Free Mummy Coloring Pages: 38 printable PDF designs featuring classic bandaged Halloween mummies, ancient Egyptian scenes, and playful character mashups. Each page can be downloaded as a PDF to print or colored online in the browser.
Mummification is far older than Halloween decorating trends suggest. The Chinchorro people of the Atacama Desert, in what is now northern Chile and southern Peru, began deliberately preserving their dead around 5,000 BCE, roughly two thousand years before the earliest confirmed Egyptian mummies. Ancient Egyptian embalmers later developed the version most people picture today: a roughly 70-day process that removed and stored internal organs in canopic jars, dried the body with a mineral salt called natron, and wrapped it in resin-soaked linen strips. The bandaged, shuffling monster movie mummy is a newer invention. Universal Pictures introduced that version to audiences in 1932 with “The Mummy,” starring Boris Karloff as the revived priest Imhotep, and the bandaged look stuck in popular culture ever since.
This collection blends both traditions across 38 pages: bandage-wrapped Halloween monsters, pyramid and temple scenes drawn from Egyptian history, and lighthearted mummy characters built for trick-or-treating rather than scares. The bandages are the coloring throughline. Nearly every page asks for the same tan and cream wrapping treatment, while the background details shift the mood from playful to eerie.
What Is Inside This Collection
The 38 pages break into four groups based on setting and tone, moving from traditional Halloween monsters to ancient Egypt and back.
Classic Halloween Mummies
Thirteen pages show the traditional bandaged mummy standing near tombstones, beside jack-o-lanterns, or alongside other classic Halloween monster imagery. Color suggestion: keep the bandages in a warm cream or tan and save the darkest tones for the night sky background, so the wrapped figure stays the visual focus of the page.
Cute and Playful Mummies
Fifteen pages take the friendlier route, with mummies trick-or-treating, dancing, sweeping up candy, or riding a broom in a witch hat. These designs favor rounder proportions and bigger eyes over the spooky look of the classic pages. Color suggestion: a lighter, almost peach-toned tan for the bandages reads as more cheerful than the deeper cream used on the scarier designs.
Ancient Egyptian Scenes
Four pages move the setting to Egypt itself, with pyramids, hieroglyphics, a torch-lit temple, and a small statue of the cat goddess Bastet. Color suggestion: Sandy tan and warm gold work well for the architecture, with a cooler blue-gray reserved for shadowed stone to keep the desert heat readable on the page.
Character Mashups and Haunted Scenes
Six pages pair a mummy with a haunted house backdrop or another familiar cartoon character wrapped in bandages. These crossover pages use the same bandage coloring approach as the rest of the set, and the guest character’s own established colors should guide the rest of the page.
What Mummy Coloring Pages Do
Fine motor development. The American Academy of Pediatrics identifies fine motor skill development as a core benefit of structured coloring for children ages 2 through 7. The tight spiral bandage lines that wrap every mummy page in this set give kids repeated practice staying inside a curved, narrow space, a different motor challenge than filling in large open shapes.
A gentle way into history. The Egyptian-themed pages introduce pyramids, hieroglyphics, and canopic jar imagery without requiring any prior knowledge of ancient Egypt. Coloring the scene first, then asking what a detail like a hieroglyph or a temple torch actually is, gives kids a visual anchor before they meet the topic again in a classroom.
Anxiety reduction through focus. A 2005 study in the Art Therapy Journal documented measurable reductions in anxiety following structured coloring sessions. The repetitive, low-stakes bandage pattern found on nearly every page in this set offers that same structured focus without the jump-scare intensity of a haunted house or costume.
Choosing spooky or sweet. Because the collection includes both eerie tombstone scenes and cheerful trick-or-treating mummies, kids get to decide how scary they want their Halloween coloring session to be. That built-in choice, rather than one fixed tone, is what makes a themed set like this one useful across a wide age range.
How to Color Mummy Pages Well
- Bandages: Base the wrap in Crayola Tan or Desert Sand, then add thin Crayola Sepia lines along the bandage overlaps to suggest depth without covering the linen texture entirely.
- Egyptian gold accents: Use Crayola Goldenrod for jewelry, amulets, and temple trim, with a light Crayola Yellow Orange highlight on raised edges to catch the light.
- Pyramids and stone: Color the sandstone in Crayola Raw Sienna or Tan, with Crayola Timberwolf gray worked into the recessed carving lines for contrast.
- Night sky backgrounds: Blend Crayola Midnight Blue into Crayola Violet (Purple) for the darker tombstone and haunted-house pages, then dot in small points of Crayola White for stars.
- Jack-o-lanterns: Use Crayola Orange for the base, with Crayola Black kept sparingly on the carved features so the face still reads clearly against the bandage colors nearby.
- Eyes and expressions: A small touch of Crayola Sky Blue on the eyes keeps a friendly mummy looking approachable, while Crayola Yellow Green in the same spot pushes a page toward the spookier end of the set.
5 Creative Craft Ideas With Mummy Coloring Pages
1. Mummy Standee
Color a favorite page, mount it on cardstock, and cut around the silhouette, folding a small tab at the base so it stands upright on a shelf or desk. A row of standees in different poses makes an instant tabletop Halloween display.
2. Sarcophagus Shoebox Diorama
Color one of the Egyptian temple or pyramid pages and glue it inside a shoebox turned on its side as a backdrop, then stand a small colored cutout mummy figure in front of it. The box frame gives the flat coloring page a sense of depth.
3. Bandage Strip Garland
Color several of the classic mummy pages, cut each one into a long tapered strip, and string them together along a ribbon for a doorway or wall garland. The repeated bandage shapes read clearly even from across a room.
4. Trick-or-Treat Greeting Card
Color one of the candy or trick-or-treat scenes, fold a piece of cardstock in half, and glue the colored page to the front for a handmade Halloween card. Write a short message inside for a classmate, neighbor, or grandparent.
5. Ancient Versus Modern Comparison
Color one Egyptian temple page and one classic bandaged Halloween mummy page, then display them side by side with labels. The pairing turns the coloring session into a quick visual lesson on how a 3,000-year-old burial practice became a modern monster costume.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are mummy coloring pages?
Free printable designs of the bandage-wrapped Halloween monster, in 38 spooky, playful, and Egyptian-themed styles. Available as a PDF or online coloring, no account needed.
Where does the bandaged Halloween mummy costume come from?
The look comes from Universal Pictures’ 1932 film “The Mummy,” where Boris Karloff played the revived priest Imhotep. Makeup artist Jack Pierce created the bandaged design that became the standard mummy costume.
What are the oldest mummies in the world?
The Chinchorro people of Chile and Peru mummified their dead around 5,000 BCE, about two thousand years before the earliest known Egyptian mummies.
How long did ancient Egyptian mummification take?
About 70 days. Embalmers removed internal organs into canopic jars, dried the body with natron salt, and then wrapped it in linen before burial.
What colors work best for mummy bandages?
A warm tan, beige, or cream base looks most like aged linen. Thin sepia shading lines along the wrap overlaps add a layered, realistic texture.
Why do some pages include pyramids and hieroglyphics?
Four pages place the mummy in its historical setting, with pyramids and hieroglyphic carvings that connect the collection to real ancient Egyptian history.
Are mummy coloring pages suitable for young children?
Most pages suit children aged three and up, since they show friendly, rounded mummy characters. A smaller group of spookier pages fits better for ages five and up.
Can these pages be used outside of Halloween?
The Egyptian pyramid and temple pages work year-round for history lessons. The bandaged monster and jack-o-lantern pages are more specifically tied to October.
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