one in a MINION

We love Despicable Me at the Cooper household.  We think the minions are hilarious so when I saw THIS pin, I knew we had to make them for KMC's class party favors.  She even helped me make them!  It's cool getting to do crafty stuff with my girl and seeing her get as excited about it as I do!

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I am a terrible cutter so when the original post said to cut out 3 small circles per minion, I thought no way.  So I just made the layered goggle eye on the computer.  I had to make 16 for KMC's class so that was PLENTY of cutting in my book.  I know all of you super crafty moms probably have a circle punch this size (1inch) but I don't.  So that's why they are a little rough.

Then I made the heart with the saying in Adobe Illustrator and printed them out.  HERE is the free printable with the eyes and hearts made for you!  All you have to do is print as many as you need and get to cutting!

Then I got one piece of black construction paper and cut it into strips.

Once I had everything cut out, KMC and I used our handy glue dots to secure everything in place on the twinkles.

The last step was to draw little smiles on them with a sharpie!

Her class was pretty excited to see that they had their very own minion and that it was edible too!  :-)