Eat: Serve smoothies with mini-umbrellas, burgers, fries, and other beachy fare. Decorate cupcakes with blue icing (water), yellow-cake crumbs (sand), and Swedish fish.

Make: Refrigerator magnets from seashells, craft clay, mini-magnets, and glue. Or try sandscapes with colored sand in clear plastic jars.

Play: Ask kids to come in bathing suits and flip-flops. Have a limbo contest and play Kadima.

Insider tips: Turn up the heat (just for a while). Play The Beach Boys CDs. Give favors in plastic sand pails.

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