In my last post I shared how I was planning to have a minion classroom theme and I wanted to update you on the minions I was able to make. First I decided to make MINION mean something- so each letter has a meaning. M-Meaningful, I-Independent, N-Neighborly, I-Interesting, O-Opinionated N-eat S-Self-Confident. This is going to help my kids see that minions are more than just cute little guys who have a funny language.
For my classroom I really wanted them to look hand made (not just a coloring page) But I am not crafty at all. So as always I turned to my 2 favorite places: google search and pinterest! I found after searing for a while, this website that had a make your own minion printable and I thought this was perfect as a template!
This really helped me figure out how to make my own minion.
In order for me to make the minion I first cut out his whole body and traced that with yellow paper.
Then I cut out just the pants and traced them with the blue paper.
After that I cut out the glasses and traced the whole thing onto black paper. I cut out an eye and traced those onto the white paper! (I know this sounds like a lot but they look so much cuter than if I just colored these!) I did the same for the arms using yellow paper and the legs using the blue paper. I colored the hands and feet black with a sharpie.
I glued all the pieces onto each other and added the pocket. I used a P instead of G (for Gru) and voila! You have my minions!
My husband had a great time taking pictures of them like they were actually hanging out with me while I was working! haha.
Then I decided to make a larger one to put in the center of my room. He is purely for decoration, but I would love to try and find a way to use him in the classroom! I also printed out (at this point I was getting to crunch time) enough minions for my word wall. You can see the big minion and the smaller minions below:
Last, but not least- I colored minions to match the colors of my word wall. We are going to use different colors for different parts of speech and math, so I wanted them to have a key to remember. I wanted it to be like in Despicable Me 2, when the villan is turning minions into purple "evil" minions.
I made a minon for my door as well. You can even see the little minions hanging out on my bulletin board in the hallway.
I made a minon for my door as well. You can even see the little minions hanging out on my bulletin board in the hallway.
Love,
