Boy King Tut Costume Ideas

All right, you have decided you want to wear a King Tut inspired costume for Halloween. How exactly would you go about doing that from a historical point of view? Typically the Egyptian climate is pretty dry and is also usually fairly hot so the clothing people wore needed to be light in weight and color too.

Almost all clothing was made from a type of linen during his time. Including, for the Egyptians of King Tut’s time, very little sewing – the fabric was usually just draped around the body. And believe it or not, it seems that the higher you were up the status ladder at that time, the more clothing you wore. So the poor people of the time probably wore very little.

So if I had a son that wanted to wear a boy King Tut costume for Halloween here’s what I would do. First of all, I would look for an old white sheet to use as the main body for the costume. Now you can go about this in several ways – you could drape it around the body in kind of a toga style and tie it with a sash, or if you really wanted to get a carried away and do a bit of sewing, then you could also cut the sheet and create costume pieces such as the kilt, no guys – these are not men’s skirts, a cape, or maybe even a full body tunic.

Now if I wanted to dress this up a bit there were several things I could do and here are a few of them. First of all I have a little bit of fabric around the house that is kind of a gold metallic color that I could use to tie into a sash around his waist a and if there’s enough of it to use I could even make a tape as well.

And I have some old costume jewelry that I can put on them too such as old gold bracelets and maybe I could use as armbands. If I wanted to add some more to the costume I could also create a gold caller around the shoulders out of the gold fabric that I have on hand, and maybe even added some gold beads to the sash is tied to his waist to add a more royal look.

For footwear he could easily wear his own summer sandals to complete the look. And if worse came to worse, and we couldn’t find the sandals he could always go barefoot too depending on where we were going while he was dressed in his Halloween costume.

But what about the head piece you might ask? You can’t really be King Tut without that one-of-a-kind head wear. Well, I do have a striped towel that I will be turning into King Tuts headpiece for the night. Since I wanted it to look very loose I will allow most of the towel to merely hang from the sides and drape down as it normally while tying back a portion in the front to keep the towel out of my son’s face. And to finish it off I have found the perfect gold headband that I will add to the towel to even make it look more regal than it already does.

Lastly, what King would be a King without his royal staff? So we will be adding a tall walking stick to my sons costume as a final accessory. And if he wanted to he could even wrap it in tinfoil or spray paint it with gold paint to make it look like it was made from metal.

So that’s it, my son now has his very own boy King Tut costume, easily made from several materials we already had on hand. And since the costume is fairly loose it should be easier for him to get around and about why we are out trick-or-treating. So not only will he be able to have fun and get lots of Halloween candy but he will get to dress up as one of his favorite Kings of all time, all dressed up in his very own King Tut costume.