I made some wee pants/shorts out of a dollar store dish towel, inspired by the dish towel toddler skirt at Filth Wizardry (but I don’t have girls!) and a how-to at Rookie Moms about how to make toddler pants out of a t-shirt. I was hoping they would be fun shorts for my two year-old, but they were a bit of a craft fail in …

We Wilsons posted this cool idea to make your own dusting mitt! Of course, if you are shopping at the dollar store regularly, you can just pick up a ready-made mitt for a buck, but if you have some of this stuff on hand, you can make one and bust your stash at the same time!
Some ideas for the dusting part: old fleece scarves or …

If you are a crafter, then you’re probably familiar with those times when the project you’re working on just doesn’t quite measure up. Blogging crafters will admit that when they have a craft fail, it usually doesn’t appear on the pages of their blog because it isn’t exactly something they want to shout from the rooftops about!
A few crafty friends and I were together on …

Reader dyp sent me this project she made with a jar and some temporary tattoos and beads: an incense jar! You could use this technique to tattoo a vase or other kind of crockery, too! Or how about recycling a glass beverage bottle?
Dyp says:
Method: Clean jar really well to remove finger prints and oils from skin. ( I used rubbing alcohol.) Apply tattoos just like you would …

Today’s Make Something Cool Everyday project is a quickie… We had a birthday party to go to, so I used some of my Stamped Animal Gift Wrap (project instructions here) to wrap the gift (my two year-old helped with the tape!) and then let him add stickers to the wrap to decorate it a little more. Yes, it’s simple and barely crafty, but I like …

Reader Diane from JuxtaPoser tipped me off to some cool catnip toys she made for her pet, using stuffed animals from the dollar store. She wrote up a nifty tute for this easy pet project on her blog. Thanks for sharing your idea, Diane! I don’t have any pets myself (two kids under 3 is enough for me!), so I love it when my readers …

Dollar Store Crafts reader Michelle was inspired by the Recycled Soda Bottle Coin Purse project to make her own. Then she took it one step further to make an entire soda bottle into a nifty holder for her iPod! Of course, you could use the bottle to hold many things. How handy would a holder like this be to toss into your diaper bag (straight …

The project was simple today: putting dollar store animal stickers on eggs before we dyed them (and by “we” I mean my 2 year old). I helped with the stickers, but he was strictly in charge of dyeing. [More Make Something Cool Everyday projects]
We used foam animal stickers (previously seen in a few of my dollar store crafts) and stuck them on hardboiled eggs that …

Staci from Fiber Space Designs posted some amazing placemat handbags in the Dollar Store Crafts flickr pool so I just had to ask her for some more info about her creative process in designing handbags with placemats.
But first, the project breakdown! You can make a placemat handbag with one placemat or two (or more, especially if you use another kind of placemat for lining!). You …

Use pipecleaners and googly eyes bent into the shape of various animals faces for a fun way to dress up your Easter eggs! A simple sleeve made of cardstock can also be decorated to add arms, legs, and body details to your animal (although I didn’t fancy up my paper sleeve here… looks like the Elephant is wearing a towel). Kids will have fun creating …