Purple Minion Costume for Kids

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For the evil minion, you will need to color the yellow parts of the minion showing purple and turn the brown minion eyes purple to match the evil purple minion. For help in making your own purple minion goggles, see the 5 Easy Ways to Make a Pair of Minion Goggles page for several simple ways to make a pair of one-eyed or two-eyed goggles.

My husband is a detail-oriented person and had a great idea of adding dimension to the mouth by adding strips of craft foam and covering it with fabric. Once the fabric is added to the core of the body, you’ll want to go ahead and cut out the place for the eye.This was the most time consuming part… I bought a purple wig at first and hated how it looked, so I started scouring the internet finding ideas to make the hair of the purple minion costume more realistic. Are you one of those crazy mom’s like me who loves for your child to wear a handmade costume, but in the middle of the process you ask yourself – why do I do this every year? I was going to sew the gloves on the sleeves, but my husband suggested not to so the costume would be more mobile. Back in July my little boy and I started having the discussion of what he wanted to be for Halloween.

This costume breakdown tutorial was originally featured as the Make a Purple Evil Minion Costume lens originally on Squidoo now on HubPages.If you want to have really long arms, you may have to do a bit of stitching to create long skinny purple tubes from purple fabric. Once I had the yarn teased and fluffed I used strong hold hairspray and hairsprayed the strands really good – don’t forget the inside too! When I wrote the original Make a Purple Evil Minion Costume lens on Squidoo in July 2013 there were no “How To’s” for making the evil purple minion costume.

I’m excited to share with you a tutorial on how we made an evil purple minion costume for our 8 year old for his Halloween costume this year! An evil purple minon costume is one of those costumes that can be easily assembled from many ordinary items with a few special extras. I put the picture below on my personal Facebook with the caption “ It’s hot and humid outside but I didn’t wanna sew inside. The color wasn’t exactly the purple I was hoping for, but we couldn’t find another purple that would work better.The page also contains links to several images of my favorite minion goggles, the downloadable printables (both one-eyed and two-eyed) that were available for the first movie, Despicable Me and a slightly different version for Despicable Me 2. To be a purple minion you need to have purple hair, but many people probably don’t want to dye their hair purple. Since I couldn’t find one, I made one, which is now one of the free downloads for the Costume Detective. At first I painted the inside grey, but my husband said black would make you pay more attention to the eye.

I then used some of the fuzz that I pulled from the hair by teasing it and hid the glued part of the strand at the bottom and used in gaps where I needed to make it appear more “fuller”. Remember, you’ll be “brushing” (actually teasing) the yarn so it’ll add a little length to the hair in the end. If black overalls are hard to find for boys or girls (adults too), consider getting black snow overalls, which can be dual-purpose and reused during the winter for snowboarding or skiing. I think this costume is going to continue to be a popular alternative (or complement) costume for Despicable Me fans who want to dress like Minions for Halloween or other occasions.I wrapped the foam around my son to measure and gave extra room for comfort, BUT with the Styrofoam head. Just be sure if you are going to use any of the yellow colored minion goggles (printable or purchased) that you colorize them for the evil minion.