Everlasting Sandcastle- Art Project FAIL

Well, I have learned once again that I have pretty much no artistic ability! But I did through that process find a great craft (if done correctly) and we had fun attempting to make an everlasting sandcastle.

Months ago I downloaded the SproutPlayer app for my Iphone, but it never really worked well with the Iphone 3G, so I had never used it. Tried it the other day on the IPhone 4 and it worked really well and had some great clips from the Sprout shows.  We watched the clip on how to make an everlasting sandcastle and my daughter loved it. She would not stop saying "make sandcastle like kids".  So I told her we would get all the supplies the next day.  She was so excited when we brought everything home!

Of course it started raining as we began the project and I was a little apprehensive about doing it inside because it does involve a bucket of SAND, but I thought it wouldn't make THAT much of a mess.  And had we had the proper supplies it wouldn't have made such a mess.  So to make a long story short we had the wrong kind of glue or maybe just needed more glue (we tried Elmer's school glue) and the sand we had was way to wet.  So below are some pictures of our "masterpiece" that we created. Although, my daugther still loves it even though it looks terrible! With the right supplies it could be really awesome! We may try it again later this week after we attempt to let our sand dry out in the hot weather!

Had all the supplies ready...so we thought

Time to glue! 

She had fun playing in the sand

Thought the glue might work better on the cardboard...nope

Our Everlasting Sandcastle..hahaha

This craft is a great beach craft, the sand from the beach would work great (and was really what they wanted you to use).  Here is a link to the directions, which I recommend following since we did not and this is what we got for it! Everlasting Sandcastle