When Emmy told me she wanted a “Despicable Me” birthday party, I immediately hopped on Pinterest to get ideas. Scrolling through my happy place, I stumbled across this pin from Tidbits and Twine. I obviously freaked out inside, and decided then and there that I would have minion hats at this party. This party would not even happen without these hats. I literally envisioned every future party moment with kids wearing these hats. It was happening. The crazy-craft-lady-train had left the station and wasn’t returning until it was chock-full of minion hats.
It took a few hours of my life, some yellow construction party hats and a few craft supplies – but it was sooooo worth it to make these! The kids (And even some of the grown-ups!) went crazy for these hats. Many of our party guests still have them two months later. My own girls still have their two hats in dress-up rotation, and I have to admit, I am shocked how well they actually held up!
I definitely think you should consider making a few of these if a minion party is in your future! Here’s how:
How To Make Your Own “Minion” Party Hats
Step 1: Gather your supplies! You will need:
- Plastic yellow construction party hats
- Mason jar lids
- Black pipe cleaners
- Black electrical tape
- White poster board
- Black construction paper
- Craft glue or Elmer’s glue
- Hot glue gun/hot glue sticks
- Scissors
- 1 quarter
- Pencil
Step 2: Prep your eyeballs. 🙂
To make the pupils of the eyes, trace a quarter as many times as needed (You need 1 black circle per hat.) onto the black construction paper. Cut out the circles with some scissors. (You can fold the paper in half to get it done in half the time!)
Trace your mason jar lid as many times as needed (You need 1 white circle per hat.) onto the white poster board. Cut out the circles with some scissors.
Step 3: Assemble the eyeballs!
Get your white circles, black circles and mason jar lids together.
Use the craft glue to glue the white poster board circles onto the mason jar lids.
Then glue on the black construction paper circles.
Step 4: Put on the Minion goggles.
Plug in the hot glue gun, then get your mason jar rings back from the over-excited children that stole them.
Put a thin bead of hot glue around the inner lip of the ring and push the mason-jar-lid-turned-eyeball into it. Presto minion goggle eyes!
Step 5: Give your minions hair.
I decided to do Stuart’s hair and Kevin’s hair. We will start with Kevin.
For Kevin, use a sharp knife to cut 2 holes into the raised, center part on the top of the construction hat.
Feed 4 pipe cleaners into one hole and back out the other, so that the hair is sticking out the top of the hat.
The inside of the hat will look like the above picture, with the hair poking out the top of the hat.
Trim the pipe cleaners to the desired length, and arrange into Kevin’s style!
For Stuart, use a sharp knife to cut 2 holes on the top center of the hat, parallel to the raised, center part of the hat. Feed the pipe cleaners in one side and back out the other side.
Cut to the desired length and bend into the Stuart style.
Look how cute they are already! Eeee!
Step 6: Finish them up!
Grab the eyeball goggles we made earlier, black electric tape, scissors and your hats with hair.
Start by adhering your electric tape really well to one the side of the mason jar ring.
Apply the tape around the side of the hat. This makes the band for the minion goggles, while also holding the eyeball in place.
Run the tape around the whole hat. You don’t need to hold the eyeball in place while you tape around the whole hat.
Cut the tape once it is wrapped around the whole hat, leaving enough extra to attach to the other side of the mason jar lid.
Once you have attached the eyeball in place with the other side of tape, trim any excess tape off the ends and smooth it down.
Put a thin line of hot glue on the top and bottom of the mason jar lid, right where it sits on the hat. This will help hold your eyeball in place, in addition to the tape.
There you go! Minion hats. Boom. Done.
Now all you have to do is throw your party, and watch the kids go nuts! Party time!
🙂 Kaitlyn