41 Dollar Store Hacks For Parents
Are you a parent looking for a bargain? These dollar store hacks every parent should know about are essential if you’re looking to find cheap and useful hacks for your life.
With some brilliant dollar store hacks like combining a muffin tin with plastic cups to make a wonderfully mobile storage center for art supplies, stop your kids from losing playing cards by storing them in travel soap box holders, craft boxes are perfect for organizing barrettes and hair ties or even Dollar-store frames are perfect for making window art with glue and food coloring.
Dollar Store Hacks for Parent
1. Keep sippy cups organized using dollar-store baskets.
Never lose another sippy cup lid again. Learn more here.
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 soap box holders.
These are also great for storing crayons, beads, stickers, and more. Learn more here.
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! Learn more here.
9. One more for the car: Keep your kids from making a mess on fast-food runs with this dollar-store staple.
11. DIY on-the-wall storage for your kid’s magnetic toys using dollar-store pizza pans.
Find the tutorial here.
15. DIY these adorable book ends featuring your kiddo’s favorite animal.
Love Grows Wild has the tutorial.
17. Make traveling with kids easier by putting together a supply box with items from your local dollar store.
Find out more here.
18. Dollar-store frames are perfect for making window art with glue and food coloring.
Find out how here.
19. They’re also great for making a “family command center†board.
Learn how to run a tight ship here.
24. Pick up some non-toxic yellow highlighters to create versatile glowing water.
Learn how at Growing a Jeweled Rose.
25. 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. Learn more here.
26. You can also soak sponges in your favorite fabric softener to create never-ending dryer sheets.
Find out how HERE.
27. Keep their clothes (or gym bags) smelling fresh with these DIY sachets.
Pick up mesh bags from the dollar store and fill them with dried lavender, or your favorite dryer sheet. Learn more HERE.
28. Bring straws with you in a toothbrush container.
This way you have them when you need them.
29. Put dollar-store baskets on the stairs for your kids to put their loose toys.
Learn more about “crap baskets†here.
30. There are also incredible finds for your kid’s American Girl doll in the toy section.
After spending $100+ on the doll, you deserve these cool — and mercifully affordable — accessories. Learn more here.
33. A utensil caddy can double as a toothbrush organizer.
Organize combs, brushes, and hair ties this way too!
36. Dollar-store toys and trinkets make perfect “Catch ‘em being good†gifts.
Find out more about this positive reinforcement technique here.
37. Hang dollar store baskets to keep gaming supplies organized.
Organizing Made Fun has the details.
41. This DIY Christmas countdown holds tons of goodies.
Learn more from Simply Kelly B.
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