How to Make the Easiest Toga Costume for Kids

Let's say that, hypothetically speaking, your child comes home from Vacation Bible School with a note that says that he needs an outfit for the upcoming Toga Day, but you can't deal with it because you are driving directly from VBS to Cub Scout Twilight Camp, not that you own any plain sheets anyway. Well, fortunately for you, I have a solution for your oddly-specific problem! 

We happened to have all the items I used for Trevor's outfit on hand. In case you don't, I've included affiliate links below so you can purchase what you're missing. 

2-Minute Toga Costume for Kids

Materials: 

• white adult-sized crew-neck t-shirt
• rope
• kids' t-shirt (in child's skin tone)
• leather sandals 

Steps: 

Dress your child in shorts, a t-shirt that matches their skin tone (Trevor's is "Sand"), and leather sandals. Cut a length of cord that is about 6" longer than your child's waist and knot each end. 

Trevor wears a child small, so Steve's adult medium t-shirt was a perfect fit. A taller child would need a large or extra-large adult t-shirt.

To put on the toga: 

1. Have your child put their right arm up through the neck hole.  
2. Now their head goes through the neck hole.
3. Their left arm goes through the left sleeve.
4. Tie the cord around their waist.

This would make a pretty good Halloween costume for those of us who sometimes have warm weather on October 31. Or (again hypothetically) for anyone who has nearly-constant Halloween parties during the week before Halloween whose mother does not want him to ruin his costume before Halloween night. Just saying.