You don’t have to speak Minionese to wear these awesome costumes, but it definitely helps. Funny and lovable, you will have so much fun creating these DIY Despicable Me and Minions costumes.
There is something about those domed heads that simultaneously makes us laugh and want to hug them. Once you see these, you will have a hard time resisting making them for Halloween this year.
There are so many creative takes on recreating Gru (it helps if you have a bald head) and the Minions. And when you get a group together, you can share in the costume making and hilarity.
Minions come in all shapes and sizes in this collection of Despicable Me and Minions costumes. All the construction secrets are revealed here! Get inspired to create your own evil Gru, nonsensical Minion or even Kyle Dog. You will even see a Minion Batman and a 3PO Minion.
So sit back, grab some bapples and get ready to laugh at this super fun selection of Despicable Me and Minions costume designs.
“It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die!” Six of the most quotable words squealed by one of the cutest fictional kids ever to prance onto the big screen. For those of you who haven’t seen Despicable Me, get off of this computer right now and zoom to the nearest modern-day-version of Blockbuster! (Ahh, the good old … Read more
My 4 year old really likes the Despicable Me movies, and fell in love with the minions. As soon as he saw the evil purple minions, he declared that’s what he wanted to be for Halloween. I spent a couple of months researching toddler and purple minion costumes until I found one that I liked. … Read more
Sitting at the the bus stop one morning in early October, I asked the kids of any ideas they wanted to be for Halloween that year and I got the usual responses. My son said “I’ll be an army man or police officer”, to which my reply was “no, you’ve already been that”. My daughter said “I’ll … Read more
First of all – Be prepared for this to take several months of weekends, so start in advance. Once created, this minion will be a two person job to dress into. You will want to know someone who can sew and someone who can weld. List of requirements is listed at the bottom of the … Read more
To create this toddler minion costume, I started off with a foam mattress that I cut to fit my 22 month old daughter. The Body Cut the top of the mattress like a flower to get it to fold and form a round head. Used Velcro and hot glue to keep the seam together on … Read more
When starting this costume I was determined to make it a no sew costume let me tell u the hot glue gun became my best friend. I spent about 8 hrs on each costume and less then 40$ each but it was all well worth it. My kids and I could not walk anywhere with … Read more
For the Despicable Me group costume we used contractors cardboard cut into giant toilet paper rolls – exercise ball in the middle with foil over it so we could paper mache domes in the tops – yellow paint, then spackle buckets and country crock containers for the goggles (painted silver). Camping mat for the goggle … Read more
When my 12 year old son asks you to make him a costume, I knew it would probably be the last year he would ask me so I went all out. The head is actually an umbrella hat and the costume us made of car interior headliner. After searching for yellow headliner, I found that … Read more
This homemade minion costume was made from scratch. Chevy’s birthday is on Halloween (10/31/2009) so every year he is the talk of the town. They neighbors expect him to shock them every time. Mind you, I made this costume the night before his birthday (Halloween). I was asked by the whole neighborhood if I could … Read more
I have always enjoyed hand-making themed costumes for my kiddos, so when they all came up with the idea of Minions I couldn’t say no to the challenge… not only did my kids want minions, but all of my nieces did as well. So the challenge was ON! I am huge on reusable materials rather … Read more
My son wanted to be a minion for Halloween. We went to go look at costumes and they were just really bad so I figured he would look better if i just threw on some yellow pjs an overalls and not to mention so much CHEAPER!! So I started browsing the internet for some ideas and … Read more
Each year our family chooses a theme and this Despicable Me family costume was pretty simple! They all got away from me before a picture could be taken…by this time, some of their costumes were starting to shift or come off! A lot of things were found at the second hand stores. The lab coat … Read more