Preserving sand dollars

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.

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

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...

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...

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

Learn how to safely clean and preserve sand dollars.

While not a museum-quality technique for stabilizing and preserving fossils and finds, a coating of glue and water can help strengthen and protect your seashore finds. I use it on sand dollars, sea biscuits, pottery shards, and more.

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...

Collecting sand dollars is rewarding. They have striking shapes and designs and can be used for craft projects or displayed in a room. However, sand dollars picked up from the beach will be dirty. Before you use them for decor items, you'll need to clean and preserve them.

Scattered along the beaches of both the East and the West Coast, you sometimes see hard, flat discs with a faint five-pointed star pattern on one side. Although they seem like chalk or compacted sand, they are actually the *tests*, or skeletons, of a type of sea creature called a sand dollar. Shell collectors prize sand dollars for their beauty, but you need to handle them carefully to take one home intact.