Build Sandcastles – Tips From The Pros When building sandcastles, there are list of materials that you need to have to create simple sandcastles and these are obviously the sand and water but also, some carving and digging tools. The first and at the same time, most important thing you need to know with regards to sand is that, you couldn’t do anything with it unless, it is wet. The real reason behind this is that when you add water to the sand, the liquid will start forming bridges that connect the granules of sand together, which is also the same reason why damp sands stick together and let you to carve and to shape it in any way you want. Packing down or tamping wet sand, drains quickly, which allows you to make even shorter bridges and a more solid clump. Sand after being compacted in this matter could be subjected to extreme carving.
When building sandcastles, you must use lots of water. First thing you must do is to dry the sand back to their natural state. It must lie down and needs to spread out to all kinds of crannies and nooks. Good thing is that, as long as you’re keeping the gravity work for you, there is no need for you to add lots of water, that will bring us to the next step.
You are going to see the importance of this rule if you tried making the base of your sandcastle by filling plastic bucket using wet sand and then try to unmold it. The sand will result to a sticking, sucking, vacuum seal with plastic and it is going to be hard or if not, impossible for you to remove the bucket without a place for the excess water to be drained. This is why professional sand sculptors aren’t using plastic buckets or any other type of closed mould but, building the shapes by stacking their hands to the wet sand or, by tamping it down. And as soon as you are through with this, you must then compact the wet sand in order to form the structure that you want. You may use either your feet or hands or a tamper to compact the wet sand in this process. In the event that you are building sandcastles at the beach, the best way to have unlimited water supply is to dig a self replenishing water hole. Don’t stop digging until you find that water supply you need. It isn’t important how wide the hole you dug as you’re aiming for the depth and not for the width. The hole is going to get wider and wider as you are pulling wet sands from its depth.
