How to Spruce Up a Metal Toy Bin With Fabric

If you have kids, you likely feel you can never have enough storage. Thankfully, the dollar store can help. It’s a wonderful place to find bins and buckets galore. I found these adorable galvanized metal buckets for $2.50 and thought they would be ideal for storing some little toy cars.

Well, they looked adorable, but the noise they made? Not ideal! Every time a car was dropped into the bin it made me jump. And my son loves noise, so banging things into the pail became his new favourite game.

The solution? A Dollarama cushion cover. I found these heavy tweed cushion covers by the tablecloths for $2. They are the perfect size to line the bucket, and heavy enough to muffle the noise.

Instructions

• Cut the zipper off of the cushion cover.
• Fold the edge of the cover over about 3 inches – like this:
• Place the folded cover into the pail and line up the seams with the handle holes.
• Hot glue along the edge and glue the folded edge to the pail, like this:
• I kept the fabric seam lined up with the handle holes, and at the end I simply glued down the extra fabric left.

This little trick worked like a charm. Toys can be banged, dropped, and thrown into the pail with barely a sound – perhaps to the despair of my toddler, but to the relief of my head!

I love toy storage solution that is fun and cute. For quite sometime I will be living in a home consumed with little cars and trucks, crayons and dolls, and I truly wouldn’t want it any other way - but it is nice to have an organized home.

Ensuring everything has it’s place will allow your little one to help with tidying up, too – which is a very important skill to have!

What type of toy storage do you have in your home?