I had a couple of sheets of fused plastic left over from my backpack project, so I made a fused plastic checkbook cover for today’s MSCE. This is a quick, small, and simple project. You can also make a checkbook cover using scrap fabric.
Project Materials:

3 sheets of fused plastic, free
1 piece of recycled (thin) cardboard or stiff cardstock, on hand
Your checkbook & register to measure, …

This quick project will take your headphones from blah to awwww with minimal skills or effort. Apparently I’m a fan of hacking stuffed animals into usable items. It’s true, I don’t have a lot of love for stuffed animals as they are, but as useful objects, they fascinate me. I love this tutorial to make stuffed animal headphones by Instructables user WurlitzerGirl.
This would be a …

Scrumdilly Do has a great idea for making a game out of plastic egg halves and leftover jellybeans! Perfect reuse for all those eggs your kiddos collected during the egg hunt! You already got your plastic eggs at the dollar store, right? You have more than enough jellybeans for a round of memory, right?
Parents, if you haven’t checked Scrumdilly Do before, you definitely should! It’s …

Today’s MSCE project is fused plastic bags AND the backpack I sewed them into. I found some colored (and scented) trash bags at the dollar store that I picked up to fuse because I thought it’d be super-fun to have a bunch of pink fused plastic fabric to make into something. The dollar store also had blue trash bags.
I also found a plastic Luau door …

TeresaDownUnder posted a great idea for making a take-along placemat. She gives complete instructions for making it from scratch, but I don’t see why you couldn’t mod a ready-made placemat that you get from the dollar store. Just use a bit of scrap fabric to create the pockets and ties (or use ribbon for the ties to make your life even easier!). Take your placemat …

I used the super easy and quick Anna Sophia Kid Apron project to make some aprons for a couple kiddos, but I added a felt applique on each apron for my “Make Something Cool Everyday” project yesterday. The biggest challenge for me isn’t to make something cool each day, but to photograph it, upload the pictures to my computer, photo-edit them, and then write the …

Another great use for your old soda bottles is to cut ‘em up, color ‘em, and heat them into these pretty and colorful beads! What a chic way to celebrate Earth Day! These would be a fun project to make at a crafty get-together with your girlfriends. After the beads are made, have fun making them into funky jewelry. Project via Cut Out & Keep. …

I love finger puppets (they’re one of the only things I collect), and these finger puppets from Craft Jr. are simply made from pipe cleaners and pom-poms and will take your kids way beyond Easter in the fun department. Even if you don’t have time to make them before Easter, you can make them to fit any theme. They’d be wonderful party favors (or even …

Have you ever heard of Menko? I hadn’t either until I picked a package of cards up at Daiso (the Japanese dollar store!). Menko is a card game that is supposedly easy to play although I haven’t quite figured it out yet. That’s okay, though, because I wanted to make stuff with these amazing cards! I can think of a bunch of cool applications for …

SongbirdTiff bought this wreath at the dollar store, along with some decorative moss and used them together with some seashells she collected to make a nice accent wreath for her home decor. This was made for Living With Lindsay’s Five Dollar Challenge. I will be bringing you more projects from this challenge, so if you participated in it, send me a link to your project!
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