After the hood was attached, I layered some felt circles in gray, white and black for the eye and goggle and sewed them on. Then, I sandwiched the hair in between the hood pieces, and sewed the hood as usual. I didn't make an official step-by-step tutorial because this is such a simple project, but I'll give you a rundown of what I did: I followed the Henday Hoodie pattern as usual, but when it came to making the hood, I folded a square of felt in half and cut strips almost to the center to make hair. Last year, Connor chose to be a dragon (you can find the DIY here.) This year, I thought for sure he'd choose the same thing since his interests are few, so when he asked to be a Minion from the movie Despicable Me, I got really excited. Our neighborhood is full of many young families, and all of them are out on Halloween having a good time. I always ask my kids what they want to be for Halloween, and for the past several years, my daughter has always gone as one of the Disney princesses. Here in Pittsburgh, it's very much a family-centered community, and that includes trick-or-treating. The long walk up those winding driveways were rewarded with full-size candy bars :) When we got a little older, my dad would drive us to the "rich neighborhoods" where they would hand out the really good stuff. We knew which houses were the ones giving out the best candy.and which ones were the ones giving out toothbrushes. My brother and I would dress up each year and set out as early as we could to maximize our loot. (The anchor will hold each of the pipe cleaners in place.) Spread the pipe cleaner hairs apart on the top of the hat for a more dramatic effect.Halloween is near, and that means candy.I mean costumes! I've always loved trick-or-treating. Twist the folded area and bend it to the left to create an anchor inside the hat. Put the folded sections of pipe cleaner through each of the air vents in the top of the hat.Cut the pipe cleaner in half and fold them in half.When you get to the back of the hat tie a bow with the remaining ribbon.Then I moved to another section off ribbon until I got to the back of the hat. I sewed a couple tiny stitches in, knotted the thread and then cut it. Make sure you pull the ribbon tight before adding the next stitch. Using black thread and the needle sew tiny stitches through the ribbon and hat.Try to make sure that there is the same amount of ribbon on both sides of the foil covered section. Cut a horizontal slit on each side of the foil covered section to create a place to put the ribbon through.Cut slight curve on the bottom the section that will be facing the baseball hat to match the curve of the hat.Draw an eyeball on the styrofoam ball that is facing out.Push the styrofoam ball into the section.Cover the section with the foil insulation tape on the outside and cover the top edge of the section with tape.Cut one section off a Pringles container.A couple were purchased at our local five and dime. We had several of the items needed already at home. The big costume element we needed to create as the minion hat. I did find a yellow baseball cap at Academy Sports. All of the hat examples I had seen on Pinterest were yellow knit hats. I decided that we would have to go with it. While I was on the hunt for them, I did come across a short sleeve t-shirt for $3 at Walmart. I couldn’t find one online or in any of our local stores. I looked and looked for long sleeve yellow t-shirt or hooded sweatshirt. The overhalls were easy to find and were a great deal. I found a couple of them and pinned them to my Halloween Ideas board.Early this fall I started to look for the costume components. I started looking online for costume ideas when he announced that this would be his costume to look for minion costume ideas. He decided this summer after seeing the first Despicable Me costume on a neighbor’s DVD that he wanted to be minion. I need to figure out how to make a Halloween Despicable Me minion costume for JDaniel.
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