Little Tikes Sandbox

Ancient cultures made buildings and statuary out of sand many thousands of years ago. Look around your neighbourhood playground or a beach today, and chances are you’ll see kids carrying on the traditions and playing in the sand, maybe making sand castles and other formations, if not trying to bury each other in mounds of it. It’s amazing how some things haven’t really changed much in all that time, isn’t it?

Anyhow, the fact is that sandboxes are fun, have been so for quite a while, and will probably remain so well into the future. That’s why Little Tikes has rolled out a wide variety of sandboxes. The Little Tikes sandbox series has some compact sandboxes that will fit inside a playroom and larger ones meant for a prominent and roomy corner of your backyard.

There is the Classic Turtle Sandbox, a cute 43-inch by 47-inch plastic turtle whose top shell lifts off to reveal an interior pit that holds up to 150 pounds of sand. When play is over, place the shell back on top and the sand will be safe from water, wind, and random dust and debris that could dirty it up. It’s one of the smaller models in the Little Tikes sandbox series. One or more young kids can fit inside it at a time.

Surf and turf, anyone? The Butterfly Beach Sandbox & Wading Pool is a Little Tikes sandbox on one side and a Little Tikes miniature wading pool on the other. Between the two stands a green parasol for shade. Like butterfly wings, the two sides close as well as open. When the kids are done, empty out the water on the pool side and it becomes a lid that seals securely shut over the sandbox.

In its unsealed, fully spread glory, this sandbox-plus-pool measures 64 inches by 39 inches. That’s big enough that your yard is where this one should go, unless your porch can fit it.

Kids who like trucks and big machines will be wowed by the Builder’s Bay Sand and Water Table, a 2-foot-high table whose surface holds a layer of sand and a landscape of toy vehicles and contraptions roaming across it: dump trucks, a construction crane, bridges, and a ship loading dock encircled by a moat. A human-size umbrella spans above from out of the table’s centre to shade the whole scene and the kids who sit around it.

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