It is always much more fun and affordable to make costumes at home the DIY way. If you are looking for a DIY minion costume to do here is 8 different ideas that you can choose from and create yourself at home.
1. DIY Minion Costume With Multi-Sport Helmet
This DIY Minion Costume With Multi-Sport Helmet is the perfect minion costume for a mom looking for a multi-use costume. All of the clothes for this costume can be worn all year long without the minions helmet. Whereas the helmet can be used during the summer for bike riding and such. Here’s what you will need for this minion costume:
- Minion Helmet: They have two different minions to choose from. This helmet was originally made for safety but it can double as a great costume hat.
- Blue Jean Overalls
- Yellow long sleeve shirt
- Black gloves
- Black foam and tape: For the G symbol on the minions costume overalls
2. DIY Minion Hat
This DIY minion hat takes a different approach from the first one. Instead of buying a helmet it shows you how to make your very own minion hat, which is essentially even better. Here’s what you will need to make the minion hat:
- Two mason jar lids: These become the minions goggles
- A Grommet Tool: to put holes in the jar lids for the straps
- A Silver Grommet: To get the goggles to stick together
- Black Nylon Strap: To put the goggles on the hat
- A Black Buckle for the black nylon strap
- A Glue Gun: To glue the pipe cleaners to the hat
- Yellow foam: For part of the eyes
- Two whiffle balls: for the eyes
- Yellow Stocking Hat: The base of this project
- Black Pipe Cleaners: To be used as minion hair.
3. DIY Minion Mask
This DIY Minion Felt Mask is another unique way to make a minion costume. This costume will be sure to turn some heads and get some compliments for how original it is. Here’s the materials you need to make it:
- Yellow Felt: You are going to need enough felt to wear it like a mask when it is all finished so make sure you grab enough at the store
- Scissors
- Black Pipe Cleaners: These are for the hair on top of your minion masks head
- Downloadable minion Patterns for an adult size and a child size
- Hot Glue Gun: To glue the felt together for a mask and for gluing the pipe cleaner hair on
4. DIY Minion Tutu Costume Dress
This adorable DIY Minion Tutu Costume Dress is perfect for any little girl who wants a chic DIY minion costume. It is super easy and affordable to make and will cost you much less then any store bought handmade costume dress does. This is what you will need in order to create this Minion costume dress:
- Crochet Top: This is the top of the minion dress
- Blue Tulle: To make the tutu part of the dress
- Crochet Band: For band around the dress
- Black Felt and White Felt: For the minion eyes
- Silver Trim: For goggles around eyes on the band
- Hot Glue Gun: For gluing eyes together on band
- Blue Ribbon: Straps of the dress
5. DIY Teen Girl Minion Costume
This DIY Teen Girl Minion Costume is the perfect DIY for any teen girl who wants to dress up as a minion but does not want to spend the money on a store bought costume. Here is what you will need to get in order to make this costume:
- A long sleeve yellow shirt, a yellow beanie, and yellow leggings for the base of the outfit:
- Black Pipe Cleaners for the minion hair
- Overall Dress: Part of the base of the costume
- Black Buttons: For the overall dress
- Sharpie: For the Gru Logo
- PVC Pipe: For goggles
- Spray Paint: For goggles
- Bolts: For the goggles
- Elastic: Also for the goggles
- Glue Gun: To glue parts of the goggles together
6. DIY Hard Hat Minion Costume
This DIY Hard Hat Minion Costume is another way to make a minion costume. This particular DIY uses a plastic hard hat as the minion head instead of a beanie so it is much more useful in months of the year when it is hotter outside. Here’s what you will need for this DIY Costume:
- Mason Jar Lids: For the eyes
- A Yellow Plastic Hard Hat: As the base of the minion face
- Black Elastic: For the minion goggles
- Tape
- Scissors
- White Card: Print Eyes and Logo onto this
- A yellow t-shirt: For the shirt of the minion costume
- Blue Jeans or Overalls: For the pants of the minion costume
7. DIY Googly Eye Minion T-Shirt Costume
This DIY Googly Eye Minion T-Shirt Costume shows how to make it for a child but you could easily make these T-Shirt Costumes for adults by simply just buying an adult size yellow T-Shirt instead of a children’s size. Here’s what you will need to get this done:
- Yellow T-Shirt: If you want to make one for an adult buy an adult shirt and to make a kids one buy a kids shirt in their size
- Big Googly Eye: This is for the minion’s eye on your shirt
- Black and Grey Fabric Paints: To Paint the Minion goggles, goggles strap, and mouth
- Velcro: To attach and detach the Googly eye from the shirt. It has to come off the shirt every time you wash it
- Craft Glue: To glue the Velcro to the back of the Googly eye
- Needle and Thread: To sew the Velcro onto the T-Shirt
8. No Sew DIY Minion Costume
This No Sew DIY Minion Costume is by far one of the best DIY ideas out there. Not only is it easy to achieve but you don’t have to sew anything which makes this project less time consuming. This is what you will need for this project:
- A wide shallow bowl for the head
- Large Size Poster Board: For the body
- Yellow Spray Paint: For spray painting the bowl yellow
- Duct Tape: For goggle strap on minion goggles
- Drill: To drill holes for hair in the bowl
- Pipe Cleaners: For minion hair
- Large Black Buttons: You will need two of these for minion’s overalls
- Black Sharpie: To draw the Gru Logo on the overalls
- Large Jar Lids: For the eyes
- Glue Gun: for gluing stuff onto costume
- Blue fabric: For minion clothes
- Fabric Scraps: To put inside shoulders for comfort
These DIY Costume plans are simple, easy, and affordable to accomplish. Everyone will be asking you where you got your costume and you will get to say you handmade it from scratch. Good luck on making these DIY costume plans reality.
