![]() ![]() This is what it should look like once you cut along those lines. We’re going to do a pie-cut, so draw lines like this that we’ll cut along. The circumference of the circle you cut should be just bigger than the vertical circumference of your dog’s head. We want to cut a hole in the front of the face just below the minion’s goggles for the dog’s face. Cardboard (not really thick cardboard like from a moving box – more something like cereal box cardboard).Make sure to get the “Kevin” character, and also make sure to buy the overalls for Kevin, which are sold separately. ![]() Black fabric, like an old t-shirt or something.Hot glue gun (you could also sew it probably.Ready? Let’s build a minions dog costume. There is a full video tutorial below, as well as a step-by-step guide with pictures lower down.You be the best judge by looking at the video/guide. If your dog is over 15 pounds, I don’t know how well this will fit.Just a heads up, but if you think you got this, then go for it! □ Even on my third time making it for Crusoe I had to make adjustments after it was finished. It wasn’t the simplest costume I made and it most likely won’t fit perfectly on your dog the first time. So here’s a tutorial on how to make the minions costume yourself for your dog. ![]() We’ve never had so many people ask us how to make a costume than for the minions costumes, as seen in these popular videos: Thank goodness Stevie thought quickly and she ended up sewing the elastic together and on the lids.Crusoe’s Dad here. I thought that hot glue would hold the lids together but boy was I wrong. ![]() She got Mason Jar Lids from Wal-Mart and I went to Pat Catan’s to get elastic. Hop on over to her site to see some of her adventures.z I asked her dance instructor if I could make goggles and thankfully she said yes! Of course I enlisted my bestie Stevie to help with this seeing as she is a DIY extraordinaire! At the time it didn’t bother me but when I posted pictures of Mad in her costume on picture day I was really sick of telling people that she was not a Mario Brother but a minion. They are minions and the cutest minions I’ve ever seen! For some reason her dance studio opted out of purchasing the goggles that came with their costume. Madison’s dance recital is coming up in three weeks! Her beginning Jazz class is Dancing to the song “Happy” from despicable Me 2 movie. Reblogged this on Salamon's Salamanders and commented: Like I said, I will be adding a picture of the girls in costume with the goggles and hopefully they don’t look as weird as we do! Here is a sample of our googly eyed goggles. The girls are using the goggles as headbands, that’s why we have eyes in ours. Using the insert to the lid to hold the eye in place, I used my hot glue gun to lay a layer of glue around the edge and held it tightly together for a few seconds while it set. We also tested a few different methods of attaching the eyes in the lens before settling on a caulking like method. We enlisted Tony to draw the eyes, going googly, as he’s the least likely to screw them up. I ended up taking a piece of the elastic she had purchased for the bands and used my über basic sewing skills to attach the two lenses, for the double eyed minions anyway.įigure out the length you need to go around your head, or your child’s head, and give yourself maybe an extra inch to sew.Īttach the elastic to your lenses, like so. We tried hot gluing them together, but it didn’t adhere very well to the metal lid. We started off with canning lids as the lenses. We kicked around several ideas before settling on this one. They are dressing as minions for their number and for whatever reason, they didn’t buy the goggles with the costumes. My friend Jenna asked if I would help her make minion goggles for her daughter’s dance recital. However, my friend Jenna and I completely altered this to suit our own needs so there is no longer an original reference to this craft! Originally, I did have a pin for this one. ![]()
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