More Great Halloween Costumes for Kids in Wheelchairs
Alien in a Space Ship
Using green body paint and a green sweat suit dress your child like an alien. Cover his entire face in green paint and add some silver sparkle with cosmetic glitter. Use a headband with tall, googly eyes, oversized costume ears, or any other exaggerated alien features. Let your child design their own alien costume in any color they want for the most creative and fun Halloween costume. Make a spaceship around the wheelchair using cardboard to form a round saucer. Make a control board with painted tennis balls on sticks so your little alien can drive his saucer around town for trick or treating.
Race Car Driver
Make a car shape around the wheel chair with cardboard and paint it to mimic your child’s favorite race car driver. Let them dress the part complete with driving gloves and a helmet. If you are pushing your child, play the part as well and make tire screeching noises as you stop in front of each house on Halloween.
Caught in the Shower
Purchase a humorous looking shower curtain, with big cartoon fish or other designs. Make a round brace from wood or metal and place it on a pole attached to the wheelchair back. Using shower curtain rings, attach the shower curtain to the round brace so the curtain hangs around the wheelchair. Dress your child in a skin-tone leotard with a towel and shower cap. Attach funny, colorful loofahs, miniature shampoo bottles and decorative soaps around the shower curtain. Make soap bubbles from clear plastic wrap and glue them all over the shower curtain. Pin the curtain closed in the front near your child’s legs so just their torso and face peeks out.
King or Queen on Throne
Use cardboard to make a throne backing for the wheelchair. Use gold and red paints to decorate the throne, including cardboard front and sides around the wheelchair. Dress your child as a king or queen complete with crown and scepter. (If a parent or attendant goes with the trick-or-treat, they can dress as the court jester or a page to serve the King or Queen.) For a twist go as King Neptune by decorating the throne with seashells and plastic fish and holding a trident.
Army Tank
Make an army tank around the wheel chair with cardboard and paint it green. It should have a large base around the chair and a smaller square around your child and the wheel back. Stick a piece of pipe in the front of the smaller top piece for a tank machine gun. Let your child wear a uniform top and an army helmet and wear black grease paint under their eyes.
