How to make a Minion costume

The minions are very peculiar characters that appear in the movie of Gru, my favorite villain. They are the loyal workers of Gru, always ready to lend themselves to any experiment. The minions are characterized as small creatures, short stature, with suppository form, yellow skin and have very large eyes. The minions have become one of the most popular costumes, both for Halloween night and for the Carnival party . If you want to know how to make a Minion costume quickly and easily, in this article we show you the steps.

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One of the most characteristic features of the minions is the yellow color of their skin. To get to simulate this yellow skin for our homemade minion costume, the simplest thing is to take a yellow hooded sweatshirt. It is very important that you have a hood so you can cover your head and make the costume more real. If you do not have a yellow sweatshirt but a shirt, you can use it and cover your head with a yellow cap. Do not forget to make up your face with facial paint for yellow costumes.

Another of the elements that can not be missing in your minion costume are the black gloves . Sure you have in your closet a pair of simple black gloves for winter that you can use for your costume for Halloween or Carnival.

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The Villano Gru has the minions working all day and, for this, they wear a very characteristic uniform. Simulating the work uniform of the minions is very simple! You just have to take a normal denim bib and sew in the center of the chest the letter G in black. The lyrics can be done with felt, for example. As you can see, this disguise for Halloween or Carnival so original is already taking shape and begins to look like a minion.

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Make a minion costume is very easy, for shoes, for example, any black shoe serves. And, if you do not have black shoes, a very effective trick is to make a lining for your shoes with black felt.

The first thing you must do to cover the shoes of the minion costume with felt is to take the measurements of the shoe you want to cover. To do this, place the felt on the shoe as close as possible and draw with a marker (other than black) the shape of the shoe. Then, cut the black felt and you will see that it is more or less like the pattern of the photograph. To make it as simple as possible you do not even need to, you can stick the ends with Velcro . Cut a Velcro strip and sew the male side to one end of the felt and the female side to the other end, with black thread. And ready! In just a few minutes you will have black minion shoes.

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At this point we have almost all the homemade minion costume made, but some key elements are still missing. Among them, the hairs on the head . It's very easy, you just have to take three or four black cleaning tubes or pipe cleaners and cut them in half. Once cut, you can give it an arched shape or leave them stiff, as you like because each of the minios takes the hairs in a different way. When you have the shape done, heat them to the hood of the sweatshirt or the yellow cap and that's it! We almost finished our Halloween costume, there is only one last step left.

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The glasses are the last step to finish our minion costume and a key element. You can buy them already made in a costume store or make them yourself. To make them yourself, you will only need cardboard, silver paint, a stapler and an elastic black ribbon. Cut two long strips of cardboard. Take one of the strips, join the ends making a round and grápalos. Do the same with the other strip. Then, paint the two spheres with the silver paint.

When the paint has dried, join the two spheres and grápalas by the center so that they are completely together, like the glasses of the minions. Once this is done, take the black elastic band and cut it to fit your head or whoever is going to disguise as a minion. Staple each end of the tape to a different sphere and you'll have your minion glasses.

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It's that easy and fast! In a short time you can make your homemade minion costume ideal for Halloween night and the Carnival party. If you are a group of friends or you want to disguise the whole family with original costumes, here we show you the costumes for more fun groups.

And if you would like to disguise yourself as the evil version of these little characters, do not miss the article How to make a Purple Minion costume.

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If you want to make a Minion costume for a woman, then we will discover the changes that you must add to the costume to be perfect. The first thing you have to take into account is that the Minion in women differs, basically, because instead of wearing a trouser bib usually has a bib that ends in a skirt so you can reuse one that you already have at home and, if you do not have it, you can wear a skirt or jeans shorts and wear a yellow shirt that you can put on top.

If you choose this second option, we recommend that you stick in the area of ​​the belly of the shirt the symbol of the Minions that are in the center of the bib so that, so, there is no doubt about your costume. This symbol can be done with a black card or a piece of black cloth, cut it as they look Minions and sew it or stick it to your shirt with staples or super glue .

Leave your hair loose to enhance your femininity and put the eyes of the Minions over your head, as you can see what the girl in the image does; If you are cold enough to go with your bare legs, opt for some stockings that are up to your thigh and that are black or yellow, you will be beautiful!