Creative nonprofit builds costumes for children in wheelchairs

In 2014, parents Ryan and Lama Weimer successfully funded a Kickstarter campaign to build a huge, professional-grade Halloween costume to fit around their son Keaton’s wheelchair.

Eight months later, the Oregon couple is doing the same thing for other children with wheelchairs of their own.

Their non-profit organization Magic Wheelchair will build custom costumes for five lucky children, who will work with designers and architects to create something totally amazing. To apply, children submit 1-3 minute video entries (with parental permission, of course) explaining what they’d like to be for Halloween and why they should be picked for this project.

As each requires more than 120 hours of work to complete and between $2,000 and $4,000 to build, the nonprofit is already on the look out for applicants and donations.

“These wheelchair costumes have been tremendously successful; They have even been featured in newspapers, on television, and the subject of a very successful Kickstarter campaign,” Weimer writes on his the nonprofit’s page.

“Magic Wheelchair seeks to do this for every child confined to a wheelchair. The children pick the costumes and we are proud to showcase the uniqueness and individuality of each child.”

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