Turn Dollar Tree Items Into Cute Countertop Storage With An Easy DIY

When you're starting to run dangerously low on countertop storage space, the Dollar Tree is the first place you should look for relief. There, you'll find the makings for a DIY covered dome dish — aka cake cover — where your assorted cupcakes and doughnuts or almost-ripe fruit hide. TikTok creator @juju.cares shows how simple it is to make such a cover, using only a few items and even fewer tools to put together a fun and decorative solution that makes keeping your kitchen counters clutter-free both pretty and easy.

At its most basic, this project is just a round platter and a dome lid that you'll embellish. A 12-inch Cooking Concepts Tin Pizza Pan is big enough to accommodate the width of a 9-inch cake, four or five muffins, or a pile of cookies. You'll fancy the platter up with some of the Dollar Tree's Floral Garden Acrylic Gems. Because they come in a variety of colors, you get a lot of decorative flexibility with this project. For example, buy some red, white, and blue gems when you need to make a quick cake or bread cover for a Fourth of July or New Year's celebration. Further, given that many decorative covered pans like this retail for between $20 to $50, you'll save money on stylish storage items if you make it yourself. To create the dome, you'll need to grab one of Dollar Tree's Large Plastic Bowls. One version of the bowl is plain, clear plastic, but it also comes in red, blue, purple, and pink, so choose the one that suits your project and your storage space the best. Lastly, this DIY requires a glue gun or epoxy (a strong glue that packs a particular punch when bonding plastic) to bind everything together.

The pizza pan gets decorated first in this DIY cake stand project. Take off the packaging and adhesive labels, using oil, rubbing alcohol, or a hair dryer (generally one of the best sticker removal methods for metal) to get all the gunk off. Flip the pan over so that it's upside down. Next, glue the flat floral gemstones all around the outer lip of the pizza pan. There should be as little space between them as possible. Make the dome lid by gluing a cluster of six to eight stones on the bottom of the plastic bowl, right in the middle. This creates a knob for you to grab onto when you're removing the lid from its embellished pizza tin base. Once those main two pieces are finished, you can fill the metal platter with goodies and stored items.

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If you'd like to level up the design on this a bit, skip the cluster of floral marbles and replace them with a Crafters Square Wooden Peg Doll to make a simple but elegant knob. You could also free up some counter space beneath the pan by turning this DIY into a cake cover on a stand. You just need to glue a Dollar Tree Candle Holder to the bottom of the pizza pan, ensuring it's centered and secure. If you'd like to elevate the look a bit, add a coat of black paint to the wooden doll knob and combine that with a base made from the black candle holder to create a more dramatic presentation. As a finishing touch, enhance the design even more by laying a decorative paper doily or 10-inch ceramic plate on the pizza tin before you fill it up with food and other items.