Some of the bigger bears filled the buckets with sand, whilst others dug a moat ready to surround the castle (noticing that the sand got wetter and wetter the deeper they dug), then they turned the buckets of sand upside down to empty out beautifully shaped towers and turrets to make their castle. The littler bears ran round finding special seashells which they then used to decorate it.
When it was finished it wasn't really as huge as they would have liked because it had been very tiring and time-consuming lugging buckets of sand about but it looked very grand, especially to Tommy who became 'King Of The Castle' for the day (maybe because he was probably literally the only one who could fit inside the sandcastle without knocking anything over!)
