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#MINION COSTUME DIY FREE#

Cardboard rings from used up masking tape or Duck tape®.

Postal tubes or mailing tubes for posters.

Coloring – silver craft paint, spray paint, foil or Duck tape® (see video).

Lens(es) frames – toilet paper rolls cut into 1/2 or 1 inch rounds.

You can find cardboard tubes in a number of places and recycle or upcycle them into a pair of costume goggles. Old cardboard tubes, especially the larger one are great materials for making the Minion’s large safety goggles. Another more industrial goggle look comes from Bethany Mota who uses PVC pipe, silver spray paint, bolts, elastic and a glue gun. She made her industrial safety glasses using PVC pipe, vinyl bumpers, straps, strap adjusters and weather stripping. One of the good things about many of these projects is that most of them can be made using materials around the house like cardboard rolls, toilet paper rolls, canning jar bands, Styrofoam cups and plastic bottles.įor crafters, it is likely that they may even have black elastic, black straps and buckles and gray and black yarn available to turn into custom goggles.įor more industrial version of goggles using materials from you local hardware store (or hardware stash, rather than craft stash) take a look at the creative goggles from Ana at Tiki Crafts.

#MINION COSTUME DIY FREE#

Royalty Free Use.Ĭanning Ring or Band by CJMartin. If you want to add even more details around the edges of the minion goggle frames you can attach silver bolts (no need to paint) or vinyl bumpers/pads (need to paint) around the edges in six to eight places.Ĭardboard Roll by Asolario, Postal Mailer by Cretweb and Gray Yarn by Paks. If you want more of the two part effect use two 1/2 in sized elastic.Īttaching the lenses together and then the lenses to the band can be done with glue gun glue (hot glue), staples, a grommet (not recommended for children) or even yarn.

You could also wrap the lenses in tin foil.Ī black band using 1 inch black elastic, straps with buckles or black yarn. If the lenses are not already silver (like the Mason Jar bands or the locknut) then you need a way to turn them silver with paint, spray paint or silver/chrome Duck tape®. The lens(es) frames (the outside of the glasses) can be made from cardboard rolls, poster mailer, Styrofoam cups, canning jar bands, 2.5 to 3 inch sized locknut. Making a pair of one eyed or two eyed safety glasses so you can look like your favorite minion is pretty easy if you follow some basic instructions. Basic Instructions to Make Minion Goggles Psst – If you want to get premade Minion Safety Glasses or my personal favorites, Steampunk Styled Welding Glasses, go to the bottom of the page. For the paper version I’ve included links to one of my favorite minion goggles, the downloadable printables that were available for both Despicable Me and a slightly different version for Despicable Me 2. We found ways of making goggles using cardboard tubes, toilet paper rolls, canning jar bands, and using yarn to crochet a pair. I’ve pulled the easiest of them into this collection of 5 Easy Ways to Make a Pair of Minion Goggles.

In looking at many of the different ideas for making minion goggles, some common ideas came up for making your own pair of safety glasses.

Of course a yellow minion costume or an evil purple minion costume would not be complete without their signature goggles or safety glasses, which may be their coolest costume accessory. Minion One Eye Goggles, Minion Two Eye Goggles Psst – If you want to see what a goggle-less minion looks like jump to the down the page. They must have pretty bad eyesight, or get into a lot of mischief (which we’ve seen in the movies and the shorts), so they do need to protect their eyes. Their goggles-either one-eyed or two-eyed-are probably one of the minions’ most identifiable feature. We don’t really know why the minions wear their signature safety glasses.

There are many easy ways that you can make a pair of minion goggles or safety glasses to go along with a costume for the Minions from Despicable Me.