Minion Valentine’s Day Box Craft

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These Minion Valentine’s Day box was seriously so much fun to make. The girls and I had a blast.

I love being home with my kids and having the opportunity to make things like this Minion Valentine’s Day Box craft with kids.  Vayda came home on Monday, telling me that I needed to go to the store right away.  Like, stop cooking dinner and go to the store to get her a Valentine’s Day box for school.  I came to find out that she had forgotten to tell me that she needed to make a Valentine’s Day box for school the week before, and she was freaking out because she didn’t think we could have one done by Thursday.  I told her to go look for stuff to make one, and she started crying.  She told me all we had was a tissue box, but Trip, our dog, chewed it up.  Darn the luck, right?  I told her to tell me what she wanted, and I would have everything ready for her when she got home from school on Tuesday, but I almost kicked myself when she told me she wanted something shiny, pinkish-purple that nobody else would have.  That’s my kids; wait until the last minute and have these crazy ideas. 

Minion Valentine’s Day Box Craft

We started looking around, and lucky for us, we found an old pickle container.  My husband picks on me and tells me that I save some of the strangest things.  They always get used to something, and the kids always have something they need done last-minute, like this Valentine’s Day box craft.

The second I saw the pickle jar, I knew we would end up doing some type of Minion Valentine’s Day box craft.  Vayda loves the Minions. I recently made her entire class Minion cupcakes (I will share them soon), so it would actually be fun and fit the theme for her to make a Minion Valentine’s Day box.  Plus, crafts with kids are always so much fun, especially for Vayda because she has such an active imagination.  In her mind, anything is possible, and we always come up with the funniest craft projects.  Anyway, after she and I finished talking about it, we decided on a Valentine’s Day box that looks like a nice version of the purple Minions, lol.  If you have seen the show, you know which ones I am talking about, and if you haven’t, OMG, watch it.  Despicable Me 1 and 2 are amazing!

Minion Valentine’s Day Box Craft

The best part about the Minion Valentine’s Day Box craft is that I only spent $4 on it and have plenty of material left over for more crafts with kids.  If you are hunting for a last-minute Valentine’s Day box idea, I hope this might help you.  Most of the things we had around the house. 

Here is everything you are going to need to have some fun making your minion Valentine’s Day box craft. 

• Pickle Jar with Lid or Something Similar
• Medium Sized Mason Jar Lid
• Clear Duck Tape
• White Paper or Paint (I ran out of white paint so we use paper)
• Black Paint (I ran out of black paint so I used brown paint, but I think it would look better with black)
• Scissors
• Paint Brush
• Wrapping Paper (We used a shiny pinkish purple color that Vayda loved)
• Pink Decorating Tinsel
• Hot Glue Gun 

Minion Valentine’s Day Box Craft Directions

Cover your pickle jar or whatever you decide to use with your wrapping paper.  We used clear duck tape to hold the wrapping paper in place, with the exception of the top. We also used the lid.  Be sure to leave enough of the wrapping paper on top to place the lid on, and tuck the wrapping paper under it. Using the jar, it’s a little difficult to fit the paper perfectly.  We found that placing the lid over the top held the wrapping paper in place much better than glue, and it looked nicer. 

Before placing the lid on your container to hold the wrapping paper in place, cut the center out.  Kids will use the top of your Minion Valentine’s Day box to place their Valentin’s cards and other goodies in.

Paint your Mason jar lid white, or you can cover it with paper like we did.  Paint a circle in the center of the white part of the Mason Jar lid, as shown above.  We used brown paint; if you have black, I think black would be better.

Place the center of the Mason jar lid into the outer part of the lid; if you’re using paper, you will notice it fits tighter, which we found beneficial.  Using the glue gun, glue the center of the Mason jar into place.  We placed ours as far back as possible, rather than pushing it forward like it would be on a jar, so it looks more like the Minions goggles, glasses, or whatever they are. 

Glue your Mason Jar lid to your wrapped pickle jar.  It’s starting to look pretty neat, isn’t it?

Now for the fun part and the most time-consuming part of the whole Valentine’s Day box craft: the hair!  We didn’t want to make his hair stand up, so we used some shiny pink decorative tensile I found at the dollar store.  Grab your scissors and curl some of the strands of tensile.  This is a great job for your kid, if they are old enough to handle scissors.  I would do about 10 pieces at a time, and by the time we were almost done, Vayda was curling more than one piece at a time as well.  You do this the same way you curl a ribbon.  Hold one end of the tensile with one hand, and run your scissors down the tensile.  Be sure to do this away from the body to avoid anything bad from happening. 

Now, using your hot glue gun, start to glue the hair on the lid.  We overlapped the hair a little so you couldn’t see down into the Minion Valentine’s Day Box, but either way, it will look cute. 

For the mouth, my husband used a black marker and colored it, as you see above.  Originally, I wanted to make a cute Valentine’s Day box where the mouth would go and make big teeth, but Vayda didn’t want big teeth; she wanted a shiny pinkish purple Minion Valentine’s Day box, and this is what we came up with!

Vayda has named her Minion Valentine’s Day Box Vanessa.  Today Vayda took Vanessa to school, lol.  Finger crossed they have a great day getting ready for their Valentine’s Day party tomorrow.  Vayda said she was not going to allow Vanessa to eat anything.  She wants to be sure she is nice and hungry for Valentine’s Day, so she gets lots of stuff, lol.  I get to love kids.

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!  What kind of Valentine’s Day box did you’re child make?