Getting ready for a beach trip with your toddler? I have asked for advice from fellow moms and scoured Amazon to pull together the ultimate list of beach toys for toddlers. I hope that when you are done exploring these ideas, you will have put together the perfect set of beach toys to make your toddler’s beach experience extra fun.
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Sand Molds
With these sand mold sets, you and your toddler can create fun, unique, and even educational shapes on the beach. When they are not being used at the beach, your kids can play with them in the bathtub, sandbox, or even in the snow.
Sandcastle Building Kit
This sandcastle building kit will turn you and your toddler into architects and construction workers. Instead of a full castle, this kit gives you molds for bricks, rooftops, and domes to design your own castle.
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Sand Buckets
What trip to the beach is complete without a sand bucket? Your toddler can use these fun buckets to fill with sand, water, or shells at the beach. Most of them come with extra sand toys and tools, as well.
B. Ready Beach Bag with Toys
This set includes a unique bucket with a lid and spout. Along with the shovel, your toddler will enjoy playing with a rake, watering can, car, several sand molds, and even a pinwheel. The toys come in a bag that includes a mesh panel to let the sand out after you are finished playing, making it an extra portable beach toy for toddlers.
Collapsible Sand Buckets
A fellow mom recommends bringing foldable buckets. They are perfect packable beach toys if you flying or just want to save space. When they are not in use, you can fold these buckets down to less than two inches flat. When you are at the beach, open them up to fill them with sand or water.
Small Wagon with Beach Toys for Toddler
This 8-inch wagon is the perfect size for a toddler. Some of the lower reviews on Amazon come from people not realizing just how small it is – but it’s just right for a 1-year-old to pull along himself. It also comes with a sieve, shovel, sand car mold, and sand trowel.
Imaginative Sand Toys for Toddlers
These beach toys for toddlers offer unique twists that will encourage your child to engage in imaginative play in the sand.
Sand Cupcake Play Set
With this creative set, your toddler can pack sand into the handy hinged cupcake molds and “bake” them in the cupcake pan. Next, top the cupcakes with fun sea-themed toppers or pretend to ice them. Toddlers might enjoy further decorating their creations with seashells or stones from the beach.
Ice Cream Scooping Set
Recommended to me by another mom, this sand toy gives toddlers everything they need to set up an ice cream shop on the beach. Your toddler can use the sand scoops and molds to create ice cream cones and cupcakes. It also comes with a bucket that has a cover designed to hold the cones.
Dinosaur Sand Glove
This sand toy in the shape of a big dinosaur skull offers lots of fun ways to play pretend at the beach. Your toddler can operate the glove by opening and closing it like a puppet. Bury it in the sand and uncover it like excavators, pick items up from the beach with the big mouth, dig in the sand, or just have fun pretending to be a dinosaur.
Dump Truck Beach Toys
If you are looking specifically for a dump truck beach toy for your toddler, here are some wonderful options for little hands. Your toddler will have a blast transporting sand and water around with these dump truck beach toys.
Green Toys Dump Truck
The Green Toys dump truck, made from recycled plastic, is loved by parents and kids alike. It is extremely durable and made to easily drive over the sand. It also comes in pink if your little one prefers!
Fun Beach Toys for Toddlers
Aside from playing in the sand, these toys for toddlers offer other ways to have fun on your trip to the beach.
Ollyball
The award-winning Ollyball was designed for safe, fun play indoors or outdoors – such as at the beach! It is incredibly light and waterproof, and your toddler can even color it before you take it for a spin. When beach season is over, this ball can be played with inside without fear of injuries or broken windows!
Kite
Picture fresh air, a warm breeze, and a rainbow-colored kite flying through the air overhead. Bring this huge, easy-to-launch kite to the beach and delight your toddler with a beautiful aerial show. It has a kid-friendly handle and is recommended for ages 3 and up, so your toddler may even be able to fly it alone!
Collapsible Beanbag Toss Game
Your toddler will have fun tossing bean bags on the beach with this double-sided dinosaur- and turtle-themed game. This bean bag game is an easily packable beach toy for toddlers. It collapses down and comes with its own portable tote bag.
Beach Water Toys for Toddlers
Ready to get off the sand and into the water? These beach toys for toddlers are meant for splashing around.
Fine Motor Set
This educational beach toy will help your toddler practice fine motor skills while playing in the water at the beach. Your toddler will build hand strength and develop coordination by squeezing, scooping, and spinning. These toys also work in the sand.
Green Toys Oceanbound Tide Pool Set
These durable beach toys are made from recycled plastic, making them another eco-friendly option. Use each of the six ocean-themed pieces to pour water or sand in a unique way. When you are done playing, scoop these packable beach toys up into their storage tote, which is made from recycled bags.
Water Blasters
These water blasters are designed for the whole family, including the little ones! I like the fact that they are not in the shape of guns, but they still have the same effect as a water gun. The set comes with four water blasters, each featuring a fun animal shape. Your toddler can fill these up with water and spray more than 30 feet. (Parents beware!)
Sand-and-Water Sifting Funnel
This bright, sea-themed sand and water funnel turns outdoor play into a hands-on adventure as each layer tips, spins, sifts, and flows. Easy to carry and fun to watch in action, it keeps kids engaged at the beach, in the backyard, or at a water table.
Wave Powered Mini-Surfer
This fun toy comes recommended by a fellow mom and will offer amusement for the whole family. Toss the little surfer into the waves from the shore and watch as it automatically surfs back to you! See how this beloved toy works in the video below.
Waterproof Beach Blanket and Kiddie Pool
Another mom recommended setting up a kiddie pool at the beach and filling it with water and toys to keep your toddler occupied. However, it might be inconvenient to carry a plastic kiddie pool to the beach or blow up an inflatable one. Enter this genius waterproof beach blanket and kiddie pool. It is an easily packable beach toy, coming in its own portable waterproof bag. Use it as a beach blanket, and then carry water inside the bag from the ocean to convert it into a small kiddie pool!
Once you have picked out your toys, you may also want to grab a big mesh beach toy bag to carry all your toys to and from the beach. Or, as another mom recommends, bring smaller mesh bags for your kids to carry their own toys.
Have a wonderful trip to the beach!
