18 Dollar Tree Salt And Pepper Shaker DIY Hacks That Are So Creative

Dollar Tree is filled with odds and ends that can be used for all kinds of DIY projects. From holiday décor to functional home essentials, you can find malleable materials — sometimes unexpectedly so — while staying on a budget. Salt and pepper shakers are one such item. You can make so many fun creations that don't obviously use dollar store products. For example, tall, thin shakers can be painted to create practical themed table décor — think kissing birds for spring, candy corn for fall, and snowmen for winter. Other styles can be repurposed into everything from unique ornaments and air fresheners to creative decorations, like a bottled ghost for Halloween.

Dollar Tree's classic rectangular Cooking Concepts Clear Glass Salt and Pepper Shakers are adorned with vertical grooves. They're 3½ inches tall and just over 1½ inches wide. They're not the only dispensers available at Dollar Tree. The store also stocks the adorable Mini Glass Shaker Jars with Handles and Metal Lids, which are about 3½ inches tall and 2 inches wide. Many of the decorations you can make with these dinner table dispensers use other Dollar Tree products, too, keeping things affordable. Browse the aisles for seasonal miniatures, faux gems, pretty ribbons, and decorative buttons to add style to your salt-and-pepper shaker do-overs. You may also want to pick up a quality glue, like Mod Podge Matte Craft Adhesive, to bring everything together.

These little angel ornaments are made with tapered salt and pepper shakers. However, you could still make this craft work with the Dollar Tree Cooking Concepts rectangular salt and pepper shakers. You'll need some ribbon for the wings, a large bead for the head, and some fine wire for the halo. You can also add whatever fabric or other ornamental items you want to finish off the look. Leave the angels' skirts transparent or paint them — your choice!

Every holiday provides a new reason to break out the themed décor and set the table with it. The act brings a family together. Valentine's Day crafts typically center around gift boxes and cards, but the dinner table is forgotten. These sparkly pink Valentine's Day salt and pepper shakers are a fun way to add some romance to your decorations. While you can use any glass paint for this project, YouTuber The Crafty Gleim used layers of glitter sealed with resin to create a polished effect.

Whether you are looking for ideas for Halloween or you just love candy corn, this Dollar Tree salt and pepper shaker DIY is simple, cute, and will particularly appeal to kids. Plus, you can leave it on your table throughout fall. Start by brushing on a thin layer of white paint, and let it dry. This will prime the glass surface, helping to prevent streaks later on. Then paint equally sized horizontal stripes of yellow, orange, and white to mimic the look of candy corn.

Another extremely popular DIY that uses this Dollar Tree kitchen essential to brighten any room in your house is matching salt and pepper shaker flower vases. There's really no way you can go wrong with this DIY. Some people go all out with a rustic distressed paint job and twine, while others simply add a tasteful ribbon to the shakers. Either way, both can be dressed up with a mini bouquet of flowers — fresh or faux. Set the vases on a small tray for display.

Snowmen are perhaps the most popular Dollar Tree salt and pepper shaker DIY hack — the options for design are near-endless. To start, paint the shaker white and the lid black. Then you can either paint on a snowman's face, glue on facial features, or use a combination of both. For example, you could craft a tiny carrot nose from orange air-dry clay and use small black buttons for coal eyes. Some people top the lid with a foam ball for the snowman's head and add buttons to the glass, turning it into the body.

The mason jar-mug Dollar Tree salt and pepper shakers are the perfect containers for this festive snow globe DIY. As the holiday season approaches, some Dollar Tree's sell Christmas miniatures, which you can use to bring the look together. Simply fill a shaker part-way with craft snow and arrange the miniatures of your choice on top of it. You can use the same idea to make fairy gardens using themed miniatures from Dollar Tree and Usmola Fake Moss.

Want a touch of whimsy on the dinner table? Adorn Dollar Tree salt and pepper shakers with kissing birds. Paint the shakers in your favorite color or trending hue. Cut two stylized birds from thick white cardstock and distress the edges. Glue the birds to the front of the shakers and adorn the lid with ribbon and the super affordable Dollar Tree item that personalizes any DIY project: gem stickers. Not great at drawing? This set of CraftMedley Miniature Laser Cut Wood Shapes features birds and branches.

If you're looking for a creative and affordable DIY for a special event, consider using Dollar Tree shakers as centerpieces. This is essentially a variation on the aforementioned flower vase, where you make a DIY custom centerpiece with Dollar Tree salt shakers and a butter dish. However, this is far from your only option. Create cute signage using a Cooking Concepts Bamboo Cutting Board. Add some inspirational or instructional text in a cute font, glue the shaker vases to it, and set it down wherever it's needed.

Salt and pepper shakers are surprisingly easy to transform into simple yet effective air fresheners or fragrance diffusers. Simply unscrew the lid and drop a few wax melts into the shaker. That's it! For a more natural option, fill the shaker with dried herbs, make a potpourri, or try this Epsom salt DIY that can help eliminate odors from your home. Use these homemade air fresheners in any room of your home, your closet, or even near your trash can in the garage.

This is one salt and pepper shaker DIY hack you've probably never thought of before. You can DIY your own shoe peg wall display with a Dollar Tree kitchen essential — yup, we're talking about the shakers — that's unexpectedly refined. You'll need the same number of shakers as you have shoes to display. Remove the caps and save them for other crafts (like a snowman's hat). Then attach the shaker to the wall using industrial glue designed for glass — it should stick out like a hook. Mount a sneaker on each shaker.

This adorable spring home décor you can DIY with Dollar Tree items is yet another variation on the earlier flower vase project. First, paint the shakers white and decorate them, decoupage-style, using spring-themed patterned paper napkins and Mod Podge. Then glue the shakers to a Hampton Art White Diagonal Plank Wood Plaque, add water and your favorite cut flowers to the vases, and hang the whole thing on the wall. You can also mount the shakers to this wooden Wall Shelf Décor from Dollar Tree for a similar effect.

With the help of a few other affordable Dollar Tree items, you can convert a salt and pepper shaker into a vintage-vibes glass candle holder. Find a base — a decorative side plate or the Luminessence Glass Plate Candleholder would work great. Glue the shaker to the center of the base and top it off with the Clear Round Glass Floral Vase or a small glass fish bowl. Drop a lit Luminessence Lavender Fields Scented Pillar Candle into the bowl, and wrap the base in artificial foliage to finish.

You can turn Dollar Tree salt and pepper shakers into printed photo holders. We have @Hastings Public Library to thank for this surprisingly simple craft project. All you need are some notions to adorn the outside of the shaker, like beads or buttons, some super glue, and a length of wire. Glue on the decorations in whatever arrangement you prefer, wrap part of the wire around the shaker's cap, and form the end into a clip that holds the photo. Incorporate it into a mantel vignette or dining table centerpiece.

Here's an almost effortless option for dressing up your plain ol' Dollar Tree shakers: adorn them with peekaboo letters. First, attach letter stickers to the exterior of a clean, dry shaker. Paint over the sticker in any color of glass or acrylic paint you prefer. Once the paint is dry to the touch, carefully peel off the letter sticker and clean up any rough edges. Feel free to finish off your personalized shaker with additional adornments, like ribbons, twine, or gems.

It's time to move beyond the shaker vase. Instead, grab a few Dollar Tree salt shakers to make plant propagation a breeze. They're the perfect size for propagating cuttings from common houseplants and garden plants, including pothos, snake plants, mint, and rosemary. Not to mention, you don't need to do anything to the shakers to turn them into a propagation pot. Simply unscrew the caps, fill the glass receptacle with water, and insert a cutting. Pop the shakers on a sunny windowsill and watch for roots.

For Halloween lovers, this bottled ghost salt and pepper shaker DIY by crafty TikToker @sarahepope30 is to die for. These adorable ghost-filled bottles are the perfect finishing touch to a shelf of spooky décor. Cut a few small squares from gauze or cheesecloth. Place a foam ball in the center of the square and wrap it in cloth, then tie it at the neck with white thread. Loop the end of the thread through a hole in the cap. Push the ghost into the shaker, and screw on the cap.

If you have a green thumb but don't have the space or the patience to care for houseplants, a miniature terrarium made from a Dollar Tree salt and pepper shaker may be the perfect alternative. Fill the shaker with thin layers of sand, soil, fine gravel, moss, and cuttings from tropical plants. Add a few drops of water and seal the glass receptacle with a cork to create a self-sustaining environment. It's a special way to bring a little nature into your home.

If these affordable shakers can dispense the right amount of spices to your food, there's no reason why they can't dispense the perfect sprinkle of glitter onto your kid's — or your — craft projects. Simply fill any Dollar Tree salt or pepper shaker with a different color of glitter, then display them in the children's art room. If you're making them for your own craft room, decorate the shakers with glitter paint or accessorize them with ribbons, fabric, gems, or any other adornments that match your aesthetic.