GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – One of the highlights of the show is the giant sandbox, known as The Beach, and over the weekend it will be transformed into amazing sand sculptures. The woman behind the ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Inside Science) -- Beach-goers know that sand castles crumble almost as quickly as they are built, but scientists have long faced the mystery of why similarly-constructed earthen buildings can stand ...

RACINE - Tar paper, tamper and trowels. When you're asked to create a sand sculpture, tools such as these can come in handy. Funger's Bunch, led by Jim "Funger" Unger of Racine, found tar paper ...