How to Make an Aladdin Halloween Costume for Kids in Wheelchairs

Anybody can be Aladdin, but only a special kid gets his own flying carpet on Halloween. Using the natural shape of your child’s wheelchair and the removable front tray, this costume creates an entire mobile Halloween scene so your child can fly around during trick or treating. The costume can be made as simple or ornate as you want, based on the materials used.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Cardboard
• Scrap of carpet about 3-feet by 5-feet
• Hot glue gun
• Scissors
• Gold tassel trim
• White sweat pants
• Pair of black socks
• Needle and black embroidery thread
• 2 bags cotton or polyester batting
• White button down shirt, baggy
• Blue or red vest
• Spray-on temporary black hair dye
• Red poster board
• Black tassel
• Sash (red, blue or brown)
• Small monkey stuffed animal
• Costume Arabic sword

Make the Wheelchair Flying Carpet

1. Attach the removable tray to your child’s wheelchair. Since every wheelchair is different, use the tray and seat back as a guide. Cut a hole in the center of the cardboard just as wide as the seat back. Cut the hole long enough to fit comfortably but snugly around the seat back and your child when seated in the wheel chair. The front of the cardboard should rest on the wheelchair tray.

2. Trim the sides of the cardboard until the wheelchair can easily fit through a standard doorway. Leave the front of the cardboard about a foot longer than the wheelchair tray. Allow the back to stick about a foot past the back of the seat.

3. Cover the top of the cardboard with a scrap of carpet with a Turkish or Oriental design. Use hot glue to secure the carpet to the cardboard. Trim the edges of the carpet scrap even with the sides of the cardboard.

4. Cut a piece of gold tassel trim to fit the front edge of the carpet and hot glue it down. Do the same along the back of the carpet.

5. Thread the needle with black embroidery thread. Stuff the socks with a small amount of batting; do not fill socks completely. Using large loop stitches, sew the socks so they are sticking out of the legs of the white sweat pants. Fold the toes of the socks into little points and use two or three loop stitches to hold them in place.

6. Stuff the legs of the sweat pants and full as possible. Fold the legs “Sultan style” and hot glue them on the carpet so the waist will meet your child’s torso.

Dress Child Like Aladdin

1. Dress your child in a baggy white button down shirt. Unbutton the first few buttons and cover it with an open, blue vest. Use spray-on hair dye to color your child’s hair black.

2. Make a round Aladdin hat with red poster board. Cut a circle about 5-inches wide. Cut a strip of cardboard about 5-inches wide and 15-inches long. Cut 1-inch slits about an inch apart down one side of the strip. Fold each tab over. Place the first folded tab at the edge of the circle and glue it. Wrap the rest of the hat’s rim around the circle, gluing each tab to the circle. Trim any excess cardboard from the hat’s rim. Glue a black tassel so it hangs from the center of the hat.

3. Seat your child in the wheelchair. Lower the carpet over his head and the chair back with the folded legs in front of him. Pull the edge of the vest up so they rest on the carpet. Pull some of the shirt up so it bags around the hole. Loosely tie a sash around his waist, under the vest, to help disguise the hole and distance to the white pants.

4. Give your child a stuffed monkey to be “Abu” and a plastic, costume Arabic sword to carry.

Tips & Warnings

• Be sure the flying carpet costume fits easily through a standard doorway.