Ooops! I meant to post about the girls minion costumes and how we made them, then I forgot.
So, I got the idea via pinterest but the original site is here.
The girls adore the film Despicable Me, i daren't count how many times they have watched it since we got it... we are well into double figures.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about then this should make it absolutely no clearer.
Anyway, the girls were excited that they would get to dress up as minions and enjoy toilet talk *sigh*
We needed 3 pairs od dungarees... we already had these, okay so everyone had to wear a size slightly too small since we didn't have any in Charlotte's size but that kind of worked to the advantage of the costume.
We ordered some rather yellow hoodies online- we started out with a price of £10 per hoodie and ended up with some crazy deal where they cost about £5 each (plus a free blue one for Minnie). And they were completely reusable as normal clothing afterwards.
The girls used their own black tights/ socks, gloves and shoes.
We bought yellow face paint, we opted for the professional stuff as we needed a strong colour and the girls were all getting dressed up at least twice so there had to lots of it.
The goggles, were a work of genius on the part of my husband. Made from toilet roll tubes and black stickyback plastic (he was gutted to realise we had some silver when he finished making them, oops) that he had left over from some project or other he did with his archery kit. Attached with a length of plain elastic. Bosh done.
All in the costumes cost us less than £20 for all three, and we can use the hoodies, dungarees, gloves etc again. Charlotte even won the "Best Costume" Prize at the Brownie Party, yet I have failed miserably to take a picture of her on her own. Whoops.
Now, to get them to do my bidding and put all my evil world domination plans in place.
Or win me a fluffy unicorn {image from here}
