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Costume ideas for a walker

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For people with a medical condition requiring them to use a walker, finding a good Halloween Costume can be a challenge. We’ve put together a few ideas below to help you or someone you love out. The costumes range from quite simple to very elaborate depending upon your inclination and time. We also have pages for more handicapped costume ideas, ideas for costumes for people using walkersand costume ideas for people using wheelchairs. The Halloween.biz Forums also have sections to discuss these type of costume ideas.

  • * Go as a grocery shopper. You could use the walker as part of a shopping cart and be shopping.
  • * Or cover the walker with brown butcher paper and BE the groceries in a bag!! 
  • * Putting on a Texas Ranger (or other cowboy type costume) costume and going as “Walker, Texas Ranger”.
  • * Use pieces of cardboard to build a haunted castle or haunted house and you can dress as frankentstein or a ghost or witch etc…looking out the window.
  • * A robot which includes the walker which would take account of limited mobility.
  • * Build it up into a haunted tree and you could be an owl.
  • * You could also put some mountainous pictures on the walker and when people ask what you are, you could say “The Walker Mountains in Antarctica of course!” Or some pictures of a lake and go as “Walker Lake” – there are a number of Walker Lakes out there.
  • * Get a large stiff piece of cardboard to attach to the front, shaped and painted or colored to look like a coffin with a small opening for you to look out of. Old fashioned coffins used to have a little window, sometimes shaped like a bat with screening in it!
  • * How about french fries and a drink? The fries are the walker and the drink is you.
  • * You could be a Christmas present. The box is opened and you are coming out as a doll or jack-in-the-box.
  • * Put a little model of a city on top of the walker, then dress up as Godzilla or some other monster coming towards the city about to CRUSH it.

If you have more ideas or want to talk more about it, come and see the Halloween.biz Forums costume section.

Some other great inspiration is shown below:
Photos of costumes from the Bridge School: from a fireman in a fire truck (the wheel chair) to an ice cream stand to a flower in a garden to Alladin on his magic carpet to a biker and babe! These are some wonderful costume ideas.The MDA also has some pictures of more costume ideas.And finally, there are more great ideas are on this page.

Costume ideas for wheelchairs

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For people with a condition requiring them to use a wheelchair, finding a good Halloween Costume can be a challenge. We’ve put together a few ideas below to help you or someone you love out. The costumes range from quite simple to very elaborate depending upon your inclination and time. We also have pages for more handicapped costume ideas, ideas for costumes for people using walkersand costume ideas for people using wheelchairs. The Halloween.biz Forums also have sections to discuss these type of costume ideas.

  • * How about going was the painting “Whistler’s Mother”? You would wear a black dress and the white scarf.  See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler’s_Mother
  • * Wrap a foot in an ace bandage. Get some mittens or ski hat. Instant injured skier costume!
  • * Drummer Costume. Attach containers (e.g ice-cream containers, empty paint-cans) to a wheelchair with rope, duct-tape or similar material. Use a hoola-hop with card-board for the bass drum (over the front of the chair). Use paint-brushes or large pencils for drum-sticks. Dress in appropriate attair for the music to be played (e.g. rock, 50s etc)
  • * Fred Flintstone and car costume. Obviously dress as Fred with a pre-purchased costume. Create the sides and top of the car from cardboard or light wood. Ditto for the dash. Cover the side-wheels in grey plastic. Voila, Fred Flintstone driving his car.
  • * King or Queen and throne costume. Wrap back and rests with gold or silver paper. Attach garland, plastic jewels and the like to the cart. Dress up regally in velvet or velour. Buy a crown and scepter and even the costume at a costume store.
  • * Pumpkin Costume. Get a big orange leaf bag, cut a hole in the large end and put it over a wheelchair. Instant pumpkin!
  • * Robot or evil machine type of a costume. 
  • * Dress up as an astronaut, and make the wheel chair up to look like the moon rover.

If you have more ideas or want to talk more about it, come and see the Halloween.biz Forums costume section.

Some other great inspiration is shown below:
Photos of costumes from the Bridge School: from a fireman in a fire truck (the wheel chair) to an ice cream stand to a flower in a garden to Alladin on his magic carpet to a biker and babe! These are some wonderful costume ideas.The MDA also has some pictures of more costume ideas.And finally, there are more great ideas are on this page.