Growing up in Colorado, Calvin Seibert spent a lot of time at construction sites. Back then, the artist was thousands of miles away from an ocean, but that didn’t stop him from building castles out of ...

Is building an impregnable sand castle on your family’s summer bucket list? Ted Siebert of The Sand Sculpture Co. (sandsculpting.com) can dig you out of the holes in your technique. Siebert, who wrote ...

CONEY ISLAND, N.Y. -- The beach is empty. It's 7:45 a.m. Along comes Matt Long and his wheelbarrow full of tools and buckets, ready to create magic on the sands of Coney Island. For the last 15 years, ...

Janel Hawkins spends hours building intricate structures — and destroys them not long after. Such is the life of a professional sand castle builder. As the owner of Sand Castle University, she spends ...

Castles, creatures and wild creations will emerge from the sand at Hunting Island during the 8th annual sand sculpture contest on Saturday sponsored by the Friends of Hunting Island. It's free and ...

GRAND HAVEN, MI -- Four grown men can make a better sand castle than all of the children in Michigan. Castle Grande, a Saturday event sponsored by the Grand Haven Chamber of Commerce brought a ...

Look for sand that sticks together. This makes it fit for building and carving. Form a castle foundation With a shovel, create a sand pile to serve a base. Pat it down and soak with plenty of water.

Brendan Schaffer, of Cape May, works on his crab sculpture during the Wildwood Crest Sand Sculpting Festival, Friday, July 12, 2019. (Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Conditions were perfect ...

As building blocks go, pancakes fall low on the list. But a successful sand castle, I learned, starts with pancakes. A tall stack. Turns out those plastic molds I had packed with sand — only to dump ...

OUTER BANKS, North Carolina (WRAL) — Thousands of families visit the Outer Banks to climb the incredible sand dunes at Jockey’s Ridge each year. Many have no idea, however, what’s hidden beneath the ...