Digital Sand Castle Art Project
My no prep, digital art project for elementary kids to build a sand castle on Google Slides™ is an easy and engaging summer activity. Students will practice technology skills using my digital sandcastle resource and step by step art lesson. Then, pick a writing prompt to draft a creative story about their sand castle project.
Need fun, fast finisher activities for elementary? Digital art projects are paperless, take up no space, and don’t use art materials. Simply assign the sandcastle activity using your LMS, and stop worrying about early finishers!
Digital Summer Sandcastle Templates
- This Google Slides summer activity includes tech tips and step by step directions with pictures for independent learning. And, kids can build a sandcastle using either copy & paste or drag & drop.
How to Build a Sand Castle Art Project
First, your students will pick a background. Then, they’ll begin by adding some large sandcastle shapes. Next, they’ll overlap more castle shapes. Lastly, they’ll add windows, flags, sea shells, boats, rocks, a sun, or sand bucket and shovel.
Technology Skills
- Copy & paste
- Drag & drop
- Rotating
- Ordering
- Resizing
What’s Included
- 13 Student Direction Slides, with step by step tutorial so kids can create their digital sand castle project independently
- Digital Moveable Pieces, so kids can either copy and paste or drag and drop to create their sandcastle from the templates
- 7 Background Slides, where students will paste or drag their project pieces onto
- 2 Summer Writing Prompts, for kids to complete after making their sandcastle
- 4 Teacher Examples, fully completed, which you can use to demonstrate
You Will Receive
- 1 Non-Editable PDF (with access link & teacher directions)
- 1 Google Slides Doc (Digital Sand Castle Project & Writing Prompts)
Why You’ll Love My Sand Castle Craft
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This was a great following directions activity. My students are getting very proficient with manipulating digital images. Thank you.
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My students loved this resource during our last week of school! Each day we had a different theme and this really added to their excitement of keeping them focused during the last week.
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This was a great addition to our beach day! My kiddos enjoyed using the digital version and their creations were so fun!
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Michelle S. –
This is a good activity for the end of the year. The kids enjoy creating them.
Schooling Supplements (Teacher-Author) –
This was a fun activity to do before we ended our school year. The kids were completely engaged!
Second Grade Style (Teacher-Author) –
This was a great addition to our beach day! My kiddos enjoyed using the digital version and their creations were so fun!
Sarah Cole –
My own kids really enjoyed building a virtual sandcastle when it was raining outside!
Gwen M. –
Used this as an end-of-year activity when were online. The students loved it. Great intro to summer:)
Duck Duck Uff Da Teacher (Teacher-Author) –
LOVE LOVE LOVE!! This is a great resource! Thank you!!
Caroline K. –
My students found this resource very helpful and engaging. Thank you 🙂
The Lesson Chef (Teacher-Author) –
Thanks!
Linza Perez –
thank you
Kiss Your Brain (Teacher-Author) –
Great!
Debra R. –
My students really enjoyed using this resource.
Lessons in a Bubble – Kimberly Jacobs (Teacher-Author) –
This was a great following directions activity. My students are getting very proficient with manipulating digital images. Thank you.
Heather P. –
This was perfect for the last week of school. Absolutely perfect. The students loved sharing their creations, tool!
Shan Bateman –
My students loved this resource during our last week of school! Each day we had a different theme and this really added to their excitement of keeping them focused during the last week.
Vicki S. –
I used this with my in-person and online kids this year. We were having a beach themed day and this gave them a great way to be creative and build their own sandcastles. They loved it!
Mayra N. –
This was such a great activity for my students to use on the last week of school. No prep work!
Claudia Q. –
My students loved it.
joann F. –
This was perfect!!! I do fun theme weeks towards the end of the year and I wasn’t sure how I was going to do it this year with my remote kiddos. This was perfect for beach week. The kiddos had so much fun. I have used some of your digital art projects and they are always a big hit.
Donuts Then Teach (Teacher-Author) –
My students loved doing this digital activity during our beach party countdown to the end of the school year! Thank you!
Cherise S. –
Great product!