what's the best thing to use to make sand? I was thinking brown sugar or graham crackers. Suggestions?

If the sand will be eaten, a lot of brown sugar is pretty yucky.

I make sand by grinding up a mixture of 'Nilla Wafers and cinnamon graham crackers. It make a nice color, texture, and taste.

Rae

I used ground up animal crackers and it worked beautifully!

I used ground up cheerios but I think Rae's sounds much better!

I use a combination of Animal Crackers and graham crackers.

I ground up some little butter cookies. They are the ones with scalloped edges and a hole in the middle. (My grandmother used to get them for us and we would put our pinkie finger in the hole and eat our way around it. Those cookies have been around for a loooooooooooong time )

I found this a few days ago in CC recipes when I needed sand:
http://cakecentral.com/recipes/7442/decorating-sand-for-landscape

I use ground up Nilla Wafers mixed with turbinado sugar.

NILLA WAFERS AND GRAHAM CRACKERS WORKS GREAT!!!

I use Nilla wafers and a few gingersnaps.

I actually use a combination of cinnamon graham crackers, nilla wafers, and a little bit of organic unbleached cane sugar (it gives a little bit of sparkle).

I use graham cracker crumbs but add some disco dust and it shimmers like sunshine on sand....just beautiful

oooh glimmer is fun what a great idea!