How to make a sand globe (4 minutes):
Here are the steps:
1) Find fine-grained, clean sand. (Not coarse-grained or with seaweed or shells)
2) Find the spot with sand that is not showing liquid water, but reveals it when you stomp on it about 6 times. (Not too wet or dry)
3) Use the tips of your fingers to gather and scoop a double handful of sand and hold in your hands as if they are a bowl. (If the sand is glistening wet, or water drips from your hands, it is too wet.)
4) Begin tossing the sand, gently, to form the globe. Keep your hands bowl-shaped (Not molding or squishing the globe, or catching it harshly, or spinning it.) After about 10-20 tosses, the mass of sand should become visibly wet and glisten when in the air. It will pull itself into a globe shape if you always catch it gently in bowl shaped hands.
5) Add more sand from the same area, by scooping sand up with one hand, adding it to the bottom of the globe, and tossing the combined mass, rotating it on a diagonal, keeping the new sand at the bottom until it starts to adhere.
6) Toss the globe as before, in all orientations, to made it become round again.
7) Repeat #5 and #6 until you are done.
8) Carry the globe up the beach to reach dry sand.
9) Pour dry sand on top of the globe while holding it in one hand, then place a hand on top, flip the globe between two hands, pour dry sand on the new top, then pour dry sand all over by rotating the globe slightly before each pour.
10) Rest the globe on the sand, and dry your hands by rubbing them in dry sand.
11) Smooth away the loose sand on the outside using gently separated fingers, revealing the globe sand beneath.
1) Find fine-grained, clean sand. (Not coarse-grained or with seaweed or shells)
2) Find the spot with sand that is not showing liquid water, but reveals it when you stomp on it about 6 times. (Not too wet or dry)
3) Use the tips of your fingers to gather and scoop a double handful of sand and hold in your hands as if they are a bowl. (If the sand is glistening wet, or water drips from your hands, it is too wet.)
4) Begin tossing the sand, gently, to form the globe. Keep your hands bowl-shaped (Not molding or squishing the globe, or catching it harshly, or spinning it.) After about 10-20 tosses, the mass of sand should become visibly wet and glisten when in the air. It will pull itself into a globe shape if you always catch it gently in bowl shaped hands.
5) Add more sand from the same area, by scooping sand up with one hand, adding it to the bottom of the globe, and tossing the combined mass, rotating it on a diagonal, keeping the new sand at the bottom until it starts to adhere.
6) Toss the globe as before, in all orientations, to made it become round again.
7) Repeat #5 and #6 until you are done.
8) Carry the globe up the beach to reach dry sand.
9) Pour dry sand on top of the globe while holding it in one hand, then place a hand on top, flip the globe between two hands, pour dry sand on the new top, then pour dry sand all over by rotating the globe slightly before each pour.
10) Rest the globe on the sand, and dry your hands by rubbing them in dry sand.
11) Smooth away the loose sand on the outside using gently separated fingers, revealing the globe sand beneath.
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