Recommendation for the Best Beach Toys and Sand Toys
for Toddlers and Children
Best beach toys and sand toys might be the ones you need to spice up your kid's summer beach adventure. There are actually a lot of kinds of
beach and sand toys, and if you live in a decent-size city, you'll find the standard beach toys such as buckets, shovels and so forth easily at your local stores.
However, if you want to find an even better and unique selection of children's sand toys, you should
venture online. A lot of unique beach and sand toys are only carried by online specialty toy stores and therefore are likely not to be available locally.
In this
page are recommendation for the best children's sand toys or beach toys. Most of them are only available online.
1. Sand Castle Molds.
Finding a decent set of sand castle molds locally can be tricky. I find that most, if not all, sand castle mold from local department stores are very basic, consisting of may be one castle tower mold and another one castle wall mold, along with a sand bucket and sand scoop toys. Therefore, if you want to get a good set of sand castle mold
which will produces a beautiful castle like what you see below, you'll most likely have to go online.
For preschoolers and children who want to
create a more intricate castle, I recommend the Sand Bucket and Forms. The kit contains tools, molds
and an instruction from a sand sculpture artist on how to create a stable and beautiful castle like the one you see on the left.
This children's sand toy is so unique that it is
included in Parent's Choice 25 Best Toys Awards. Sand Bucket and Forms is available online
here
.
Finally your children can jazz up the castleby adding spires using a unique sand funnel
. Although sand or water funnel is very easy to get locally, the castle funnel I recommend is unique in that it is designed
such that you can put both water and sand at different compartments in the funnel, which then results in a drippy mixture resembling what is coming out of the cake icing
funnel. This special funnel enables your kids to make spires for the castles they make, writing their names on the sand, or making
a unique sand cake icing. You can get the special sand funnel here
2. Sand Play Tower.
Sandmill is one of the best beach toys your children can have. This beach and sand toy can be used with either water or sand. If your children is fond of sandmill type of toy,
have a look at Sand Play Tower. It is, in my opinion, like sandmill in steroid.
As opposed
to the usual sandmill where the sand merely goes down from the hole at the top straight to the mill underneath it and therefore move the mill, with the Sand Play Tower, the sand will go through
different sift and tunnels before it finally reaches the bottom of the tower.
Your kids will be engrossed
in designing their own sand or water cascade. This children's beach toy is available here
.
3. Sandmill or watermill.
Sandmill or sand wheel is a popular toddler's beach toys. Children put sand or water on the hole on top of the toys, and it will drip, moving the wheel.
One of the best, yet affordable sandmill is made by Small World Toys. The toy is big and the double wheels are turned easily even with the smallest amount
of sand. You can get it here for 35% OFF.
4. Sand Water Park
Sand water park by HABA is one of the unique and best beach toys. With this kit, your children will be able to design their own
rivers and dam. A functional sand shovel toy is also included to make moving the sand around a breeze. This set is available here
.
5. Sand Dumping Trucks and Other Sand Dumping Toys
Children generally loves digging and dumping the sand. And what is the better place to dump and dig the sand than the beach ?
Sand dumping toys, therefore, are one of the best beach toys you can get for your children, especially if you have the younger crowds.
With sand dumping toys, children will enjoy loading up the toy with sand and dumping it back.
There are a few different kinds of sand dumping toys which children love:
- Sand Bucket and Tool set.
Sand bucket and tool set are the best beach toys for diggging and dumping activities, especially for toddlers and young children. These popular toddler beach
toys are available widely. However, if your local stores do not have a nice set of it, you can have a look at this
Sand Bucket and Tool Set.
This set is contains a few different sand molds, a bucket, a sand sifters, along with a few
different tools such as little sand shovel toy and rake. At around $15, this set, in my opinion, is priced well. It's available here.
.
- Dumping trucks.
These toddler beach toys are available widely, both in department stores and toy stores.
There are usually a few choices of sand dumping trucks of various sizes
from your local department stores. However, I recommend the one from the Green Toys because it's big enough,
roll easily on the sand, sturdy and is frequently on sale. Currently, it's on sale at 20% OFF here.
- Serious sand shovel toys.
Although most kid love digging and dumping, we all know that sand shovel toys which are available as part of a bucket and tool set is more like a sand scoop. These beach shovel toys won't move
a lot of sand. If your children are not satisfied with a simple sand shovel toy commonly available locally, you can try to get a
serious beach shovel toy carried by Magic Cabin
This big, durable and functional sand shovel toy does a great job moving
mountains of sand while at the same time is suitable for children.
6. Shell Collecting Bags.
If your children love collecting shells at the beach, don't forget to get these shell-collecting bags
which will enable your children
to collect shell without collecting the sand.
7. Beach ball and frisbee.
Beach ball and frisbee are real classic children and toddler's beach toys. I will not give you recommendation online for a beach ball and frisbee since it's very easy to find a beach ball or frisbee at any local department store. Just make sure that when
you go to the beach you don't forget to bring along the ball and frisbee with you.
Finally, I hope you and your children enjoy the beach trip with the above recommendation of best beach toys.
PS: If you need recommendation on how to enable your children to play sand at home, click here.
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