Coolest Homemade Wall E on Wheelchair Costume

Last year, my son, Reese, wanted to be Wall-E. The challenge was creating a costume around my son’s wheelchair that would still enable him to drive his wheelchair inside the costume. He also wanted to be able to move Wall-E’s arms and grab the candy with them. Everything is controlled from inside.

I started this Homemade Wall E on Wheelchair Costume with a Dell computer box. The box was painted by spray paint with details being done by a paint brush. The front-top-center panel was printed off the computer and glued on. The wheels inside the tank treds were butter tubs with paper plated glued on the end of them. The paper plates were painted black with a print out of Wall-E’s wheel images glued to them. The tank tred was just cardboard, scored many times so it would curve around the wheels. I then created the tank tred on the computer and printed it out in many strips, gluing it around the tred.

The arms were purchased at a toy store. But I sprayed some brown paint on them to make them look aged. The handles of the arms were inserted into slits in the box, so my son could grab them from inside and make them open and close.

Materials:

1. a wheelchair
2. a Dell computer box (fit perfectly around the wheels)
3. 2 Wall-E hands from the toy isle.
4. Yellow & Brown Spray paint
5. Paper plates
6. Butter tubs
7. Wall-E Party Masks
8. Hot Glue and Tape