King Tut Costumes for Kids
As many of us know, children have their own ideas about what makes a great costume. Last Halloween after exhausting all the usual costume ideas, my son decided, what he would like to be “more than anything in the world” was young King Tut! He wanted King Tut Costumes for Kids. I have to admit I was stunned.
So I pulled out the storage bins of old costume ideas from years in the past and realized I had nothing. What’s a mom to do? That’s when I realized it didn’t have to be that difficult so I gathered some household items that weren’t being used anymore and went to work on a low cost version of the ancient garb of the kings.
The first thing I got out was an old white bed sheet. I suppose a spare piece of cloth would also work fine, it just needs to long enough to go from the child’s shoulders to the ground, both in the front and back. First for this particular King Tut Costumes for Kids I cut out a hole, big enough for my son’s head, and then trimmed the fabric so it hung over him, with his arms outstretched like a towel over a towel rack.
Each end of the fabric ended just past his shoulders on both sides, as his head poked through the hole. Under each of his arms there was a gap so I had him wear an old t-shirt and a pair of white pants so he was not exposed when he lifted his arms. I then took the garment off and laid the cloth down on the ground. It looked like a long piece of cloth about 8 foot by 2 feet, with a hole directly in the center.
I made a cut from the hole down on one of the longer 4 foot sides – this would later be the opening on the front of this King Tut Costume for Kids. I put this back onto my son and used an old robe belt to cinch up the middle. The final product looked a little like a sheepherder, so I knew we had more work to do.
Next we worked on his head piece. For this I took an old base ball cap, some hot glue and a long piece of blue and gold striped cloth. We look at some old diagrams of the pharaohs’ headdress and selected a style worn by King Tut. 
We then flipped the baseball cap around and hot glued the cloth to the underside so it wrapped over his head like a scarf but the hat was not visible. The bill of the hat faced the back. As a final finishing touch we attached the head of a plastic snake to the front, after we painted it gold of course!
Finally, it was all about the staff. We used an old broom handle and took some construction paper, twisted it and taped it in a upside down teardrop shape on the top. We sprayed the whole thing gold and added a touch of the stripped cloth to the area he would hold on to it, for extra comfort! And presto! We had an Egyptian King Tut costume! The perfect King Tut Costumes for Kids of any age!