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    Home » Holidays » Halloween

    How to Make a Kids Mummy Costume

    Updated: Jul 29, 2021 by Melissa Mortenson · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · 28 Comments

    Kids Mummy Costume Tutorial on polkadotchair.com - very little sewing involved!

    Are you looking for some cute Halloween Costumes for kids that you can make yourself? Then you may love this tutorial teaches you how to make a kids mummy costume. It’s a unique Halloween costume for either boys or girls!  It’s so easy to make, you can even adapt it to a no-sew costume if you like.   If you like this project then you may also like this Hooded Cape Sewing Tutorial. 

    Learn how to make a Kids Mummy Costume for Halloween - A free tutorial on polkadotchair.com - very little sewing involved!
    Table of Contents
    • How to Make a Mummy Costume
    • Supplies for DIY Kids Mummy Costume
    • Instructions
    • More DIY Halloween Costume Tutorials

    Ever since I had twins I’ve been trying to get them to “match” for Halloween!  I love making family matching Halloween Costumes. We’ve done Pebbles & BamBam, Winnie the Pooh & Piglet, the Incredible’s, Prince & Princess, and 50’s costumes.  

    The older they get the harder it is for me to “convince” them to match. You can see some of their other costumes here.

    How to Make a Mummy Costume

    3 Simple and Helpful Tricks and Tips for Sewing Halloween costumes !

    Last year my son wanted to be a Mummy and after some “coaxing” my daughter and I agreed that there WAS such a thing as a Mummy Princess (note the tiara on her head).

    Learn how to make a Kids Mummy Costume for Halloween - A free tutorial on polkadotchair.com - very little sewing involved!

    Thus the DIY Halloween Mummy Costumes, a Prince & a Princess costumes were born.

    I’ve adapted these to be boy mummy costumes and girl mummy costumes but obviously, you can make them however you like based on your kid’s wishes!

    Supplies for DIY Kids Mummy Costume

    • White Long Sleeved T-Shirts
    • Gray sweatpants – turn them inside out and use the lining – it’s white (if you can find white sweatpants get those, but I could not find white)
    • Tea for dyeing
    • White Cotton Fabric about 1 yd per costume (not including skirt- you need ½ yd for that) I used a lightweight stretch cotton fabric from Joann’s that had a slight crinkle texture.  You could also try a simple white rib knit fabric.  Don’t bother with cheesecloth- it’s too thin and hard to work with. You could use Muslin- just don’t use any polyester fabrics (they won’t hold the dye).
    • Cotton Lace
    • Off White Tulle
    • Elastic
    • Needle & Thread
    • Sewing Machine (if you are making the skirt. For the costume with pants, you do not need a sewing machine, you can do it all by hand, and even use hot glue if you do not want to sew at all).

    Instructions

    3 Simple and Helpful Tricks and Tips for Sewing Halloween costumes !

    DIY Mummy Costume for Kids

    Melissa Mortenson
    Create a cute mummy costume for boys or girls using our simple costume tutorial. This tutorial uses store-bought clothing items to help you save time during the construction process.
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    Prep Time 1 hr
    Active Time 2 hrs
    Drying Time 8 hrs
    Total Time 11 hrs

    Equipment

    • Sewing Machine
    • Basic Sewing Tools
    • Small Sharp Scissors

    supplies

    • 2-3 Yards Cotton Lace For girl's costume, choose a variety of laces for more interest.
    • 2-3 Yards Cotton Gauze Fabric Make sure it's cotton and can be dyed. I purchased a cotton knit fabric that looked like it was wrinkled up at my local big box sewing store. You want something with texture that won't fray.
    • 1 Yard Tulle For Skirt
    • 1 Knit T-Shirt 1 for each costume
    • 1 Pair Sweatpants White, or turn a gray pair inside out
    • 1 Yard 1" wide Elastic For Skirt
    • 1 Spool Heavy Duty Thread
    • 1 Lrg Package Black Tea for dyeing. This is an entire package of tea, not one tea bag.

    Instructions
     

    Dye the Fabric

    • The first thing you need to do is Tea Dye everything that is white. Don’t bother dyeing tulle, the dye will not stick to it. Dye all of your t-shirts, sweatpants, fabric, lace.
    • To do this dump a whole box of tea bags into a plastic tub with hot water. Dunk all of your pieces and leave to sit for several hours. Then rinse with cold water and line dry.

    How to Make the Mummy Shirts

    • After your fabric has dried, start cutting up your yardage into strips. Vary your strips from 2″ – 4″. Just RANDOM widths, don’t think about it too much just chop it up.
    • Lay the strips out on your store-bought shirt.
    • Start laying out your strips of fabric on top of your t-shirt. Again in just random crazy patterns. Lay one strip at a time and pin it in place.
    • Make sure to wrap some of the strips around from the front of the shirt to the back. The crazier and sloppier it looks the better. It’s a Mummy after all!
    • Stitch down the pieces.
    • Just use the cream thread and a tack stitch- add a tack stitch everywhere you had a pin.
    • For extra reinforcement- Stitch with your machine ON TOP of the strips/t-shirt. Making sure you are catching all the layers (this will keep the strips from falling down when the kids walk around).
    • If you don’t have a sewing machine, run a line of close together hand stitches up along the side seams of the shirts.
    • Optional: For the girls’ mummy t-shirt- gather up some lace or tulle and hand stitch it into the t-shirt in a few spots.

    How to Make Mummy Pants

    • Using the gray sweatpants turned inside out (so that the white is showing if you found white sweatpants you don’t need to do that) you are going to do almost the same thing as you did to the shirt, with a couple of exceptions.
    • First- if there is elastic in the pants cuff, cut it out.
    • Next- cut the inseam of the pants, so they will open up.
    • Now start laying down the strips of fabric- at the legs start at the cut seam (the inseam) and wrap it around front to back and end in the inseam- pin it place.
    • For the top of the pants- just lay the strips over the pants- Then you are going to stitch right on top of the pants at the top- in the front and in the back.
    • After all of the strips are laid out on the pants- sew the inseam closed. You’ll have the right sides (in this case the right side is the side with the strips on it) together. This will catch the ends of the strips into the seam.

    To Make a Mummy Skirt

    • For the skirt, you’ll need a basic skirt tutorial to start. You can use this one of mine (to find the skirt tutorial type (simple summer skirt) into the search box on this blog.
    • You will have 3 layers of fabric on your skirt.
    • The top (layer 1) will be Tulle.
    • Layer 2 will be strips of fabric (that you cut in step 1).
    • Layer 3 will be the skirt (made from the same fabric that you cut the strips from).
    • Make a Fabric “Sandwich” for your Skirt.
    • Just make your skirt “sandwich” Stitch all the layers together, fold over the top about 1″ and make a casing then insert elastic cut to the right size.
    • I hand stitched some “pickups” into the tulle skirt, just so you could see the underneath.

    Notes

    Construction Tips & Notes: For the headpieces, I just used extra strips of fabric and tied them in my daughter’s hair. I used some spray ink on the entire costume when it was done to “age” it a bit more.
    You can just put some RIT dye in a squirt bottle and add detail as you’d like. My daughter wore cream leg warmers and tights under her costume. I’d recommend helping your kids get dressed in them as you don’t want to tangle the strips as they take it on and off.
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    A few of you asked about the location where we took our photos:

    In my Sister-in-Law’s backyard is a beautiful park that the residents in the area like to frequent.  There are stone walls that were built during the civil war, old iron gates & cobblestone walkways. It’s beautiful.  

    There are also a few civil war memorials back there too.  The last 2 years we have gone trick or treating in her neighborhood- it’s fun and old and gives you that very old-fashioned spooky but fun feel that you want on Halloween day.   Last year, my niece snapped these photos of my kids, trick or treating. She’s an excellent photographer and I could not be happier with how the photos turned out.

    More DIY Halloween Costume Tutorials

    DIY Glinda Costume

    No-Sew Alice in Wonderland Costume DIY

    How to make a Harry Potter Quidditch Costume

    DIY Ariel Mermaid Halloween Costume Tutorial

    Easy Skeleton Costume for Teens

    Simple DIY Toy Story Costumes

    A few More Creative Kids Costume Ideas from some of my Favorite Bloggers:

    DIY Dice Costume – Sugar Bee Crafts

    DIY Tutu and Cupcake Costume – Sew What Alicia

    Ninja Turtle Costume – The Scrap Shoppe

    No Sew Ninja Costume – Paging Supermom

    Little Mermaid and Flounder – Unoriginal Mom

    Sharkboy and Lavagirl – Houseful of Handmade

    Golden Snitch – Suburban Wife

    DIY Bee Costume – Cutesy Crafts

    Maui Costume – See Lindsay

    Unicorn – Craft Box Girls

    Star Trek – Tried and True

    Toddler Boy Costumes – Sengerson

    DIY Elmo Costume – Girl Loves Glam

    Princess Poppy Costume – Fleece Fun

    Skeleton Costume – Gingersnap Crafts

    Star Wars Costumes – Design Dazzle

    Monsters – Simple Practical Beautiful

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    About Author

    Melissa Mortenson

    Melissa Mortenson is a blogger, designer, and content creator. She is the Polka Dot Chair blog founder and has been sharing fresh and creative ideas with readers since 2008. She is the author of “Project Teen, Handmade Gifts your Teen will Actually Love.” Her work and designs have been featured on HuffPost, TODAY, Pioneer Woman, HGTV, BuzzFeed, Better Homes & Gardens, and many other established publications. Her first fabric line, “Derby Style,” debuted in January 2015 through Riley Blake Designs.  Additional fabric collections have followed it in subsequent years. A mom of 3, she considers herself lucky to be living in Kentucky.

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    Comments

    1. Val Curtis says

      October 07, 2011 at 8:16 am

      This is so incredibly cool! I just bookmarked it. Perhaps next year we can go as the mummy family.

      Reply
    2. LeighAnn says

      October 07, 2011 at 1:01 pm

      This is really original and cool!

      Reply
    3. Jen says

      October 07, 2011 at 7:00 pm

      Thank you! My girls (7 & 3) want this for their costume. I’ve never sewn clothes, so I hope it turns out!! The skirt may be challenging, but I think I’ll manage! This is SO CUTE! I’m just happy I was able to convince them to be this for Halloween!!

      Reply
    4. GailM. says

      October 11, 2011 at 10:57 am

      I really like your costumes. I was makin a corpse bride costume on the weekend too. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for posting the sweet personalized name quilt on the Moda Bake Shop. I used your pattern to make a personalized quilt for a baby that is due at the end of this month. It’s cute. Come over to have a look.

      Reply
    5. Wag Doll says

      October 11, 2011 at 11:58 am

      Just too cool, love these mummy costumes, cute and scary at the same time LOL! x

      Reply
    6. lacysummer says

      October 12, 2011 at 5:08 pm

      Thank you so much! I bought fabric today, think about how to make the costume and I was making it much harder than it needed to be. You saved me!

      Reply
    7. Brooklyn says

      October 19, 2011 at 4:32 pm

      Thank you for the idea! My 6 yr old wants to be a mummy for halloween this year so we made this today. We love the skirt!

      Reply
    8. Amy Keller says

      October 04, 2012 at 10:53 am

      I have a question! How do I dye the fabric with tea?

      Reply
    9. Britney {Jesse's Girl} says

      October 07, 2012 at 8:16 pm

      I’m dying! These are SUPER cute! Wow!

      Reply
    10. Amanda says

      October 26, 2013 at 10:23 am

      I LOVE these! I’ve featured them today on Fun Family Crafts 🙂 http://funfamilycrafts.com/mummy-costume-for-boys-and-girls/

      Reply
    11. Alba Nelly Guaca says

      November 01, 2013 at 10:45 am

      Super bueno ya que es muy natural liviano y económico me gustaría saber a cerca de mas disfraces fasiles de hacer en casa.
      Gracias.

      Reply
    12. Sarah Helene says

      October 20, 2014 at 7:53 pm

      WOW . . . FAB MUMMY KIDS’ COSTUMES for HALLOWEEN FESTIVITIES! Instead of the ordinary “take an old white flat bed sheet and tear into strips” etc, you’ve “UPPED” it to using numerous pieces of tea-dyed cotton fabrics, cotton lace and tulle for your creations. BRAVO to MOM – lots of love sewn into these mummy outfits. THANKS FOR SHARING. Sarah in Minneapolis

      Reply
      • Melissa Mortenson says

        October 22, 2014 at 6:01 pm

        So glad you like them!!

        Reply

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