Bring your favourite bath-time buddy to your next tea time, with your very own tea duck. This project uses a small plastic toy duck as a buoy for your loose-leaf teaball. As with all projects that have a consumable element, ensure the toy you use is food-safe, and able to handle the hot temperatures of boiling water without melting.
Project Estimate

Tea ball – $1.00
Plastic toy duck …

Bring some much needed attention to your otherwise dull light switch covers by covering them with funky patterns, for super cheap! Most covers are utilitarian by design: a simple piece of molded plastic used to conceal the switch/plugs and electric wiring. Boooring.

This project uses sheets of patterned wrapping tissue applied to standard plastic light switch covers to bring a little excitement into any room. You …

Tool belts are typically worn by people working in the field who need a place to keep their tools easily accessible in case they need them. Tool belts come in all shapes and sizes depending on what you’re doing, and are a handy place to keep tools which are commonly used when working. This project is a twist on the typical tool belt, aimed at …

My boys are avid fans of the game Angry Birds.  They love to play it on Daddy’s phone — however, they truly enjoy the whole concept of the game, and love role-playing it!  Well, I too have had Angry Birds on the brain.  But I haven’t been playing it; in fact, in all honesty I am just no good at it.  But I have taken my boys’ love of …

This year my boys are very much into Halloween.  Together we have been having a great time decorating and doing fun Halloween activities.   On a recent trip to the dollar store we found some skeleton straws and brought them home to come up with something to use them for.
After my skull light project a couple weeks ago, I had my string of twinkle lights sitting …

The other day, reader N sent me a link to this CB2 Pebble Mat and said she didn’t have time to work on the project now, but that it would be a fun dollar store craft. I agreed with her: it would be fun (and also, I don’t have time right now either! So many ideas, so little time.) As luck would have it, I …

Today’s project is inspired by the idea of “kitbashing,” where you take pieces from several model kits to create something new and unique.  My family first got into this concept on a recent trip to my brother J. Clark’s house, where we created some unique model spaceships out of items we went and found at a local thrift store.  That was only a few weeks …

Whenever my nieces come over, they raid my dish towel drawer for “dress-ups.”  Yes, they use dish towels for everything from dresses to capes.  It’s very fun, and very cute — but it makes for a lot of laundry!  :o)
Last week at the dollar store I spotted some dish towels — flour sack style, but a bit smaller and in fun, bright colors.  It was meant …

It seems to me that this year, more than past years, there are some exceptionally pretty silk flowers at the dollar store.  I mean, they’ve always got silk flowers — but this season they’ve been stocking up on some really fantastic ones!
When Mother’s Day rolled around (sneaked up!) this month, I needed something to dress up a gift card.  What better gift for Mother’s Day …

Last August, when Heather first asked me to be a regular contributor here at Dollar Store Crafts, I spent a big chunk of time at my local dollar store, browsing and looking for great project materials and ideas.  The very first item I knew I had to have was a most fabulous dish towel with a fish theme.  How I loved the details of that fishy!  …