Minion Party Bag Craft
Minion Gift Bag Craft for your Minion birthday party
Yield: 3 bags
Cost: $10
Materials
- Yellow gift bags I have used both types - without the white handle or the yellow bag with the handle. They both work great.
- White Foam Paper
- Yellow Foam Paper
- Brown Foam Paper
- Black Felt
- Giant Google Eyes - 1.5 inches wide
- Silver Mason Jar Lid For bags with only one middle eye, the mason jar lids are 3.5 inches. The bags have two Minion eyes, which are 2.5 inches wide.
- Black Sharpie
- Glue I used a tacky glue called Fabri-Tac 3-in-1 glue. A low-temperature glue gun would also work well.
Instructions
Assembling the eyeball:
- Using the Mason Lid, trace a circle out of the white foam. For the bags with two eyeballs, trace two circles.
- Use your googly eyeball to trace around it onto the brown foam sheet, making a brown foam circle about the same size as the googly eye.
- Cut the brown foam circle out. You may need to trim it down a bit, depending on whether it will fit your googly eye.
- Flip the eyeball around and cut the back off - or mostly off.
- Insert the brown foam - where the white backing used to be - Now; you have a brown eye.
- Glue that onto the center of the white foam circle
- Glue the white foam with the eye onto the inside of the Mason jar lid.
Goggle Straps
- Cut a couple of 1/2 inch wide strips out of your black felt to make the straps for the eye goggles, and glue those on the bag, wrapping them around to the sides of the bag.
- Glue the goggle straps and eyeball or eyeballs onto the front of your bag
Minion Eye Expert Tips
- Changing the eyeball's position really changes the minions' look. If you are hosting a birthday party, having your minions pose with different expressions would be more fun. Have fun with it
Eyelids
- If you are making an eyelid for your minion - cut out a yellow foam circle the same size as your white foam circle - Cut it in half to make half circles. One half-circle is one eyelid
- Glue it down over the top half of the Minion eye
The Minion Hair:
- Cut little strips of black felt and position them on the top of the bag, above the eye - Yellow minions are balding, and look like they've had hair plugs. So use the hair sparingly.Bob: No hairStuart: three strands of hair on either side of his head, parted down the middleKevin: A little bit of hair pointed upwards
The Minion Mouth:
- Use a black Sharpie to make a frown or smile for your Minion.
Notes
Note:
The Mason Jar lids will make the bags top-heavy. Make sure you place some weight in the bag to stand them upright
Another way to keep the bags from leaning is to place a piece of tape on the inside of the bag from the front to the back