We will need:
- Several types of fabrics of different colors and materials (better stretch):
- Yellow or light green fabric: for the body and hands;
- Black: for hands, mouth. And also black tape for glasses;
- Stretch in cheerful colors: for minion clothes;
- Old knitted fabric (for unraveling) or thread: for hair.
- Five-liter plastic bottle;
- CDs: 3 pcs;
- Velcro tape (Velcro): about 4 centimeters;
- Large bright buttons: 2 pcs;
- Glue or tape.
We should not get an ordinary minion, but a minion-box: we can store some small things in it.
Process of creation:
1. Prepare the bottle. Cut off the neck of the bottle and cut it in half.
Leave only 10 centimeters so that the top does not come off the bottom.
We cut 2 holes on each side in the upper part, near the very middle cut.
We make the bottom one a little larger.They will be needed to attach the minion's hair and arms.
2. Creation of the body. We measure two pieces from the yellow fabric.
Size: bottle volume + 10 centimeters for bends. We sew two opposite edges to put the “skin” on the bottle.
Sew everything to the bottle.
There is no need to sew the fabric on top, as there will be hair here.
At this stage we have the following design.
3. Doing your hair. We took an old knitted sweater and unraveled it. This method is more convenient than using threads, since by leaving a small part unraveled, we will get rid of unnecessary hassle when attaching the hair.
We thread the threads through the hole in the disk: the loose part slipped through easily, but the untouched part prevents the disk from falling and thereby fixes the threads.
We release the hair from the inside of the bottle to the outside.
The disc will serve as the “root” of the minion’s hair: it will prevent it from falling.
Now we sew the top fabric to the bottle, and at the same time grab the fabric part of the hair (you can use threads from unraveling to make it unnoticeable).
We fluff the threads and tie them at the ends of the braid. We thread them first into the lower hole cut on the side of the bottle, then into the upper one.
It should look like Pippi Longstocking's braids.
4. Let's move on to the eyes.
We will need:
• Colour pencils;
• Scissors;
• Scotch tape or glue;
• Ribbon;
• Landscape sheet.
Draw the minion's eye.
We outlined a circle along the disk and stepped back from the edges about two centimeters (approximately).
This point is very important, since the remaining part of the disk will serve as the frame of the glasses. Cut out the resulting drawing.
Glue the eye to the disk.
5. Making the glasses frame. Here, if desired, you can use glue or tape. At the time of creation, we didn’t have “child-safe” glue on hand, so we took tape. We place the tape on top of the disk and cover it with another.
Glue it together.The glasses are ready.
All that remains is to tie it on the head and sew it on so that the eyes do not wander around the body.
6. Next step: creating a skirt. Since we used stretch fabric, we simply sewed two edges together and folded the others. You can immediately sew buttons on the sides. They will hold the minion's outfit and will also be needed for further modifications.
7. Sew hand holders.
The arms will play the role of a “connector” between the top and bottom, so they will look like this.
Sew the fabric together to create two strips.
Draw a hand template (minions have 3 fingers: don’t forget!).
Cut it out.
Sew it together.
Let's stuff it.
We connect the strips and the hand so that we get the option already shown earlier. We attach the hands to the bottom hole (that's why it should be wider) on the side of the minion like this.
8. Final stage: Hollywood smile.
We will need:
• Cardboard;
• White fabric;
• Black fabric;
• Velcro tape.
Create a smile template from cardboard and sew it to black fabric.
We sew Velcro on one side.
On the other hand, we make teeth from white fabric (for the effect of teeth, we simply pulled the fabric a little in some places with black threads).
We sew the other part of the Velcro to the body of the minion to make additional fastening. We sew the top of the smile to the body itself.
It turns out to be such a cute, toothy smile.
Well, our minion is ready.
By the way, we were inspired to create a cute minion in disguise by looking at the drawing.
Good luck!
