These Halloween crafters are building intricate wheelchair-ready costumes
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Rolloween makes the Halloween holiday more inclusive for all kids. The Montreal company can request just about anything as a costume, too.
Bob Murphy is putting the final touches on an elaborate pink and purple ice cream truck design as Halloween quickly approaches.
The handyman by trade is working around the clock to finish creating the ensemble for young Florence as part of Rolloween, an initiative that crafts adaptive costumes for children with reduced mobility.
“People love Halloween and we love helping the kids,” Murphy said in an interview over the weekend inside his garage in Montreal’s Rosemont neighbourhood.
The outfit, called Cornetterie chez Flo, boasts a window display of multicoloured ice cream cones and tiny lights line the interior of it. Pool noodles were used to design the wheels and it also features headlights for safe trick-or-treating.
It is one of two costumes that Murphy and about a dozen volunteers who form Duct Tapers Anonymous are crafting this year. The other is a supersonic motorcycle outfit for a boy named Harold.
“We’re all builders and creators so this brings us back to our childhood,” Murphy said.
In 2018, Duct Tapers Anonymous came up with Rolloween to make the holiday more inclusive for all children. Kids can request just about anything as a costume and the team does their best to make their dreams come true free of charge.
The whole initiative is supported by volunteers who fill Murphy’s workshop and driveway. Over the years, they’ve learned to make the costumes as light as possible. They work with all kinds of materials, including latex paint, metal, foam, rubber and magnets. Their elaborate creations are built with the help of welding, gluing and painting.
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