Sandboxes...Do your kids have one?

Mine have one that looks like a castle. The lid has a pretend moat and crocidile on it. It was free at a yard sale!!! Its a very nice sandbox. Right now we havent got any sand so they use it for a pool. Works well that way too!

Hi there....I had bought my kids the turtle sandbox, It didnt have a lid but man oh man it was hard to keep up on I had to get rid of it(

We have a turtle sandbox that sits in our yard. We bought it 4 years ago when our grandson was 2 years old. We bought it for $10, it was second hand. It did not have sand so we had to purchase it. It has endured many hours of play with all of your grandkids. They love it. We do encourage the grandkids to put the top back on so that the cats don't think of it as an outhouse just for them.

my kids had one of those little green turtle sandboxes. When we moved we just left it there, with 2 of them in it there just wasn't enough room for them to play. We are getting ready to build them one thats big enough for them to play in and their little brother next year :). We are going to build one with a lid also that way our cats and other animals are going in it.

Yes my kids have a sandbox. Thier sandbox is one of those ones that is half sand/half water. It is a brownish color that stands on four legs. The top fits on really tightly to keep the bugs out and it has two straps on either side to hold it down. It also came with an umbrella that goes in the middle of it when the top is off. They love it, but I just wish I could find away to keep them from dumping all the sand out. They have had the sandbox since Easter and are on bag 3 of sand.

I don't have kids but when I was young we had a sandbox. My dad works and was the main boss at a golf course so he could bring home sand in the golf course truck and fill up our sandbox. It was in the shape of a dinosaur (except flatter, of course). It had a lid, yes. The dinosaur was purple and the lid was yellow. However, that didn't make it critter-proof. If we hadn't played in it for a long time we'd find the sand a gross color and bugs all in it. It was fun when I was a kid but now I just hate sandboxes. They're so messy.

yes he sure does now..I wanted him to have one for his Bday and i looked all over and what i foudn was SB with lids and they wanted liek $30 and more for them i was shocked!! sooo i did some thinking..i went and got a clam shelled kitty pool..and when i put another on top it was a perfect match!! and right there was only $10 for two! sooo i filled it and when hes done he know immediately put the lid on or the kitties will pooh in it!! And he didnt want that,,and at night just in case..i put some bricks all over it and it keeps the lid on..but when the weather starts getting bad..and really windy..i bought bungee cords to hold the lid on..:)

I always have a problem with sand boxes and even the sand pits at parks because all the neighborhood cats think it is there for their personal use. They do have sand boxes that have lids and that is the only way to go.

When my kids were growing up we rented an apartment and never did have a sandbox. They went to city parks to play in sandboxes. My 2 grandsons have a pirate themed playground set thats being turned into a new fort. They have dirt piles in their yard. Does that count? HAHAHA!! HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

My daughter is 10 now so she doesn't have one anymore- when she was really young we had the turtle one- with a cover- when we moved my sig. other built her a BIG sandbox with cover- she spent hours in that thing playing- Our cat went in it one time when she was playing and tried to take a crap in it- YUK-- lol.. she threw a shovel at the cat- now the box is a flower bed!

My kids love the sandbox. We have one that is under a clubhouse type with a slide to get down from the clubhouse. It isn't covered. We live out in the country and haven't had any problems with animals getting in it yet! If I did have one with a cover, it would never be covered anyways because the kids are always in it.

For a few minutes we actually thought about getting the children a sandbox. We figured that they would really enjoy it. Then we heard a couple of our dogs bark. Now I bet you you are wondering what that has to do with the children having a sandbox. Well the dogs are barking at the next door neighbors cat who is allowed to run free through the neighborhood. If we put a sandbox out in the yard her cat will use it as a litterbox so we decided not to.

That would be a negative...my kids are 24 and 19...lol..but I have 2 grandsons 5 and 3 but do not have a sand box for them...The neighbors behind us have a lot of sand left over from when they put a pool in...now when the boys come over we play in their sand...I am always checking for cat poo and pee, because I wouldn't want the boys to get into that....If I did have one it would have a cover...cat proof for sure....

I don't have any kids, but I had a sand box when I was a kid.

Well yes and no our sandbox is the ocean that is about 5 miles away

i used to have a 'little tykes' sandbox for my kids...it was the turtle shaped one (which i am sure they still sell) i got it for free and ended up selling it to a neighbour for like 10 dollars and she is still using it (she runs a daycare) they sure do last a long time!!

We do not currently have one. But we had one at our old home and yes it had a cover. We always had a problem with bugs getting into it some how though.