Thrift Store Shopping based DIY Craft Projects

Posted 09 October 2022 • 5 mins read

Thrift stores are the best place to find the supplies for your next DIY crafts projects. From essential crafters tool kits such as scissors, a variety of pens, pencils, paper towels, clothes, tapes, pins, measurement devices, glues, sewing tools, paints, hoops and plenty more. In thrift stores, you can also find ceramic items, glass wares, craft supplies, art supplies, and cloth pieces that are required for DIY craft projects.

In this blog post, you can find some of the best and easiest to get started thrift store haul based DIY projects for your next adventure. The projects include wall art projects, home decorative items projects, utilitarian product works and more.

Glitter Art
Artificial Flower Bouquet
Silhouette Art
Crocheted Mini Purse
Recycled Floral Mirrors
Renewed Chair & Furniture
Painted Journal Books
Painted Plant Basket
Wooden Branch Hooks
Cloth Covered Journal

Glitter Art

Glitter Art is one of the easier DIY projects that gets your project done in a day as well as results in aesthetically pleasing final artwork. To make glitter artwork, you need canvas or thick crafts paper, printer, paper, glitter and craft glue.

First, you need to print out the word of your choice using printer and paper. Cut out the letters and apply glitter to it. Once it looks full of glitter, glue it to canvas using craft glue. Once it's glued to the canvas, keep it for drying in an open place. Once dried, hang it on the wall where it can shine or place it in the living room and be an icebreaker for your next guest home.

Artificial Flower Bouquet

Artificial Flower Bouquet is another interesting project that results in fabolous piece of home decor item. For this project, you need to get a straw basket or bucket that you can easily find in thrift stores. You need a few supermarket flower bouquets, craft knives, plastic wrap and craft foam to fill and place the bouquet. To get started, cut the craft foam to the shape to fit inside the basket. place the craft foam around the plastic wrap inside the basket or bucket. Once placed, start placing flowers in different patterns to fit your needs and look good on the outset. Use the craft glue to fix the flower bouquet in place inside the basket. Once ready, give it a few moments to get the glue dry and you’re good to go with the new flower bouquet.

Silhouette Art

This is one of the easiest projects to get started from a thrift store haul. For this project, you need a small art canvas with a frame that you can find in thrift stores. For this to look good, buy a bunch of similar sized art canvas that needs to be placed together in a wall after finishing the art work. You also need a printer and paper to prepare a silhouette to be cut and placed on top of the prepared art canvas after applying matt black paint on top of the canvas. Cut the silhouette in the printed paper and place it inside the frame such that the silhouette makes the black paint visible on top, thereby creating silhouette art.

Crocheted Mini Purse

For Crocheted Mini Purse DIY projects, you need to get crotched clothes from a thrift store. Cut the cloth in the form of a mini purse open layout. crochet the edge with the same color thread to form a mini purse. Use the remaining piece to form a long thread to be joined and used as a mini purse holder.

Recycled Floral Mirrors

For this project you need a framed mirror, cloth pieces to make flowers, fabric scissor, fabric marker, hot glue and ruler. Get a very nice framed mirror of your choosing size from a thrift store. If the frame needs a paint or coat, apply a coat of paint and place it to dry. Cut the fabric into small rectangular shapes and fold it once and cut half of it in equal intervals from the folded end and encircle it around a pen or pencil to create a cloth based flower. Create a bunch of it and hot glue it onto the mirror canvas and voila, you have stylish Recycled Floral Mirror for your personal and make up needs.

Renewed Chair & Furniture

To give the fabric chair and furniture a new life, all you need is a new piece of fabric and sew it in place of the old fabric. For the chair, it's usually the back cover and front facing sitting surface. Remove the old cloth from the chair using a fabric scissor. cut the exact match of the surface from the new piece of cloth and sew it in place of the old one and you’ve got a chair and furniture with a new look.

Painted Journal Books

For the painted journal books, get a book or existing journal that needs a fresh look. Get a paintbrush and paint of your liking from the thrift store craft section. It may be hard to get an exact match of color of your liking. But second best should be good enough to make it look good on the money. Open the book with about an even number of pages on both sides and invert it to make the outer cover appear on top. Apply the paint and wait for it to dry. Once dried, open and close the journal to make the crease and you’ve got a custom covered journal.

Painted Plant Basket

If you’re into horticulture or gardening, this might be one of the best projects to get started on a thrift store shopping based craft project. For this project, you need a plant on a pot and a woven basket of suitable size to place your plant. You can get it from a thrift store. You also need paint to paint the basket. Apply paint in a tribal patterned shape on the basket outer surface and leave it to dry. Once paint dries, place the plant pot inside to make a painted plant basket.

Wooden Branch Hooks

This is one of the functional projects that has every day application and brings natural look and craftiness in its design to life. For the Wooden Branch Hooks project, you need a sturdy hook cut at 1-2 inch length with a hook like stem facing one side. Collect a bunch of them together with similar sized branches and paint them in similar colored paint. Once dried, mark the points on the wall to place the hooks. Once ready to place, drill down on top of the branch hook on the aforementioned point on the wall. Once all are placed, you are ready to use the wooden branch hooks to place any cloth items, towel, bag, belt, tools or other accessories on a wall.

Cloth Covered Journal

For this project, you need an existing or blank journal book, a cloth piece of suitable size to be used as a cover, glue, cloth marker, ruler and pen. Place the blank journal open on top of the cloth piece with an even number of pages on both sides. mark using marker to where the edge of the cloth needs to be cut. Once cut, apply glue on the outer cover of the journal and cut a cloth piece. Then apply the cloth on the outer cover of the journal while placing it open as done before. wait for it to dry and once dried, close and open the journal to see if the glue is attached in every place as intended. Now you've a custom made cloth cover journal for your diary or next writing project.

Thrift Store Shopping based DIY Craft Projects

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