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sand box questions

amyinaustinamyinaustin
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When do kids start playing in sand boxes?

And for those that have them or had them - is it a HUGE PITA to deal with (sand everywhere in the yard, random bugs burrowing in there, fire ants, etc) and would you do it again armed w/ the info you have now?

 I know you can buy sand at Home Depot/Lowes but I remember that another Nestie (forget who, sorry!) was commenting a while back that the sand you can buy at those places is not safe for your kids.

We can use MIL's turtle sand box if we want it - but I'm not sure we do. 

 

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  • naclh2otaffynaclh2otaffy member
    We have the turtle box and I like that because the lid keeps the random neighborhood cats who jump our fence from using it as a litter box.  Once the lid did not get put back on correctly and the sandbox did get infested with fire ants.  I sprinkled it with cinnamon, closed the lid, and the ants all died within a day or two.  Bonus, it smelled like snickerdoodles for weeks.  We don't have a problem with sand getting everywhere but we are consistent with "sand stays in the sandbox".  We got it when he was about 18 months old.
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  • mlf625mlf625

    I love ours and DS loves it SO much!  We also have one with a cover, I think that's pretty much a must.  I don't think it's a PITA at all, I just make sure we cover it as soon as we're done playing.

    No idea about the sand, we bought the play sand bags at Home Depot and I'm not concerned.  It's not like he eats it.  Well, he doesn't eat much of it, anyway.  ;) 

    ETA: he does toss sand everywhere, but our sandbox sits on a wooden deck, so the sand just sifts through the cracks and goes under the deck.

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  • ali-1411ali-1411 member

    imagenaclh2otaffy:
    We have the turtle box and I like that because the lid keeps the random neighborhood cats who jump our fence from using it as a litter box.  Once the lid did not get put back on correctly and the sandbox did get infested with fire ants.  I sprinkled it with cinnamon, closed the lid, and the ants all died within a day or two.  Bonus, it smelled like snickerdoodles for weeks.  We don't have a problem with sand getting everywhere but we are consistent with "sand stays in the sandbox".  We got it when he was about 18 months old.

    How did you get all the dead ants out?

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  • Temp919044062507573Temp919044062507573

    Not sure of the safety part but Crayola makes colored sand. Bought some for my nephew last year...it was in the parking lot portion of the lawn and garden section at Wal-Mart...it's a little more pricey but he loved his blue sand.

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  • naclh2otaffynaclh2otaffy member
    imageali-1411:


    How did you get all the dead ants out?

    It's been awhile and I don't remember the carcasses being a problem.  Maybe they decomposed quickly.  I really didn't care as long as they weren't alive and biting and the cinnamon was a nice, handy, safe pesticide.

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    mmmm....a sandbox full of snickerdoodles! thanks alot!
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