If you've got a dollar, you can make your life easier,
especially when you are dealing with your kids.
This is 37 Dollar Store Tricks Every Smart Parent Should Know
1. Keep sippy cups organized using dollar-store baskets.
You could find this bins and baskets at dollar tree
and the best part is they are so in expansive.
Perfect height for your kids to help themselves.
2. Combine a muffin tin with plastic cups
to make a wonderfully mobile storage center for art supplies.
3. Stop your kids from losing playing cards
by storing them in travel soapbox holders.
These are also great for storing crayons, beads, stickers, and more.
4. DIY tube socks into super-cute baby leg warmers.
Start by cutting off the foot part,
keeping a nice straight line and even with the other sock.
Turn them inside out and created about an inch hem for each sock.
Sew it up with a zig zag stitch and Voila! Instant leg warmers.
5. Buckets are a good choice for organizing art supplies too.
Simply hang a few brightly color buckets on the hooks
to store all of your kids colored pencil.
6. Use a mesh laundry bag to hold sand toys at the beach.
The awesome thing about this is that you don't drag home
a bunch of sand at the end of the day!
7. Keep your car clean by using a cereal container as a trash can.
You can also keep your car in shape with a hanging shoe organizer,
and, keep your kids from making a mess on fast-food runs with this dollar-store staple.
8. Craft boxes are perfect for organizing barrettes and hair ties.
Organize them according mainly to color
and if they are all messed up, ask the girls to sort them up again.
9. DIY on-the-wall storage for your kid's magnetic toys using dollar-store pizza pans.
First, clean and prime the back of your pizza pan.
Once the primer is set up and dry,
paint your pans with your favorite color.
Set your pan on top of a sturdy cardboard box
and drill a small pilot hole in the edge of your pan.
Use your drill and the screws to mount the pans to your wall.
Once the paint is dry on the pan edges,
go ahead and move your magnets to your new magnetic storage area!
10. Dollar-store baskets are also amazing for outdoor activities.
11. Use Dollar Store dish racks to make organizing school supplies easy.
You stand the picture books up in the rack
and then your younger children can flip through the books without making a mess.
12. DIY a crib rail cover using a pool noodle.
Follow the complete instruction at Baby Bump App.
13. DIY these adorable bookends featuring your kiddo's favorite animal.
Glue 2 pieces of woods into L shape and then glue the elephant toys in it.
Spray paint them and you've got yourself a cute bookends.
14. Ice-pop trays are surprisingly ideal for organizing your kid's crayons.
Perfect for kindergarten or transitional kindergarten group tables.
15. Make traveling with kids easier
by putting together a supply box with items from your local dollar store.
This travel craft box is small but a great travel solution for kids.
It holds all the fun you need and can be packed easily
into a suitcase or into your car this summer.
16. Dollar-store frames are perfect for making window art
with glue and food coloring.
Simply put white glue and food coloring
into 4 cheap condiment bottle and shake it up.
Then, let your kids unleash their creativity
by squirting the colors onto frames from the dollar store.
The results is actually not so bad...
17. You could also use the photo frame
to make a "family command center" board.
Attach a Laminated pine cut wood into your wall.
Glue the photo frame into the pine wood
and print off all of your printables on white cardstock.
Insert the cardstock into the photo frame
and you are ready to keep your family organized.
18. Create a wipe off calendar with the combination of photo frame and paint chip.
Put the whole thing and BOOM! Wall calendar.
19. For an easy cleanup, throw down a plastic table cloth before craft time.
You can use them over and over again.
They get very painted and beat up, but hey – they were a dollar.
20. Use a salad spinner to make your own spin-art.
All you do is place a plate or piece of paper in the bottom of the spinner,
add in a few squirts of paint, and give it a good spin!
Carefully remove your art and let it dry . . .
and then create beautiful arrangements with them all!
21. Pick up some nontoxic yellow highlighters
to create versatile glowing water.
Pop the back off of the marker and pull out the ink soaked felt that is inside.
Run the ink-soaked felt under a small stream of water with a container underneath to catch it.
Squeeze the felt as the water runs over it to get all of the coloring out of the highlighter.
Turn the lights off and the blacklight on to see the water glow.
This is the blacklight fixture that we have.
22. Kitchen sponges can be used to make low-cost ice packs for your kid's lunch box.
This way if your kid loses the ice pack it's no big deal.
Soak sponges in water and then freeze them in zip-top bags. That's all there is to it.
23. You can also soak sponges in your favorite fabric softener to create never-ending dryer sheets.
24. Pick up mesh bags from the dollar store
and fill them with dried lavender, or your favorite dryer sheet.
Now your sheets smell like they are fresh from the dryer
whenever you get them out!
25. Bring straws with you in a toothbrush container.
Kids always need straws and this way you can have them
when you need them without mess.
26. Put dollar-store baskets on the stairs for your kids to put their loose toys.
Anything the kids leave downstairs goes in their crap buckets,
and they carry it upstairs at the end of every day to put stuff away.
If they wait too long, the stuff is confiscated, and they have to do something to get it back!
27. There are also incredible finds for your kid's American Girl doll in the toy section.
Well, after spending $100+ on the doll,
you deserve these cool — and mercifully affordable — accessories.
28. Organize medicine for quick and easy access in a pinch.
You could use cheap storage boxes from dollar store to store your medicine.
Make sure to check the expiration date
and then categorize all of your medicine into their own box.
29. An ice cube tray makes the perfect organizer for tiny bits and pieces
because of the small compartments.
Better yet, you can even stack them if you have space in your drawer.
You can store items like jewelry,
sewing and craft materials, and office supplies in the trays.
30. Use a utensil caddy as a toothbrush organizer.
Organize combs, brushes, and hair ties this way too!
31. Use a carabiner to keep hair ties from running amok.
With this, they all stay together, easy to grab
and you can easily get off the ones you need.
32. Fake snow is great for sensory play.
You could create this artificial snow
by turning ordinary water into a white fluffy substance with InstaSnow.
33. Dollar-store toys and trinkets make perfect "Catch 'em being good" gifts.
You fill the prize box with all kinds of Dollar Store Treasures
(puzzles, drawing paper, little toys, etc) that are kept in the same basket.
When you catch them doing good or being a big helper,
34. Hang dollar-store baskets to keep gaming supplies organized.
Get some $1 basket with handle from Target
to organize your gaming accessories and then hang them by using some cup hanger hooks.
35. Use pool noodles to create foam swords.
Here's how to do it:
Buy a swimming noodle and cut it in half.
After you cut your noodle in half,
measure the pvc pipe to be about 6 inches longer and cut it.
Wedge it all the way to the tip of the noodle or slightly under the tip so it doesn't poke out.
To create the sword handle,
get foam sheets from craft store and then cut them down to about 3.5? by 11?.
Using an exacto knife, cut out the inner circle of the indentation.
Slide the foam circles over the PVC pipe that is sticking out of the foam
and It should be a tight fit.
36. DIY a tiny North Pole out of a solar stake light.
Start by covering a round foam base with fake snow and glue.
While you're waiting for the glue on your snow to dry,
take two sign-shaped pieces of paper and write "North Pole" on each one.
For hanging the sign, you will need two short sections of necklace chain.
Make sure both pieces of chain are the same length so your sign will hang straight.
Open the end link on each piece of chain and secure it to a link farther up the chain,
forming a loop.
Lay one of the North Pole signs face down
and place the unlooped ends of the chain pieces on the top side of the sign.
Put a layer of glue on the back of the sign and layer the second sign on top,
so that the lettering on both sides of the sign is facing out
with the ends of the chains sandwiched in between.
Cut a pair of popsicle sticks to make a sign bracket.
Glue the cut ends of the popsicle sticks together at a right angle.
Apply a coat of paint to the sign bracket,
then glue it into place on the shaft of the solar path light at the top.
Carefully press the bottom end of the path light into the snow-covered foam base.
Slide the looped ends of the chain pieces over the popsicle stick bracket to hang the sign
and... it's done!
37. DIY these glitter ornaments that won't shed!
First, take the tops off the ornaments.
Put some Mop & Glo in the ornament and swirl it around covering the inside.
Pour the glitter into the ornament and then swirl the glitter around until the ornament is coated.
Let the ornaments dry with the tops off.
Then put the tops back on and hang them on the tree!
And… that's all for now…
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