When Viola Connelly and her friend Casey Metzler, both 10, enter the annual Saltaire Sandcastle Contest on Fire Island, the girls from Manhattan and Brooklyn choose a timely theme — they craft an ...

SHELBYVILLE — When building a sand castle, it's important you have enough water. “We thought wet sand would work better, but it doesn't,” said Kara Chambers, a first-grader at Main Street School in ...

If you live near a beach, chances are you and your kids have hauled sloshing buckets of seawater to build sandcastles. While visions of turrets, moats, and intricate brickwork might feel out of reach, ...