1/22/2024 0 Comments Diy purple minion costumesBEFORE you glue the circle together cut into the foam (not all the way through) where you want to goggle lens to be. The Goggle will also be made of eva foam. Once dry glue into place.Īll Fleeced Up Making the Goggle and Headers Draw on the tule a circle and paint your eyeball with acrylic pain. Making your eyeball, measure some tule just over the length of your eye and make sure you have two layers. Next where the holes for mouth, arms and eye are make a cut and make several slashes (see above picture) so that you can easily glue the fabric back with the least amount of gathers. Make sure your seams meet correctly at the back and spray well. Cover the eye holes, arm holes and mouth as you go. (Selvage edge of fabric that prevents fraying). If you can use the selvage of the material on the rim. To start to cover the body start at the back and roll the fabric around spraying and stretching the fabric as you go. If you have made a evil minion cover his lip first (see picture). Now we will cover the minion using the adhesive spray and fleece. The eva rubber will heat easy enough to mould. Cut a grimacing mouth line, this is where we will use the heat gun, to shape the minions mouth into a snarl. If you are making a evil minion it will be slightly different. Use pool noodles as padding for your shoulders.įor your arms you will just need to know where you wish to place them (see Arms section).Now you will decide where to place the mouth. You will need to adjust to suit your height. Shape metal rod to make a u shape, that will still across your shoulders. You can bolt together until the glue dries. Make a ring the same diameter the same as the minion and fix with Tarzan glue. To reinforce the body we used metal strapping that is normally used to nail wooden joists together. See below the Evil Minion eye and Happy minion eye shapes. Only 3/4 of the eye was cut out from the foam. The bottom of our eye was at 7.5” from the rim and the circumference was 9.5”. Once dry, glue into the groove made in the head. Once you cut the body length and width glue the seam together with Automotive Trim Adhesive. Circumference of Head = Width of your body. You will need a quarter of the body for your pants. So, the body will be about 3/4 of the height. Where the join meets the head is where you eye will be (where you will see out of). Head circumference will be the width of your body. You will want to cut a foam ring and then add another piece on top, creating a small mountain to cover with fruit. Paint several coats of Fiberglass resin onto the paper maché, this will make it waterproof.įor the minion with the fruit on his head. When dry cut a groove out of the glue around the rim, this is where the eva foam will sit. Make sure you have expanding glue around the interior rim. You will now want to spray the interior with expanding glue, this will make it stronger. Slowly deflate the exercise ball and cut in half trying to keep the exercise ball in tact. About 25 layers should be sufficient, just allow each one to dry in between. To create the head blow up an exercise ball and cover with newspaper and use the Wallpaper glue as the adhesive, so it won’t go moldy. List of requirements is listed at the bottom of the page. You will want to know someone who can sew and someone who can weld. Once created, this minion will be a two person job to dress into. First of all – Be prepared for this to take several months of weekends, so start in advance.
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