When you are crafty like me Halloween can be a busy time. Often some poor soul comes a knocking, looking for me to create a magical themed costume for two, in less than a week, for no more than eternal gratefulness. I know it's hard to imagine, but this is not always possible. The poor soul customarily leaves with an amazingly executed, guise attaining, borrowed costume that did in fact take months to make (last year) and cost about two months worth of groceries.
 

This year something happened. Someone needed my help and I was able to produce!

   I think they turned out first rate. I was only in charge of the headwear, thankfully, or I may not have agreed. This project will eat half a day, if you are like me and have most of the small supplies on hand already, and have a sewing machine all set up and prepared to sew. If you do not have these luxuries, prepare to order pizza for dinner because you'll be here all day. In the event you would like to proceed anyhow and recreate these cherished 'Minion' toques, I'm including a tutorial with lots of pictures.

Start with a trip to the fabric store for some yellow fleece. I bought 1/2 a metre. Then make a rectangle that wraps all the way around your head but not too tight. Sew up a simple toque with a nice rounded top. I then used an awl (pointy stabber thingy) to start some holes for the bits of pipe cleaner to go through. You want to cut the pipe cleaners twice as long as you want the hair, and poke both pointy ends through to the top of the hat (so there are no sharp ends poking your head). 

Now comes the part where we dig through the kitchen to find some canning jar rings in different sizes, hopefully silver coloured. As you can see from the pictures, it's starting to look hopeful already!

Here I acquired some enlarged minion eyeballs, printed them out, glued them to cardboard (I used spray adhesive), and trimmed them so they fit just snug inside the lower edge of the canning ring. Do not glue them in until you add some 'lenses' to the goggles with transparencies (you could repurpose a strawberry or muffin plastic clamshell type container instead). Just some dabs of super glue on the top inside edge to glue in the lens, and then snugly fit in the cardboard backing eye, adding a few more dabs of superglue to keep it in place. Looking good! All it needs now is a band!

   I whipped up the band on the sewing machine out of some black sweatshirt type material and sewed some  extra yellow tabs that are to be glued to the back of the eye for extra durability, while the ends of the black bands are glued to the side of the goggle for style. I used Gorilla Glue epoxy that dries crystal clear, some elastics to keep it all in place while drying, and a book to weigh it down so the back tabs glue properly (as you can see from the photos). To add it to the toque, I simply tacked it with a few hand stitches in three places so the goggles can be easily removed if you need to wash the hat.

And that is all you need! 

Ok, maybe not. 

You do need the rest of the outfit, but now your halfway there!