Floor Treatment (Water & Beach Ideas)

Dale & Dee Dye

Imagine coming into the room with the sea on your left and the beach and moutains to your right (Wall murals). To the left jutting out of the wall is a large 3D ship (1/2 Wall high) which houses the computers and a gang plank for entering the ship.

Here is our problem: our coordinator wants to portray on the floor that the ship is sitting in the water and the gang plank reaches from the ship over some water to the beach. How can we portray this short of painting the carpet? We need something that will look good and stand up to kids when they walk on it. Any suggestions? Has anyone done anything similar?

Wendy In Roch wrote:

What about some blue tarps like they use to cover boats, motorcycles or cars.

Use double-side carpet tape to hold it to the floor.

Neil wrote:

HOW TO CREATE A REAL BEACH.

Nail 2x4's to create a large frame. Lay a canvas cloth inside the frame and pour bags of play sand in it!   We did this for a special "Bible Beach" project and it was a lot of fun... and a lot less messy that everyone expected. The sand is very dry and doesn't get tracked out that much.

When you're done, just drag the sand out the door on the tarp and dump.

We added Xmas trees around the beach, and a picket fence, then decorated with beach toys and decor.