Crafts using sand dollars

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...

Learn how to clean sand dollars from the beach using household items! You'll have clean, sparkling sand dollars to use in crafts and projects. Click to learn the secrets to cleaning and preserving them, along with how to responsibly choose which sand dollars to take home.

#DIY watercolor sand dollars by makingmondays

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...

I made my coastal seashell wall art with the leftover cane from another project and a handful of seashells I had. One challenge I have in living here on the coast is that my collection of seashells continue to grow. To the extent that I’m running out of reasonable ways to display them. I fear...Read More »

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.

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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...

Sand Dollars are one of my favorite things to find on the beach. It takes more work than finding shells but it's well worth it.