Crafts using sand dollars

Collecting sand dollars on the beach can be a fun and exciting activity, but they often look dull from all their time spent in the salty ocean water. Learn how to carefully clean and preserve these delicate treasures and turn them into...

Spring Breaking to the Beach. 3 sand dollar crafts to make out of your collected sea shells from Spring Break Trip with the Kids.

The sand dollar—AKA "sea biscuit" or "sand cake"—is purple and hairy in its prime. See nine things you didn't know about these fascinating creatures.

Sand dollars are a flat species of sea urchin that regularly wash up on shore and can be painted to create awesome trinkets. If you are getting fresh sand dollars from the beach, you'll have to clean and prepare them before they are ready...

Easy steps to clean, bleach, and preserve your seaside find Sand dollars can be used to make beautiful decorations and crafts, but first, they need to be hardened so they don't break. Hardening sand dollars is a fast and simple process...

There's nothing that says summer more than a seashell. Just seeing one calls to mind the bright sun and the call of seagulls. Maybe you remember collecting them on the shore, and if you were lucky, maybe you found yourself a perfect specimen. Of course, if you don't live by a coast, you might not […]

Spring Breaking to the Beach. 3 sand dollar crafts to make out of your collected sea shells from Spring Break Trip with the Kids.

Did you know that painting with watercolors on sand dollars produces a really neat effect? I didn't until the other day when my kids and I spent a morning painting. Lately, I've tried to maximize our fun to clean-up ratio by saving messy art for times when we have two or three full hours to devote to the fun. So, the other day, I covered our kitchen table with a drop cloth and we spent the morning finding everything and anything our imaginations could think of to paint on and with. That…

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Learn how to decoupage and make sand dollar ornaments/ door knob tassels. These special handmade sand dollars are unique and the perfect gift or coastal decor for your own home and appropriate for all year round decor. This calming activity (I learned during the pandemic when not working for the first time) includes shells for decoupage and everything you need to get started with this fun, new hobby. It’s truely therapeutic. This kit has everything you need to decoupage shells for gifting or…