Painting on sand dollars

Painted 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...

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…

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 […]