tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40758900930409023252024-03-05T12:47:01.242-06:00Wheelchair CostumesCassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634885711864748059noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075890093040902325.post-56269251938489906552016-07-13T10:21:00.000-05:002016-07-13T10:21:33.249-05:00Wheelchair Costume Kits on EtsyMost of you that visit this blog are looking for wheelchair costume ideas but for those of you that want a wheelchair costume....but don't want to make one...visit my Etsy shop to purchase pre-made wheelchair costume kits. Here is a quick glance of the costumes I currently have available. These costumes are made to order.<br />
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<br /><br />I was able to find parts of a children’s bike to start off with. Ideally the handlebars would actually be attached the the wheel, but we had to work with what we had.<div>
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<br />I took a trip to a hardware store to check out what they had. I didn't have a big idea, so I just browsed for some inspiration. The plumbing section seems to have the most selection of parts that I was looking for. And of course some spray paint, glue, and duct tape, a touch light and bristol board.</div>
<br />Then I needed to put the bike together. There was grease all over, so I covered everything with some shiny duct tape. I had thought it was only silver duct tape, but it had writing all of it, so I had to spray paint it. I had bought a T-shaped pipe cover and used it to hold the steering wheel with the wheel and taped it all together. (It held, but was very loose)</div>
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I got some straight pipe covers to boost up the bike's appearance and then spray painted everything.</div>
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We added the light and now it was starting to come together.<div>
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Now I was stuck, I didn't have any ideas about how to actually attach it to Nick's wheelchair.<br /><br />We bought a broom handle and spray painted it silver, and then zip-tied the bike to the chair. It also lifted the wheels off the ground. The last problem we had was how to keep the bike off of Nick's lap.<br />What we needed was something for the bike to just rest in. In the end we had a bike rack that was able to be tied to the chair and sit around Nick for the bike to rest against. We covered the rack and the sides of Nick's chair with the pipe covers (which also protects it) and zip tied everything together.<div>
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So I made up some shields for Nick's wheels out of the bristol boards (posterboard).</div>
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Start off by finding a picture of a space shuttle. You will likely learn more than you ever wanted to know about the contours of that machine! Like any wheelchair costume, there will be some trial and error as you adapt the costume to work with your particular chair and child and it helped me to look at a few different ideas.</div>
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I started my making the sides of the shuttle. Using two pieces of foam board, I played around with different ways to fit it between the sides of my son’s wheelchair and the wheels. It was a little tight, but I finally settled on cutting a rectangular notch to secure the foam board over the brakes. I also could have cut a notch to fit it over the axles, but felt it was secure enough over the axles. I then trimmed the foam board down so that it would be low enough for my son would be able to reach his wheels.</div>
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I then cut a triangular wedge out of the top front end of each side to approximate the rounded contour of the front windows. I measured and cut out another piece of white foam board to make the front window. I secured it to each side with hot glue. I made the black front window using the duct tape and wrapped it around a little to the sides.</div>
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The front nose was a little tricky. I ended up cutting three triangles of black foam board. Two of the triangles matched up the edge of the side of the shuttle and I then came together in the front. The length of these triangles should be the distance that you want the nose cone to come out - I suggest measuring for this step instead of eyeballing ;) The third matched up the bottom of the front window and came down to meet the two triangles. Using duct tape, I secured the side triangles first and the placed the top triangles.</div>
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Then I made the wings and rudder. Initially, I made two fantastic to-scale wings that went almost the length of the shuttle. However they would have blocked the wheels and part of the fun of having a space shuttle the ability to zoom around it in, so I had to drastically reduce their size so that they would fit behind the wheels. (The little boy in my first inspiration picture looks like he was using a power chair, so long wings made perfect sense for his costume.) Once I settled on a size, I decorated with black marker and NASA, USA and flag printouts. For the rudder, I couldn't think of a simple way to make the one rudder, so I settled on cutting out two trapezoids to approximate the look. I colored in the details with the black marker and hot glued on.</div>
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The last step in the structure was to cut out a black piece for the back and secure it to the sides with duct tape. I spray painted three styrofoam craft cones to make the after burners. I cut holes in the back piece and foam and secured with glue and duct tape.</div>
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I got the astronaut costume and helmet off of Amazon. One of the unintended benefits of the helmet was that it gave my son, a preschooler, a nice place to hide when the attention got to be a little too much.</div>
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I used one box that fit perfectly over the wheelchair. I flipped the flaps up and glued the two shorter ends at an angle. This gave the me a little extra height with just one box. The other box I cut up and used it for different parts. I put two pieces on each side of the box to make the sides taller and then one on top the enclose he van. I cut a flap on top to make the opening, along with a circle for the top globe window. Once it was all glued together I painted the whole thing green.<br />
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I used the cardboard rolls to make the ladder, bar up the side of the windshield and for the wench. The lights, mirrors, wench hook, and tires were all cut from the extra cardboard. And painted accordingly. The tin foil is wrapped around the mirrors to make the mirror effect. I used a picture of a toy I found online to paint the details. Then I used the zip ties to attach it to the wheelchair.<br />
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I cut the body of the trolley out, then the oval shaped roof and a strip of cardboard for the yellow sign on top. Then I cut two pieces for the front and the back (squares with a rounded top). I can’t give details on how I got it to fit on the chair. I really had to play with it and ended up using the wheelchair’s push bar to anchor the thing and keep it from flopping around. See what works. Measure a bit. You can do it. </div>
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Thank you <a href="http://www.whatdoyoudodear.com/">Mary Evelyn</a> for sharing this adorable creation! Simeon makes the perfect Mr. Rogers.</div>
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Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634885711864748059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075890093040902325.post-30183161632799443642014-10-31T21:36:00.000-05:002014-11-01T07:46:12.794-05:00Jeep (aka Createrra).I'm calling this a Jeep just to make it more generic...but it's technically the Createrra from Caleb's most favorite show "Wild Kratts".<br />
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First I cut cardboard to make the 4 sides and hood of the jeep. It's basically a rectangle shape, super easy design. I spray painted all the pieces before I hot glued them together.</div>
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I cut smaller/angled pieces of cardboard to attach to the hood so it has a raised look in the middle. I used gift wrap paper tubes to make the front and back roll bars. I cut them to fit together and then hot glued them to make a solid piece. I painted the front bars to match the jeep and the back bars I painted black.</div>
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I used a manila folder that I cut to fit over the angled cardboard on the front to complete the hood. I printed off the Wild Kratts logo and added it to the back and the top of the hood. I used reflectors for the back brake lights. I bought LED push lights for the headlights. I added a square of black paper to the front for the grill. The front and back bumpers were black foam pieces that I happened to have. I painted them silver. I added a small square of cardboard (painted black) to the rear of the jeep.</div>
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Since this is technically the Createrra from Wild Kratts, I had to make it look just right. I used brown paint to look like mud. I used green and blue paint for the paw prints. We had to remove the front roll bars...they were in Caleb's way :)</div>
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I also made the costumes. I bought black v-neck tshirts and cut off the sleeves to make it look more like a vest. I used blue/green felt for the creature power suit design. I did the same thing for the gloves. I found the creature power discs online, printed them out and then laminated them. They stuck to the creature power suits with velcro. I made the small pouch for the discs out of felt. I made a creature pod using a piece of cardboard that I painted blue. I found the picture online and printed it out. Added a couple of buttons and a strap for the wrist. </div>
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<br />Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634885711864748059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075890093040902325.post-71576324371796985152014-10-31T13:12:00.000-05:002014-10-31T13:12:25.772-05:00Captain America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Red, white and blue crafters paint<br />
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Hot glue gun<br />
Poster board (5 sheets)<br />
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I used different sized pot lids to make the circles for Captain Americas Shield. Traced the outlines of the circles and painted them according to photos of the actual shield I found online. Painted each shield and then hot glued them to an extra larger circle to give them more support. They were hole punched in three locations and secured with zip ties to the wheels of the wheelchair.<br />
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The exhaust pipes were made with rolled up poster board, hot glued to maintain shape and then stapled to the second tube. I used two tubes on each safety bar and painted with metallic crafting paint. The tubes were made wide enough to fit over the anti-tipping guards and the guards were turned up to attach the exhaust. I them stuffed the tubes with the colored tissue paper to give it a flame appearance.<br />
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Behind the wheelchair I attached my sons real Captain America shield using ribbon to be able to take it on and off when he wanted to use the shield.<br />
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Lastly to add a little pizzazz, I added red, white and blue pinwheels to the front. They were attached with hot glue.<br />
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I love the simplicity of this costume! This is proof that you can create something really fun and amazing with just a few supplies and a couple of hours. It's perfect Kerri, thanks for sharing Jarrett's costume with us!<br />
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Cardboard<br />
Posterboard (pink, white & black)<br />
Hot glue gun & glue sticks<br />
Spray paint (2 pink, 1 white, 1 red)<br />
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2 Dowel rods<br />
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First we sketched a design of one side of the car on cardboard (measuring approx length we wanted using wheelchair). Repeat for the other side and measure to cut out pieces of cardboard for the front and back of the car. We used small bowls to sketch circles on black poster board for the wheels & then cut them out. Then sketched smaller circles on white poster board that were glued inside the black circles. The cardboard was spray painted pink and was glued together. The small red bows for the wheels, mirrors, door handles, tail lights were cut out of white posterboard and painted red. The large red bow on her chair was cut out of cardboard and spray painted. The eyes and whiskers on front were cut out of black posterboard. White posterboard was folded and painted pink for the ears. Use white posterboard for the nose & color it yellow. We found pages in a Hello Kitty coloring book, colored them & cut out to glue on the doors and back. The license plate was cardboard with a piece of posterboard glued to it. A dash was also made out of a piece of cardboard and a steering wheel cut out of posterboard was attached! White posterboard was used as the front fender and can be used for the bumper (we ran out of posterboard so painted cardboard for the bumper). The car sat over the wheelchair and had a dowel rod attached to the cardboard to keep it in place in the back. it was then zip tied to the handle bar. A dowel rod was split in half, taped & glued to the cardboard and used to zip tie to each side of her wheelchair in the front. <br />
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Trying to find colorful material that is also waterproof is a bit of a challenge. Old foam mats gave us a great surface that can be glued and painted and cut up. The back of the mat has a colorful and smooth surface that holds the paint very well. It is also the perfect size to fit on a walker.</div>
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The pieces of the mat fit together into a cube shape. Each side of a cube and held together with the top (green). The sides can be glued together, and the part that sticks out can be cut so that you can tape over a smooth surface. Yellow duct tape holds the sides in place without being too obvious on the mat. The wheels and the center part can be cut out.</div>
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The subway car is covered in graffiti. The graffiti used the 4 turtle colors, and writing. If you put the graffiti on after you have taped it together then the graffiti will help to hide the tape. But make sure you have everything taped up.</div>
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To help the graffiti pop out, we outlined the words in black permanent marker. We wrote “Turtle Power” on one side and “TMNT” on the opposite side. The turtle colors covered each corner of the car, overlapping to the front of the subway car, the colors were opposite on the other side so that all 4 colors show at the front.</div>
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The back has blue rocket boosters (with blue flames cut from foam sheets), and red bumpers, made from red cups that are glued together and taped on. The SHELL RAISER sign went on the back as well, with glue to hold in place. To help to hold the Shell Raiser in place, a hole was cut into the back to hold the basket of the walker in place.</div>
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I glued foam strips onto a cake pan. I tried a couple of different designs to see what I wanted to use. I got a pack of letters to make up the NYC SEWER and glued them in place. I cut the edges off that overlapped.</div>
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The aluminium foil covered the cake pan. I found that the letters for the sewer didn’t stand out enough so I put on 2 layers of foil. Gently press between the foam and around the letters.<br />
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To help it to stand out more, use the grey paint. With the darker grey went in the middle and the lighter color went over the letters. It doesn’t have to be neat, and if the aluminum foil breaks, don’t worry.<br />
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The sewer grate sits over the wheelchair handles so that it overlaps over the head.<br />
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Another great costume for both walker and wheelchair by Amanda! Thanks for always sharing your awesome creations with us. I love the manhole cover. It looks awesome.<br />
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<i>You can see more step-by-step instruction for creating a manhole cover by clicking <a href="http://www.thescrapshoppeblog.com/2013/09/diy-1-manhole-cover.html">here</a>.</i><br />
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Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634885711864748059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075890093040902325.post-18730801898108580872014-10-27T15:09:00.001-05:002014-10-31T10:13:08.259-05:00Ambulance<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been 4 years since I made this costume....but I'm going to do my best to explain the building process from memory. The first thing we did was cut our design from cardboard. I usually cut the sides first and then add a piece of cardboard at the front and another at the back. I use hot glue to attach all the pieces so that I have one solid body. Later we cut a piece of cardboard to go on front of the kart...kinda like the front bumper with the sides. Again using hot glue to hold everything. The front bumper was attached to the main body of the kart. We also made a spoiler using a long rectangular piece of cardboard with square pieces on each end. That completed the body of the kart. I painted it red. I painted a foam ring black for the steering wheel and used zip ties to attach it to the frame of his kart. </div>
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The styrofoam cones were painted silver to be the exhaust pipes in the back. Later I hot glued red tissue paper to them to look like flames. To attach the cones, we just cut holes into the back of the kart frame and shoved the cones through. I used hot glue to make sure they were secure. We cut a small hole in the spoiler so that Caleb's handlebar would fit through. We didn't attach the spoiler to the actual kart, it was just held on by the handle bar. </div>
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Foam pages<br />
Grey x3<br />
Black x1<br />
Orange x3<br />
Light blue x3<br />
Pink x3<br />
Foam squares<br />
Red<br />
Green<br />
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Black<br />
Orange<br />
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Green plastic table cloth<br />
Plastic plates<br />
Permanent Markers (black, silver, pink, red, orange, yellow, purple, blue)<br />
Thick cardboard plaque-board<br />
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My son’s favorite thing was the Backyardigans t.v show. His favorite character was Tyrone. Each Backyardigan character lives in their own house (with their own colour) and they all meet every day in the backyard. So we decided to surround my son in his ‘backyard’ with the houses around him. This turned into a much more ‘crafty’ project than I had originally anticipated, but he was very happy with the result (and the houses are used afterwards to play with.<br />
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Living in Canada the costume had to be able to withstand rain (and it did). Everything was made with plastic or foam. The houses were held in place with poscipcles sticks along the back (like an L brace) and then glued into a green foam square.<br />
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I used the foam glue to hold it all together. I was worried about the holt glue gun (and I don’t think I could find it). The roof sat on the bottom of the house and just folded over. I got extra long pieces of the black and grey. I used tape and glue on the back to keep it in place. The doors and windows and shutters all glued directly on, and the stairs are 3 layers of foam to make steps.</div>
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The three houses were mounted on a heavy cardboard board. A hole was cut into the cardboard so that it fit around the wheelchair and fit into the handle bars. The blue and pink houses sat on either side of my son in his wheelchair and the orange one was between the handle bars behind him. Everything was covered in a green plastic table cloth. It tilted so that my son came up between the houses.</div>
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For the walker costume we did the same costume, only I wasn’t going to be making up more foam houses. I used plastic dinner plates and cut out the shapes of houses. I used permanent marker to colour the house in. The houses are held up with popsicle sticks glued together on either side and then glued to a cardboard board. I used green painter tape to hold it all in place. And covered it with a green plastic table cloth. </div>
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Living in Canada, making a Halloween costume that is waterproof is very important. As expected, there was rain on Halloween night and the costume held up great. Looking for materials that could stand up against the rain and still pop with colour. Foam became my new best friend, it was bright, easy to cut and manipulate and could get wet. You can cut it, glue it, colour it.</div>
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We found a box that fit over the entire wheelchair and cut out a hole to fit over the seat, with space enough to sit. Covering the wheels meant that my son couldn't move himself, but at the time he didn't show any interest. The box rested on the armrests and sat just above the ground. It stayed in place without anything to strap it in. Cut open up the garbage bags and position the bag so that the top hangs along the bottom of the box. Tape the bags in place along the cut-out hole, we used skull and cross-bone duct tape to hold it in place (duct tape does have latex in it). I also used tape or glue the garbage bags down along the bottom.</div>
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I bunched up blue recycling bags up and glue them along the bottom of the box (so that it looks like waves). I used foam to decorate the boat. With a foam roll cut into the shape of the railings, and port holes as well as a skull and crossbones foam decal. I used glue to stick everything onto sides and front. I overlapped the railing so that it sits partly above the box.</div>
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With the foam I also cut out a captain's wheel, anchor from foam. I traced and cut out the design first and then outlined it in permanent marker. We had a treasure chest lunch box, so I got fake jewels from the dollar store (and an odd crown or so) and filled the lunch box. To complete the costume we also had a stuffed parrot and a sword.</div>
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For a name I added some stick-on letters. <b><i>The Jolly Wheeler</i></b>.</div>
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For the flag and mast I used a broom stick for the mast. When I first started making the flag we only had a pirate skull-cap I got from the dollar store, but by Halloween we had an actual pirate flag. It was important for the flag to be ‘flying’ and not just hanging limp, so I used cardboard in the cap to hold it up, and then glued the cap together. </div>
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I cut black fabric for the sails. I cut a hole in the middle so it will fit over the broom handle. The coat hangers, taped in upside down (with the hanger part cut off) held the fabric in place. </div>
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The flag and past sat up against the back of the wheelchair, with a loop made from pipe cleaner that was taped into place.<br />
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My son preferred his walker for smaller areas, so I wanted a wheelchair and a walker costume. A lot of the extras from the wheelchair could be moved over and onto the walker ‘ship’. For the walker I cut up a cardboard box. I cut the bottom off of the box, and one end, then I cut a hole in the top of the box, leaving a slight edge. Then covered with black garbage bags, using tape and glue to keep it down. The front of the walker is left open for movement.<br />
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To keep the box in place over the walker I cut a line in the centre of the back to hold the lunch bag in place over the back. Using pipe cleaner, and tape I held it in place along the back of the handle and over the front wheels.</div>
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shapes to the wheelchair in foam to decorate. The anchor, captain
wheel, flag and mast and treasure chest all moved from the
wheelchair. I created a spy-glass from a paper towel roll and covered
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The Jolly Walker had a little loop from pipe-cleaners to hold the sword and also to help to keep the mast in place.</div>
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PVC Pipe<br />
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Card Board (Refrigerator Size)<br />
2 Battery Operated sticky lights<br />
Metal Cake pan<br />
Red reflectors<br />
Tempera paint: Blue, orange, green & yellow & orange construction paper<br />
Black permanent marker<br />
Bolts<br />
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Wooden rod<br />
2” C-clamp<br />
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Old power wheels tires and steering wheel<br />
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We used huge card board boxes to form The Mystery Machine. We used PVC pipe to secure the van and several C-clamps to mount the van on Jacob’s wheel chair. I wanted to give his costume some more texture and hide all of the duck tape we had used to form the van so I used spackling paste on the entire thing! It gave the van a smoother look but it also made the van EXTREMELY heavy. If you decide to use this be careful because as it dries and the more you move it, it will crack. We took apart an old Power Wheels and used the tires and steering wheel. We screwed the wheels onto the card board and PVC frame. I cut pieces of construction paper into circles and glued them onto card board which I then glued onto each of the four tires. In the front of the Mystery Machine I used yellow spray paint to paint the round cake pan and glued the flower onto the front of the cake pan that we then screwed into the cardboard. We used two battery operated lights and large PVC tubes to create the head lights. We used a wooden rod in the back of the van to reinforce as well as balance the back of the van. Jacob really enjoyed this costume because the steering wheel would turn as if he was driving the Mystery Machine. <br />
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Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634885711864748059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075890093040902325.post-78214618750436828942014-10-15T11:24:00.000-05:002014-10-15T11:24:07.923-05:00Buzz Lightyear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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PVC Pipe<br />
Box cutter<br />
Card Board (Refrigerator Size)<br />
4 Battery Operated blinking flashlights<br />
4 blue bowls (dollar store)<br />
Tempera paint: Blue, Purple, Grey, Red & white<br />
Zip ties<br />
Bolts<br />
Painter’s putty or spackling paste<br />
Gloves<br />
2” C-clamp<br />
Duck tape<br />
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This one was pretty tricky by far the most complicated costume yet! We cut the card board to form the rocket ship. We used the PVC pipe to create the frame on the inside of the ship. We then anchored it to Jacob’s chair using the C-clamps. We used left over card board to form the wings for the ship. We screwed 4 blue bowls on the back of the ship. I wanted to try something this year to give his costume some more texture and hide all of the duck tape we had used to form the rocket shape so I used spackling paste on the entire thing! It gave the ship a smoother look but it also made the ship really heavy. If you decide to use this be careful because as it dries and the more you move it, it will crack. We used zip ties to hold the lights that blinked on the sides of the rocket ship. We had an old light necklace that we zip tied to the front of the ship; at night the lights looked amazing! Once the spackling dried (overnight) I drew the Buzz emblem using a pencil which makes it easy to erase. If you erase you may notice some left behind eraser marks but don’t worry because you can use white tempera paint to cover your mistakes. To Infinity and Beyond!!!<br />
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Using the third board, measure the width needed across the front of the chair to glue all boards together. Glue the right, left and front of the train and measure to make sure it will fit. Next, you will use left over board to measure, cover and glue the top of the train(where the steam comes out). Glue all boards together to form the sides, top, and front of the train. Fit on the chair to make sure everything is going fine. If no modifications are needed, remove train for next step.</div>
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Last step will be to cover the coffee tin or whichever cylinder you are using with black posterboard. This will be the part of the train where the steam comes out. This will be hot glued to the top of the train behind the face. Place hot glue along the bottom edge. You can use spider web from the Halloween section for the steam. This does not need to be hot glued but you can glue it if you want. I stretched it out just a tad to give the smokey look.</div>
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The total time spent on project was 3 hours. Total cost was under $10 I bought most of the materials at Dollar Tree or a local dollar store(I already owned the hot glue gun and glue sticks). Best part of all was my son had a blast in it. </div>
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Great job Olivia! Thanks for sharing your awesome creation. I love that it only cost $10! Proof that anyone can create these amazing costumes with some basic supplies and a few dollars.</div>
<br />Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634885711864748059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075890093040902325.post-40101230404032794122014-10-15T08:17:00.000-05:002014-10-15T08:17:51.198-05:00Pirate Ship <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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PVC Pipe<br />
Box cutter<br />
Card Board (Refrigerator Size)<br />
Bolts<br />
2” C-clamp<br />
Gorilla Glue<br />
Skull (party city)<br />
Pirate lunch box<br />
Pirate’s gold (party city)<br />
Anchor chain (party city)<br />
Black raven (party city)<br />
Metallic link chain (party city)<br />
Jute roll (party city)<br />
Old carpet roll<br />
Duck tape<br />
Black curtain<br />
Black and white felt<br />
Brown spray paint<br />
Brown Tempera paint<br />
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We shaped the cardboard box into a pirate ship. We used PVC pipe to make the frame and used bolts and gorilla glue to hold it all together. Once we made the frame we used c-clamps to anchor the ship to Jacob’s chair. I painted the ship with brown tempera paint and used a back and forth motion to give it that old wood look. We I spray painted the old carpet roll with brown spray paint and placed it on the back of Jacob’s chair in between some metal pieces that came out of the back end of his chair. We cut a hole through the carpet pole and glued it in. We then tied the black curtain to the PVC to make the sails. I draped the jute roll over the pirate ship and cut a whole big enough to sit Jacob inside of his pirate ship. I used gorilla glue to hold the skull on the front of the ship and placed pieces of gold and treasures on the top of his ship. Good Luck!<br />
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Another great costume from Clarrissa! We love it.<br />
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Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634885711864748059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075890093040902325.post-37622365319861538942014-10-15T08:10:00.000-05:002014-10-15T08:10:15.205-05:00Motorcycle Rider<div style="text-align: center;">
Watch out for this guy! He's taking over the road!</div>
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PVC Pipe<br />
Card Board<br />
Battery Operated Light<br />
Styrofoam for gas tank (we used an old bicycle tank)<br />
Black spray paint<br />
Metallic grey spray paint<br />
Lawn mower tire<br />
Zip ties<br />
Bolts<br />
Duck tape<br />
2” C-clamp<br />
Force pump plunger<br />
Gorilla Glue<br />
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We were pretty lucky with this design because we took a part an old motorcycle bicycle. We bought several pieces of PVC pipe and made the handle bars and frame out of PVC. We spray painted the pieces while they were separated because once you start drilling and shaping your motorcycle you don’t want to take it apart. We screwed in the tire to the PVC as well as the tank. We used the zip ties to hold down the card board. You’re probably wondering what we used the plunger for but that was our make shift head light! We also cut out card board and made a speedometer. After we made the body we then attached the motorcycle piece to Jacob’s wheelchair using 3 c-clamps for a mount which is easy to remove the entire piece. Most of these materials you can find at your local hardware store. Good Luck!<br />
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Awesome Clarrissa, thanks so much for sharing Jacob's costume with us!<br />
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<br />Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634885711864748059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075890093040902325.post-30488752692279374262013-10-08T08:56:00.002-05:002013-10-08T08:56:46.535-05:00Dry Bones CostumeLeave it to Caleb to choose an obscure character from Mario as his Halloween costume of choice. Dry Bones. You can't buy a Dry Bones costume. It doesn't exist. There are costumes for Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Yoshi, Waluigi, Wario and even Toad. But not Dry Bones.<br />
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"Who is Dry Bones?" you ask. Well the older folks out there might remember Dry Bones in his original form from Super Mario 3:</div>
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That's vintage Dry Bones right there.</div>
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He's basically a skeleton Koopa Troopa</div>
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<i>(can I just say how much I LOVED Super Mario 3, man that brings back memories)</i></div>
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Dry Bones has changed quite a bit over the years. This is modern day Dry Bones...driving a car.</div>
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You can see how I had my work cut out for me in trying to make a Dry Bones costume! I scoured the internet looking for some other crazy moms who attempted to make a Dry Bones costume. I found one. I actually emailed this mom who made her son a DB costume several years ago. She gave me some basic direction on how to get started and I just went with it.</div>
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Something to use for a shell (you'll see what I used in a minute)</div>
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I found this printable for <a href="http://familyfun.go.com/printables/skeleton-arms-iron-on-1023795/">Skeleton Arms</a>. I used it as my template. I cut 4 bone shapes out of white felt. These will go on the sleeves of the black shirt.</div>
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Then I cute a bunch of white strips of felt to put across (horizontally) the front of the black shirt. Now I don't sew so I bought some of that iron on "no sew" adhesive. I attempted to iron on the felt bones and strips to the black shirt...I got poor results. Not sure why it didn't stick well, but it didn't. So, I had to hand sew (no sewing machine in this house) the parts that wouldn't stick down. </div>
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I should mention that you can also add "bones" to a pair of black pants for a full outfit. I didn't do this with Caleb because I knew no one would be able to see his pants with his wheelchair costume on. Why make something that no one is going to see right?</div>
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Next I cut out 2 black felt circles and 2 smaller orange felt circles for the eyes. I sewed those to the white beanie.</div>
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For the shell I found a Captain America shield at Party City. I found the last shield in stock. The price: $15!! How these people can charge $15 for a round piece of plastic is beyond me. Anyway, it was my lucky day because the straps on the back of the shield were broken. So I did a little wheelin' and dealin' with the manager and got the shield for half price. I still think $7.50 is ridiculous for something that probably cost 4 cents to make but I had to have something.</div>
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I took Captain America's shield home and gave it a makeover:</div>
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And that is how you make a Dry Bones costume! Hopefully this post will help some poor mom years from now who has a kid that wants to be Dry Bones for Halloween. Your welcome.</div>
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Now for the wheelchair part of the costume.</div>
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I'm not going to give step by step instructions on how I made the wheelchair part of the costume. There really isn't a rhyme or reason to the madness. Glenn just brings home a giant cardboard box, I cut it up and then just play around with the pieces until they resemble a car.</div>
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Somehow I turned all that cardboard into this:</div>
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I used black and white checkered Duck Tape for the stripes.</div>
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I used Glow-n-the-dark Duck Tape for the Dry Bones emblem (I cut it out with an exacto knife)</div>
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I got a styrofoam cone and painted it silver, added red tissue paper for fun.</div>
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If you are familiar with Mari Kart you know you get items (shells, banana peels, stars, etc). I printed the star out and added it to the back of the car. I thought it added a nice touch.</div>
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At the last minute I decided to do something with the wheels. I bought black poster board, cut big circles to fit on the hand rims and I added more bone shapes (cut from white paper) as the wheel spokes.</div>
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I'm kinda proud of it. This may be my favorite wheelchair costume yet.</div>
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<br />I used one big box for the body of the train, but you could use a few pieces and glue or tape them together. Then I measured where I thought the train should sit on the chair. I freehanded the design for the top of the train and used a straightedge to make bars, leaving a gap big enough for him to get his arms out and wheel himself. Once I cut out the train, I fit it onto the chair and marked where the brakes hit so I could cut out a spot for them. Then the fun part! I spray painted the inside of the train, and decorated the outside with acrylic craft paints (I tried kids' poster paint first but it would have taken 100 coats to cover) and glitter.</div>
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<br /><br />For the wheels, I measured and used a big compass to draw the right size circles. I cut them out, painted them, and affixed them with zip ties. The smaller circles were hard to attach, but I managed with a couple of zip ties and a few extra pieces of cardboard. The exact process is probably different for every chair, so you may have to figure that part out on your own. :)<br />
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<b>What you will need:</b><br />A box large enough to fit over wheelchair<br />a box to cut the legs out of <br />a horse head on a stick<br />black paint<br />spray paint to match the horse head<br />yarn to match the color of the horse's hair<br /><br /><b>Assembly:</b><br />It was pretty straight-forward. Cut the box to fit over the wheelchair and then make two cut-outs for his arms. Using the second box, cut out shapes for the horses legs. We also used a smaller box as the horse's neck. Once all pieces are cut, spray paint them all the same color as the horse's head. Once the spray paint dries, pain the horse's feet and saddle black. Assemble all pieces, and stick the horse on a stick through a hole in the main box. That's it!! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thank Leigh from "<a href="http://ourlittlegibblet.blogspot.ca/">Our Little Gibblet</a>" for the great idea!</div>
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I used vinyl peel and stick sticker material (like for the cricut machine) but anything would work fabric/paper/durable plastic/painted cardboard...I just cut out the pattern and stuck it on!<div>
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This is great Dawn! I love how simple and easy this is. A wheelchair costume doesn't have to be complicated or hard. Thanks for sharing!<br /><br /></div>
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First we cut out the cardboard into the shape we wanted for the sides of the Batmobile. I cut out a rectangle for the back of the Batmobile and a square for the front. I spray painted the cardboard black, at least 2 coats of paint.</div>
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Then I glued the front square to the sides and finished it up by gluing the back rectangle. That gives you the Batmobile shape. It only takes 4 pieces of cardboard to make the Batmobile. At the last minute I cut out a thin rectangle shape, painted it black, and added it to the front of the Batmobile to make a dashboard</div>
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The Batmobile fit really nice around Caleb's chair so we only had to add a little string to tie it to his back seat bars.</div>
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<br />I think we pretty much followed the directions above using cardboard, posterboard and zip ties. The only deviations were using small wooden dowels we bought at home improvement store (spray painted black) and attached the digger and overhead canopy to. We poked holes in both (reinforcing the holes and the diggers edges with yellow duct tape) and attached the dowels with zip ties.<br /><br />We also used double sided velcro regular to help stabilize the dowels to the back of his wheel chair for the canopy. We attached the wheel "covers" with zip ties to the spokes and cut slits in several places after they were assembled to help them lay flat, just using a glue stick on those slits. We also used yellow latex yellow paint for cardboard. Lastly, we used regular old duct tape to be the reflector on his sweatshirt :)<br />
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Thanks Holli from "<a href="http://ourdoubleblessings.blogspot.com/">Our Double Blessings</a>" for sharing Alex' costume!<br />
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Cassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08634885711864748059noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4075890093040902325.post-74047169756241302552012-10-31T09:15:00.000-05:002012-10-31T09:15:19.877-05:00Police Car Wheelchair Costume<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>You need:</b><br /> Cardboard<br />Spray paint (with primer)<br />Gray pipe insulation (for the bumper)<br />Hot glue<br />Construction paper<br /> <br />We cut the cardboard in the shape of the car and then assembled the pieces together using a glue gun. We cut pipe insulation and glued to the front and back for the bumper. We used thick cardboard covered in yellow paper for the headlights. White construction paper lightly colored with blue chalk for the windows. We attached the car to the wheelchair using garden twine. It kind of rested on the wheel rims and we just tied it in several different places to stay put.<div>
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Thank you Michelle for sharing Brendan's costume!</div>
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