In the summer, when you are on vacation at some seaside resort, you, of course, want to gain more vivid impressions, replenish strength, and sometimes just feel like a seal lying on the beach. This is easy to implement if you are relaxing with a group of adults or yourself. But when young children have a rest together, simply wallowing in the sand will not be limited. Such a vacation will quickly bore your child, and he will require you to come up with some interesting activity. To occupy the child, tell and show him how to make sand castles.
Children love this type of entertainment very much - you can feel like a real builder using the simplest materials: sand, sea water and your own hands. Sand castles are easy to build in the surf - where the sand is not dry, but not too wet. To do this, you can use molds for sand, or you can build a construction of absolutely fantastic shapes from droplets of sand-water mixture.
To teach your child how to build sand castles in a drip way, dig a small well near the wave line so that the waves do not reach it, but it quickly fills with water. After that, draw sand with your palm, dip it into the water of the well, and when the resulting slurry begins to flow through your fingers, begin to lay the base of the future castle near the well with drops. Thus, a fragile patterned structure will grow layer by layer on the "shore" of the well. Due to the fact that the size of the drops can be adjusted with your fingers, such locks can be decorated with beautiful openwork towers. Children usually quickly get involved in such a process, and it is almost impossible to tear them away from such construction.
But did you know that sand castles are not only children's beach fun? The fact is that since 1989 a sand sculpture festival has been held in the Canadian town of Harrison Hot Springs. Sand castles, photos of which are presented at this festival, will amaze any imagination. There, this type of creativity does not seem to anyone to be childish fun.
Masters who participate in such competitions take their works seriously. For example, they accurately calculated the proportions at which a sand and water solution has the best characteristics so that sand castles are durable. It turned out that the structure was strong, you need to take 1 part of water for 8 parts of sand. In addition, they pay increased attention to the quality and shape of sand grains - not every sand is suitable for construction. And the art of making sand sculptures has long been divided into two schools - purists and innovators. The former refuse to use auxiliary tools, formwork, supporting structures in their sculptures. The second actively use the engineering approach in the construction of castles.
Suffice it to say that sand castles, built by craftsmen, sometimes reach up to fifteen meters high. But perhaps after reading this article you yourself will be interested in such an unusual hobby. And your sand castles will be even higher.