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Fun Ways to Play with Kinetic Sand

by Angela Thayer 3 Comments

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. 

Have you ever played with kinetic sand? It is the coolest sensory material! Kinetic sand feels so awesome that it’s hard to stop playing with it. There are some homemade ways to make kinetic sand, or you can buy kinetic sand at the store (or here on Amazon.)

Kinetic Sand

Kinetic sand is fun to play with. It’s great to touch, squeeze, and hold. Kinetic Sand is a mixture of sand and polymers and so it feels like no other sensory material I’ve ever played with. When you hold it, it moves and falls through your fingers. It feels like what I think quicksand would feel like!! My kids can spend hours playing with this stuff, so I highly recommend getting some for you kids to play with!

Playing with kinetic sand

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hands

sand

While it’s fun to just hold it and squeeze it in your hands, there are other ways to play with kinetic sand.

Fun Ways to Play with Kinetic Sand

You can place kinetic sand in molds. Our Kinetic Sand came with molds to put the sand into. You can also place it in cups or buckets and make a sand castle out with the cylinder molds.

Kinetic Sand in Molds

It’s fun to stamp magnetic letters in the sand to create words. They make a great imprint!

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We made a track by just molding the kinetic sand in a wide line. We also used a fork to make lines down it. Then we drove cars down it!

kinetic sand 1

car

We poked straws in the kinetic sand to make designs!

straws

We even made these sand tubes when we pushed sand through the mini-straws!

straws and kinetic sand

It’s really easy to make clean looking shapes when you use cookie cutters on kinetic sand.

Kinetic Sand 2

Kinetic Sand has some awesome benefits:

  • Very easy to clean up, which is why I let my kids play with it indoors.
  • Nontoxic and microbial
  • Kids AND adults enjoy playing with it
  • Will never dry out! I do recommend keeping it in a container with a lid to keep dust away

Do you have kinetic sand yet?? If not, what are you waiting for! Go out and get some today!

This was day 24 of the 31 Days of Play Series. To see all the activities, visit here.

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  1. Jill Dushey says

    January 26, 2015 at 1:00 am

    Yes we have!! My kids can’t get enough of the kinetic sand. I keep it in a 12×12 scrapbook paper box with the lid so they can play IN the box lol.
    I recommend the kinetic sand to all my friends!

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    • Angela Thayer says

      February 2, 2015 at 2:55 am

      That’s an awesome idea!! Thanks for sharing!
      Angela Thayer recently posted…Homemade Silly PuttyMy Profile

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