Games for toddlers at the beach

You can put a number in front of each of them to give them points… The furthest hole will earn the most points. Discover our beach investigation game for kids presented briefly at the beginning of this article. All the children get together to find it and search for the culprit. Quickly resolve this mysterious case using the investigation sheet attached to the file. You can of course build a sandcastle with your family.

Indeed, place the material at the disposal of all. Stand each a few meters apart. You will have previously chosen a theme in advance such as animals, castles or snowmen… Everyone must then, in a given time, make a construction in sand on the chosen theme.

At the end of regular time, each participant votes for the achievement he prefers but is not entitled to vote for his own construction. Whoever has the most votes wins the contest! As a bonus, plan a small gift for the winner! Again, nothing could be easier than using wet sand to organize a beach activity. A little in the same principle, the child will have to draw in the sand using his fingers a drawing and the other child or adult will have to guess what it is. A simple but very fun game that allows you to enjoy the joys of the beach by organizing slightly different games.

Go looking for seashells on the beach and collect them in your bucket… When you get home, you will wash and dry them. You can then do many activities with these shells… Indeed, you can make pretty necklaces, decorate beautiful boxes, paint seashells and make pretty animals like a sea turtle or a crab. You can also create tables where you will form a drawing using seashells that you will paste.

You can also assemble the shells to create characters and represent your family… In short, there are many ideas for activities to do with children using pretty shells! It will take a minimum of 4 people to make 2 teams of 2.

One child from each team will sit on the beach at the edge of the water with a bucket between the legs… The other 2 children will have to go into the water with each a container of identical size as for example the size of a plastic glass. These last 2 will have to come and go in the water and come fill the bucket of their partner… When the bucket is half filled, the children change roles.

The first team to fill their bucket wins. Here is a fun beach game for kids to build with which the children will take the time to play then. Build a circuit… For that, it is enough to dig lightly the wet sand and to form a path. You can make intersections, climbs, descents, bridges, tunnels, paths that separate and join. Of course, think about the finish line and the start line.

You will just have to provide marbles to then use the course… You can also use it with small cars. Take 2 empty plastic bottles and fill them with water… Draw 2 lines parallel to the ground in the sand and each player will stand next to it, on the starting line. This game is played on dry sand, each player has a bottle filled with water in his hand… At the starting signal, the children will have to move forward by tilting their bottle so as to let a trickle of water run over the sand.

As soon as the bottle is empty, the child stops. Whoever knows how to dose his water well and who leaves the longest trace in the sand wins the game. Try it in the sand. Make it tighter, make it better. Children love aim games, and on the beach, you can bring variations. Feel free to make as many variations as you want to the games.

The criterion is to see the kids play on the beach and enjoy themselves. Mini Golf Let your child bring out their inner Phil Mickelson and spend a day at the sandy links. Pick up a plastic set of clubs and balls at your local dollar store or improvise with what you have on hand at the beach. Substitute a plain old game of frisbee with frisbee golf.

Set up targets using items you brought to the beach could be a picnic blanket, an umbrella, a towel, or you could even dig a hole in the sand to aim at. Take turns trying to throw your frisbee as close to the target as you can. Make sure smaller kids are allowed to stand closer to the target than the bigger ones to keep frustration levels to a minimum. Kids love relay races, and at the beach the old egg and spoon race can be replaced with a water bucket relay.

Give each child a plastic cup, spoon, or large shell and have them run to the water, fill their carrying implement, and race to empty it in a bucket. Kids love the challenge of trying to keep the water from spilling before they get it into their bucket. Kites can be purchased in toy stores, dollar stores, or made by kids before the beach visit.

The limbo dance originated in Trinidad in the s. Bring it to the 21st century with a fun beach version. After each child has succeeded at a certain height of the bar, lower it again and again. If you can play music without disturbing other vacationers, pick a selection of fun beach tunes. Line up empty bottles or bring your own dollar store plastic pins and balls. Remember to let the smaller kids line up closer to the pins. Depending on the ages of the kids playing, a real volleyball and net can be set up.

For the smaller set, a beach ball and a towel are great substitutes. Try to count the number of times you can get the ball back and forth. Divide the kids and adults into two teams. Make sure the middle of the rope is right over a line drawn in the sand. Hand the ends of the rope to each team and show them how to pull. Be prepared to end up in the water! Kids can work together or compete against each other in this fun game.

Give each child a beach ball and squirt gun or spray bottle and have them stand across a line drawn in the sand. Each child has to squirt their ball with all of their might to get it across another line down the beach. Bring the popular hopping game to the beach! Using a stick or rock, draw a grid on the sand and use rocks or shells for markers. Kids love parachute games. Adults love parachute games. So grab a large beach towel and a beach ball, hold the ends and sides of the towel with the ball in the middle of the towel, and see how high that ball can bounce.

Aim for the sky! Have two kids or adults hold the ends of a skipping rope down on the sand. Warning: this game may trigger squeals of fun. A beach is a great wide space to blow and chase bubbles. And if the bubble juice spills on your bathing suit, simply head for the water to wash yourself off. The dollar store is a great source for multiple shapes and sizes of bubble blowers and bubble juice, or you can make your own bubble blowers and juice at home before you head to the beach.

Bocce ball is so simple for all ages to learn and to play. Players then throw their weighted balls and the one who gets their ball closest to the target wins a point. The game continues until a certain number of points are reached. What could be more Canadian than building a beautiful inukshuk? So it has been challenging for us in the past to keep them off the water.

But this year we have a plan. We came up with super fun beach games that are active, playful, easy to set up and just simply fun. Take a look at the video first. Beach Games For Kids 1. Beach volleyball. Kids love playing volleyball, but many times it's impossible because they are too small for the net. So we build our own. You only need couple of taller sticks walk around your beach area and you might get lucky and find some and a beach towel.

Then you simply tie the towel corners to the sticks we used rope that we had in the car and spread the sticks apart. You got yourself a voelleyball net. Now start playing. Beach trash target shooting.