Here's a little something we've been working on to add to our Easter sidetable:
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Minion Eggs! |
Here's How To Make Them
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1. Dye some eggs a good deep yellow. (Head egg-dying bunny, Theresa, shown here) Some of our Minion eggs were "blown out," the rest, boiled. Note: we found it works better to dye the blown out eggs before emptying them, as the dye just fills the "blow holes," otherwise. |
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2. Take a bit of blue foam or doubled-up construction paper, cut out as shown above -- approximately 5 1/2 inches long by about 1" tall -- with little suspenders notched in. (Or the "bib" on overalls) Then add details with a black sharpie and hot glue into a circle for little overall egg stands, as shown below.
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3. Cut a piece of 1/4" black elastic (though black paper would work, too, I'm sure) to fit around your egg.
4. Glue 1/4" googly eyes (or eye) to the elastic inside 1/4" silver eyelette (smashed flat) --Alternatively, silver sparkle paper (got ours at W-mart) can be cut into "goggles" very nicely
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(Should look something like this) |
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5. Draw the mouth on with a black sharpie if it's an empty-headed Minion, but you might want to use food-writer markers for the hard-boiled Minions to be safe. (You can get Wilton fine tip food writing markers at Joann's)
6. Hot glue all the pieces to the egg for the non-edible Minions, but leave their accessories removable for the boiled eggs. |
We love Minions!
(Fair Warning: the following clip is perfectly full of bad imitative behaviour...)
We're working on making some props for our little Minions next... We're going to make little guy a diver and use a bent straw for the snorkel (We saw this idea in
Family Fun magazine). And we thought it'd be fun to figure out how to make a butterfly net for another one... The possibilities are endless! Except... We haven't figured out a graceful way to give them arms...Or hair. Poor little armless, bald Minions. Any ideas?
These are so funny! Thanks for sharing. Family Fun is a super resource.
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