcastle.
• emptied the rest of their bucket into one share pile.

The area chose was flattened out further. and water from the buckets [to be gathered] would further flatten the sand castle floor. 

Now was the time to go to the sea and fill the bucket up with water in preparation for the water that would be needed to dampen the sand used to build our sandcastle.  For the adults and older Guides this water collection was on on going activity... ALL DAY.

A wave wall between the sea and the proposed sandcastle was made.    What we noticed was that as the sandcastle got bigger the wall got larger in size.  The wave wall also made a perimeter that the Guides were able to co-work together once there own sandcastle was made.

Another thing we noticed was that many adults had forgotten how to make sandcastles.  Watching the younger Guides go for it brought many things back.  And then we found this video when we got back!

References  The Wilderness Society - Sandcastles for Sanctuaries