{"id":22699,"date":"2016-06-06T22:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T05:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22699"},"modified":"2016-06-06T22:47:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T05:47:34","slug":"sand-castles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/sand-castles\/","title":{"rendered":"California Sand Castle Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/carlsbchf.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pictured is a sand sculpture at a\u00a0beach festival in California<\/p>\n<p>This weekend the popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/alameda-sandcastle-contest.html\">Alameda Sand Castle and Sculpture Contest<\/a> at\u00a0Robert Crown Memorial State Beach invites youngsters and\u00a0adults to get creative, taking grains of sand and turning them into objects filled with meaning.\u00a0To build taller, better sculptures traditional formulas prescribed approx. 12.5% water (1 bucket of water for 8 buckets of sand.) New research revises the amount of liquid to\u00a01%.\u00a0Put together a toolkit and you&#8217;ll be good to go!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5-gallon bucket for transporting water<\/li>\n<li>Another 5-gallon bucket with buttom cut out for building towers<\/li>\n<li>Shovel for transporting sand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Available at Dollar Tree and discount stores:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spray bottle for water spraying<\/li>\n<li>Trowels<\/li>\n<li>Spatulas for shaping, carving<\/li>\n<li>Melon baller for cutting away sand<\/li>\n<li>Paintbrushes \u00a0for cleaning &amp; shaping<\/li>\n<li>Straws for blowing loose sand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictured is a sand sculpture at a\u00a0beach festival in California This weekend the popular Alameda Sand Castle and Sculpture Contest at\u00a0Robert Crown Memorial State Beach invites youngsters and\u00a0adults to get creative, taking grains of sand and turning them into objects filled with meaning.\u00a0To build taller, better sculptures traditional formulas prescribed approx. 12.5% water (1 bucket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22699"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}