Purple Minion Costume for Kids

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Once you have your strips cut out (I ended up using around 200 or more), you’ll start hot gluing them to the head. To figure out how to create evil minion hair and makeup I wrote a separate section just on Purple Minion Make up and Hair to give you ideas for creating your own purple minion crazy styles. I asked him if he wanted to be a regular yellow minion (we had just watched the new Despicable Me 3 movie in theaters). This costume took me about 16+ hours to complete, BUT that’s because I did templates and trial runs before I made parts of the costume. 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”.

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.

This costume breakdown tutorial was originally featured as the Make a Purple Evil Minion Costume lens originally on Squidoo now on HubPages.

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. I cut out an M for El Macho with my cutter and ironed it on the costume, then we used buttons and glued them to the straps of the overalls to make it appear more realistic.We started with white felt, but I hated how the teeth wouldn’t stay up, so I ended up ripping out the felt when we were finished with the costume and added the white craft foam teeth. I did 3 different trial runs with different products to use to style the hair and the one I liked the most was using the strong hold hairspray. Back in July my little boy and I started having the discussion of what he wanted to be for Halloween. If the rest of your costume is long sleeves and a turtleneck, there is less exposed skin to cover with purple face paint. 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?

This costume could be less involved or more involved depending on how many hours you want to dedicate to it. I cut the bib part out separately and honestly I think it would have looked better as a solid piece on the purple minion costume. Gru’s girls get to play heros by shooting some pretty nasty tasting jelly at the purple minions to change them back into the silly yellow ones. For those who want to have an Evil Minion Costume, but don’t want to go to too much effort like perhaps teens and some tweens, the simplest way to dress like a purple minion is to just wear a purple minion shirt like the one to the right or one of the other purple minion shirts. 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.Something that also helped was leaving a little fabric to hang over the ends so I could hot glue the ends down under the costume.