Whether you’re heading to the beach alone or with your family, packing some essentials get you ready for a stress-free beach day. While travelling with your family can be rewarding, it’s hard to say the same about the packing process. It can be daunting to consider what to bring alone to meet your young ones’ needs.

What should I pack for the day trip to beach? Is it necessary for me and my kids at the beach? And do I really need it? It’s no hard work making a beach packing list. You need some time to think about it and take a few minutes to keep it down. With the help of the printable beach packing list for family, all your worries will go with the wind. Remember to slather sunscreen on the kids before going and bring some to reapply. Then, in no time you will be dipping your toes in the emerald blue and feeling the breeze on your face before you realize it.

What do you put in a beach pack?

Travel bag

Travel bags come in different styles and designs, and choosing a right bag for your beach trip depends largely on how many things you will be packing, whether you prefer carry-on bags or luggage cases. As a rule of thumb, choosing a lightweight, durable, and comfortable bag or case is always the optimal choice. After all, you will spend your most of the time at the beach and carrying a large suitcase is too much of a hassle.

Here are different types of bags to consider in a beach:

• Duffel bag: Lightweight, durable, and easy to pack and holds more than a stiff suitcase. Selecting a water-resistant duffel bag with a bucket design prevents water and sand from infiltrating the bag at the beach.

When you are on a vacation at the seaside, you may wonder where to keep your mobile phone, watch, sunglasses, or other little items that get lost easily or mistaken by the wrong hands. Don’t worry, a portable and secure storage box is easy to carry and preserves all these items well.

• Vicosmos Biometric Privacy Safe is lightweight and portable to carry to the beach. It offers spacious storage space for your jewelry, watch, wallet, power bank, cellphones, earphones, sunscreen, snacks, sunglasses, towels, bathing suits, and much more! Multiple locking ways are provided to secure your belongings: fingerprint, digital password, and mechanical keys, and white, blue, green, burgundy, and black colors are available to cater for your preferences. To secure the case under your eyes, you can even attach it to a stationary chair leg or coconut tree trunk with the included heavy-duty security cable. Made of impact-resistant and water-resistant material, the safe is worry-free to use at the beach. Now the safe offers two different sizes – the medium and small ones. Please contact the sales team to learn more details about the case if you are interested in it!

Clothes

• Bathing suit
• Underwear
• Pajamas / tracksuits
• Flip flops / sandals
• Rain gear if necessary
• Spare skirts / dresses
• Water shoes

Sunglasses

The reason why we need sunglasses is self-evident – nobody wants to be blinded by the sun’s UV radiation and develop a skin cancer. Picking up a good pair of sunglasses makes you look cool at the beach and save your eyes from sun glare. And a hat is also necessary to give you shade.

Sunscreen

Only sunglasses and hat are not enough to protect your body from sun’s UV damage. You will need a sunscreen with a high SPF 30 or 50 to protect your bare skin from sunburn. You should apply the sunscreen 15 to 30 minutes before you go to the beach and re-slather it every 30 minutes or so when you are enjoying the sunbathe.

Aloe vera

Applying aloe vera gel helps soothe the sunburnt skin after you spend a whole day at the beach. It’s better to slather the aloe vera gel when you are chilled out.

Beach towel / picnic blanket

A towel ensures comfortable sitting on the beach. If you want to keep yourself warm and dry up quickly, consider a microfiber towel. Besides, the beach picnic lunch is also essential. You can have apple, carrots, simple PB&J, a few snacks, and water bottles packed in your backpack or search for the nearest beach restaurants for a meal.

If you have babies with you, you may need to bring diaper changing kit, bottles, or breastfeeding blanket.

First-aid kit

Hope you will not use it, but you can pack it in your luggage in case of an emergency.

• Disinfectant spray
• Bandage / Plaster / Gauze
• Pain relievers for adults
• Prescription
• Fever gauge
• Suppositories for vomiting / fever
• Ointment
• Insect spray
• Syrup against cough
• Nasal spray / aspirator / drops
• Alcoholic wipes / disinfecting wipes
• Vitamins
• Earplugs
• Disposable plastic gloves
• Leave-in hand sanitizer
• Mosquito spray / wipes
• Facial spray

Electronic items

• Cellphone / iPad
• Camera
• Headphones
• Power banks and charging cords
• Adapters
• Kindle
• Portable speakers

Book

If you much prefer a book rather than Kindle or any other eBooks, make sure to bring one sine you may find yourself lounging about at the beach. Personally, Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan and The Woman Who Had Two Navels by Nik Joaquin are my favorites.

Floats

Flotation devices like arm floaties, back float, or vests are important gear for children and adult beginners to develop swimming skills and help make the beach time a relaxing experience. Wear these devices and float away freely. There are even floaties for your beverages and food.

Reusable bags for wet clothes

If you just take a one-day or several hours trip to the beach and there is no time for you to dry up your swimwear, ensure that you bring enough plastic bags to keep your wet bathing suits in. After returning back home, air them out as soon as possible. Otherwise, they will get mouldy and smelly.

Spare change

Prepare some spare change in advance will do you a favor when you need to feed a parking meter or buy something temporarily.

Final Verdict

Do you need to bring everything on the beach packing list? Of course not. These are just our suggestions, you can bring whatever you want to make your beach experience wonderful. And we do hope this family packing list help.