Is it just me

[claire'scherubs]

or am I the only one who HATES sand!!!!!

I feel like I am constantly on the beach, sandy feet and hands, and constantly cleaning it up

They use it in the kitchen, use the kitchen equipment to make cakes etc, so water added to

Its transported from the kitchen to the table in the car, even though Ive placed the table next to the sand tray now

And the amount that ends on the floor then disposed off, cause it can't go back in the tray is going to cost me a fortune.

Random question about disposing of the sand........how do we manage the beach sand, can't see that being cleaned weekly

[muffins]

I REALLY REALLY HATE SAND

So much so that as my sand is so dirty (not been used in a whille) I'm considering getting rid of it instead of replacing it

[Shivvie]

Hate the stuff! We've got some horrible, dark sand at the moment and I hate that more than I ever thought possible!!! The children love it though so I put up with it for their sake, although I must admit, we do have a few weeks periodically without any

[onceinabluemoon]

I love sand!

My mindees get so much out of it cleaning it up doesnt even begin to register, but we have sand in the garden not in the house so maybe its not such a big deal...

[claire'scherubs]

I love sand!

My mindees get so much out of it cleaning it up doesnt even begin to register, but we have sand in the garden not in the house so maybe its not such a big deal...

No its not in the house, its in the open covered area, but I still hate it, sorry I must sound a right scrooge I know, but 5 times today, I've cleaned up........I have a 14 month old that loves it too.......in his mouth!!!!! so I am very particular as to where it is

[SandCastles]

We have had lots of fun sieving the sand and cleaning it today, what I thought would be boring and time consuming, became a laugh as we made it into a treasure hunt game.

We found plastic soilders, pretend jewels with matching necklace, my missing teapot lid, action mens boots, and a sheriffs badge (all lost for a while now)

Ive never really cleaned Sand before, just dumped it and replaced it, but this tread has changed that.

http://childmindinghelp.co.uk/forum/...ad.php?t=80500

Today I love SAND

[funfunfun]

yep !!!

even though its outside it still manages to creep inside and everywhere else

kids love it though

[handeme]

my mindee loves to eat it too, not only sand, mud, flowers, grass you name it he scoffs it

c x

[ZoeAlli]

I don't like sand!
It's not the clear-up or that it gets everywhere, I just don't like the feel of it on my hands or in my feet!!
I have it because the children love it, thankfully my two older dd's are happy to sweep up for me, so I don't have much contact with it.
A friend told me to try mixing a little washing up liquid and water with the sand as it changes the feel (haven't tried it yet as I have only just got new sand ). May try it next week when older children are back to school!

[funemnx]

I have to limit my sand buying - we only have a small garden and the amount that gets spread around it rather than in the sandpit would raise the level of the garden by a couple of feet a year.... hello down therrrrrre!!!!!

[Happy Bunny]

I don't like the stuff, I was quite relieved when quite by accident the sand pit broke LOL.

I am trying to buy a little sand tray now so I don't end up with tons of it all over the garden.

[alwaysright]

oh i hate hate hate sand!! it gets everywere and turns up weeks later......i much prefer gloop-messy but containable-my older ones are into chalk at the moment, i let them cover the outside of the house, walls, fence etc with it then just hose it down.....

[merry]

I loathe sand and won't have it. We have dry pasta and rice, compost or water to play with, mud and soil to dig, cornflour gloop, anthing but sand

[breezy]

Hate it I have one mindee at the mo that wont stop throwing it and "washing" his hair in it

[Hebs]

i dont have sand either

[Rmead]

I don't like it either, I used to complain about it when I was little, my parents always remind me that I proclaimed that the beach had too much sand! My sand has gone really dry at the moment, fine for sieving but not good for sand castles but it does mean it falls off everyone very easily

[mushpea]

I tolerate it but have gone through loads this year already cause I keep forgetting to put the lid on when they come in and our cat goes and poops in it!!
I have put some in the tuff spot for next week and am going to put the fisher price castle in it with prince and princess figures and dinosaurs for dragons all for the wedding week.
I dont mind them transporting it and playing with it in the outside toy kitchen but what really annoys me is when they just tip it on the floor for the sake of it or like the other day I told the older ones to keep it in the tuff spot and imediatly they pushed it all to the very edges and pushed a load out so I banned the older ones from playing with it for a while,

[Alibali]

we've had many a conversation about this, I HATE SAND!!!!!, and I know I'm not alone

Took my lot to visit a friend yesterday and she had her sand pit out, when we got back home my dd (18yo) picked up the little one and threw her in the air, only to be met with a face full of sand from where ever the pesky stuff was hiding, then it got on the floor and then on MY FEET

[Chimps Childminding]

I had bought one of the big wooden sand pits that the children can get in, then thought about it and realised it would get everywhere so I use a small sand table on legs instead.

Just wish one particular mindee would play with the sand in the sand table, but she takes it in the wendy house, on the slide, picnic table etc etc even though everytime I take the lid off I say "play with it IN the sand pit"

She leaves in July and I am seriously thinking about empting it out and putting it away until she has left

I HATE sand

[Cazz]

I don't like it much either but kids seem to love it so I tolerate it!

I've actually just started a thread asking if anyone's got a picnic bench with a panel you slide off with sand underneath. I'm considering buying one so that I can get rid of the plastic sand pit which they always want to climb in and then bring half the contents into the carpeted playroom!