It was also funny, though, to see people’s reaction who hadn’t seen the movie.
It was fun to have strangers want to take your picture, and we brought huge smiles to lots of faces. Both cars were laughing too hard when the light turned green. She literally jumped out of her seat and grabbed her chest. I look over, and happen to see a man point us out to the woman in his car. One of the highlights of our Despicable Me costumes on Halloween night was when we were driving. “No dad, you have to say it like this ‘you will not sneeze, or burp, or fart, or do any ‘nnoying things!’” My husband practiced his accent for all of October, all the while my 5 year old, Lucy, coached him on Gru’s lines. And then we covered his whole head in lots and lots of makeup! Huge drawn eyebrows and circles under the eyes completed the look. I used spirit gum to paste the nose on my hubby just like I had done the bald cap. I did my husband’s bald cap I had never done anything like that ever before, so thank you, Youtube! I was super worried that the whole thing would be a giant flop (forecasts that it might rain on Halloween didn’t help), but it really wasn’t too hard and worked out great! It took almost 3 hours to do, so thank goodness that it did NOT rain, or our Gru would have melted! We made Gru’s nose out of a rolled up index card covered in a latex medical glove. We took a black leather coat and stuffed lots of hoodies under the shoulders to make the shape larger more hunched. Gru’s costume was the very hardest we really wanted it to look realistic. After all, Margo has brown hair, not blond like hers! So we totally got a cheap one off Ebay for $6, why not? We also got little Minion purses for Margo and Edith so that if we weren’t all together, people could still figure out what they were. We bought Agnes’s fluffy unicorn, Lucy’s wig, and a plastic lipstick pen for Lucy’s “lipstick taser!” When my 5 year old heard I would be wearing a wig, she wanted to wear one, too. Pieces we just couldn’t find, we bought on Ebay. My 2 month old did NOT like it when I strapped it to her head, so I eventually came up with the idea of cutting the legs off a pair of black tights and hot gluing the ponytail to the top it worked quite well! I laughed out loud when I realized I could use it for Agnes’ ponytail that sits right on top of her head.
#Homemade gru costume full#
One day at a thrift store, as I scoured through all the piles of Halloween stuff, I found a “ponytail.” Instead of a full wig, it was just a ponytail of fake hair. I printed out a picture of the Lorax’s head onto a sticky label and put it on a plain black tee shirt for Margot’s outfit. We found a ninja sword for Edith’s costume at the dollar store. I loved that it could stick straight up or out – it gave my costume a really cartoonish feel. Lucy’s polka dot scarf was actually a headband that had wire inside so it would keep its shape.
I took a black and gray striped sweater, cut it up and sewed it into Gru’s scarf. I was even able to find more specific items like turquoise glasses for Lucy.
#Homemade gru costume movie#
We Googled lots of pictures of the movie (since it’s not out yet on DVD) to make sure we had all the details right.Īfter enough thrift trips, we had a lot of the most important components for our Despicable me costumes. Attention to detail is very important to me I believe those small details are what make costumes really good. I seriously had a huge list of very specific items to find. I began collecting thrifted items (a plaid skirt for Margot, a ninja costume and black boots for Edith, and a trench coat for Agent Lucy Wilde…). What would be more perfect than to dress up in Despicable Me costumes from Despicable Me 2, one of our very favorite movies? I just had a baby – my third baby girl – on August 24 th. I realized how “Edith” her personality is, and also that I have three little girls.
One day, while she was wearing the hat in 90 degrees weather playing by herself (not with the kids in playgroup), I had a “light-bulb!” as Gru would say. The hat was supposed to be for a one year old baby, but Violet didn’t care. But then, my 3 year old Violet starting wearing a pink-striped beanie that her aunt had made every single day. This year, we were initially planning on doing a Veggie Tales theme for Halloween. Last year, we dressed up as Monsters, Inc., and my kids dressed up in their costumes all the time long after Halloween was over and talked about how fun it was forever. I had never been much of a Halloween person until my oldest was 3 and started to really have a blast on Halloween. Here’s the story behind our Family’s Despicable Me costumes.
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