The raw material of steel sand is scrap steel of high carbon steel or alloy steel. A process for directly utilizing scrap steel to prepare steel sand. This includes the following steps: (1) Put the heated and quenched scrap steel into a crusher for crushing to obtain semi-finished steel sand; (2) Screen and classify semi-finished steel sand to obtain finished steel sand. The steel sand production method of the present invention reduces the smelting and shot making processes of scrap steel that must be first cast into steel balls in traditional steel sand production processes, greatly saving production costs. There is also a steel sand production method, which is characterized in comprising the following steps: (1) Put the heated and quenched scrap steel into a crusher for crushing to obtain semi-finished steel sand; (2) Screen and classify semi-finished steel sand to obtain finished steel sand.