I have two questions...

[rugbywife]

#1: What are the chances my kid is going to eat the sand if I get her a sand table?

#2: A Water table/Sand table mix seems like a wet sand table waiting to happen, yes? What kid ISN'T going to dump water into the sand part?

[Deleted]

My child never tried to eat sand. And even if your kid eats the sand, this will likely happen once.
My child also never ate crayons or playdoh either.

Mixing - yes. Only wet sand will do anything. You have to wet it. Does it dry? No idea. We only have water play.

[matildasun]

Water in the sand is no big deal. Sand in the water part is a pain in the neck.

[rugbywife]

How had I not considered sand in the water. Sigh.

[thebreakfastclub]

Last summer my kid just had water and toys in his table. He had fun with that.

[turtlegirl]

We did the sand and water table and hated it! It very quickly became just a water table.

[ilikedonuts]

Our double table is just used as one or the other. (we never put sand in last year, but the year before it was just sand)

We have two tables now so we can do one of each.

[SJ]

Sand sounds like something I will outsource to daycare

[magpie]

My kid has never eaten sand from her sand water table. She does, however, love to scoop the sand into the water or, even more messy, onto the ground around the table. That's like her favorite thing to do. I just sweep it up. We keep ours out on the (brick) porch. No big deal. Messy fun is for outside and it's outside

[jln]

DS tried the sand at the sandbox place we used to go to. He only did it once.

[potatopie]

DS never really intentionally ate the sand, but it ends up in his mouth often (he'll put something in the sand and then in his mouth, or just touch his mouth with sandy hands...etc). It's fine.

The sand does get everywhere, but he's played in it almost every day for over 9 months now. Best purchase ever.

[bananapancakes]

My neices had a combo sand/water table and it quickly became a double mud table!

[cricketwife]

I don't know all these kids who don't eat sand. No sand table here, but DS was definitely eating sand, repeatedly, at the beach last week.

[Deleted]

Not sure on 1. J ate sand once at daycare and that was it, he realized it's disgustinG.

2. sand in the water side is the reason I got a stand alone water table. No desire to cleanup that mess.

[carolinagirl831]

We got a water table only for that reason. I didn't want to deal with the mess all the time. Because I don't see how it wouldn't be a mess.

[mrsGreeko]

My kids all are sand at least a couple of times. It comes out the other side, it won't hurt them, and they only do it a couple of times before they realize it's yucky.

We never had a sand and water table so can't answer the other question.