Suggestions from our visitors from around the world, fun things to on holiday ot at the beach.
- Investigate what’s living in the tide pools.
- Bring some board games (chess, backgammon, snakes and ladders) and spend some fun time challenging your friends.
- Build a sand boat to sit in
- Play with seaweed. Sweep the sand with it, shape it into something or just run it through your fingers.
- Bury a friend’s body in the sand and start making funny shapes, like a mermaid, and take funny pictures of them!
- Grab a fistful of really, really wet sand and build a drip castle.
- Use that swing on the beach you haven’t used in years. Remember? It was the best feeling ever.
- If you’re with your friends, then have a Limbo dance competition! You’ll just need some music and lots of your moves!
- Collect seashells.
- Fly a kite.
- Instead of walking your dog, why not enjoy a game of Frisbee with each other? Just make sure the beach you’re heading to allows pets!
- Go Hiking
- Go Window Shopping at the Little Seaside Shops
- Try digging to China!
- Make a friend into a sand mermaid by covering their legs with a sand tail.
- a picnic.
- Take advantage of the good weather and start squatting, lunging and working-out. Believe me, it will be your best workout during the summertime.
- Start a treasure hunt, hide things in the sand everywhere around you, write hints on cards and make your friends start looking.
- Track animal footprints in the sand. Who do they belong to? Where do they lead?
- Catch Up on Phone Calls
- Make a time capsule. Write a memory from the day, or take something you like and put in a box, then bury it somewhere safe, so you can come back next year and find it.
- Lie down and make sand angels.
- Bring your yoga mat to the beach, your music, and start practicing yoga on the beach. End it with a nice long meditation time.
- Since you’re at the beach, then the ultimate fun activity that you can do is to swim in the sea!
- Start water gun fights, and take it to the next level. Invite everyone in and add a twist with a water balloon fight!
- Walk along a jetty.
- Find a few pebbles and see who can throw a rock the farthest out into the water or create the biggest splash.
- Go Surfing
- Climb up and slide down sand dunes.
- Build a Sandcastle
- How about playing an XO game on the sand? This would be a totally fun activity to do at the beach.
- Play Frisbee
- You can have a barbecue party and enjoy the atmosphere, from the music to the food, the view and of course the good company.
- Open a nice cold can of soda with a lot of ice and fight the hot weather!
- Lay back, put on some sun-block, tanning oil and take nap in the sun.
- Are you going to the beach with a large group of friends? Then why not play “Truth or Dare”?
- Watch the sun set.
- Go Fishing
- If you have kids, get a mini inflatable pool, fill it with sea water and let enjoy their time right next to you!
- Bury your feet (or more) in the sand.
- Bring your favorite book to the beach, lay back, relax, take a cold drink and start reading.
- If you’re heading to the beach with kids, get some cake molds, and play sand bakery! Decorate your imaginary cakes with seashells.
- Celebrate a Holiday or Special Occasion
- Another fun activity to do at the beach, is to start building a sandcastle.
- Draw a hopscotch grid with a stick in the sand and play hopscotch.
- Fill a bucket with water. Then empty it. Add sand if you like. Repeat as desired.
- Fly a kite! This could be a fun activity to do at the beach if you have kids with you.
- Body surf the waves.
- Look for Seashells
- Write words in the sand with a stick.
- Lie back on your towel and look for shapes in the clouds.
- Kick, jump, stomp and splash in the water.
- Do some bird watching. Look up, out along the waves and right along the water’s edge.
- Enjoy a big scoop of your favorite flavor of ice-cream.
- Look for Dolphins
- Search for Historic Sites
- Make footprints in the sand.
- Have a Picnic
- Climb the bay watch tower and enjoy the open sea view from up above.
- Take Photographs
- Start a race and make sure to end it by splashing into the water.
- When the water recedes from the shore, chase it. Then turn around and run back when the waves return.
- Write Poetry
- Use a stick, finger or shovel to carve out rivers in the sand. Then fill them with water. Where will the water flow? What happens if you put something in the river?
- Dig a hole in the sand and fill it up with water. Or get inside!
- Relax
- Fill a bucket with water and sand at the shore, then see what ocean treasures you’ve uncovered. Be sure to return all living creatures to the water when you’re done.
- Bring a big floater and lay on it for a tan inside the water, but make sure the floater is attached to something near to the shore so you don’t drift away.
- Have a bucket filling race – using a small cup or bottle to fill each bucket.
- Read Magazines
- Pack a long rope, divide your friends into two groups and start pulling from each side, just like the old days.
- Play on the Boardwalk
- Another fun activity to do at the beach, is to play beach volleyball. It doesn’t have to be professional, you can easily play with a beach ball.
- Make a warm-weather version of a snowman: a sandman!
- You can start learning new sports like surfing, kite surfing, sail surfing, boarding and hover boarding and spend endless time of fun
- Play “Pass the Water.” You’ll just need disposable cups. Fill one cup with sea water, stand in a line each holding an empty cup, and then start passing the water from one cup to the other without spilling the water.