Twenty years ago, Lon Davis had to get creative for Halloween. His 3-year-old son, Reese, wanted to dress up as Wall-E. But Reese, who was born with cancer, had just gotten his first wheelchair that year. Without a wheelchair-friendly costume available to buy, Davis built one for Reese out of a Dell computer box.
That costume became so popular that people started asking Davis to build accessible costumes for their children. In 2015, father and son founded Walkin’ & Rollin’ Costumes to help other children with walkers and wheelchairs have the Halloween costume of their dreams.
Over 10 years of running the nonprofit, Davis said Walkin’ & Rollin’ has provided more than 200 costumes for kids across the country, including more than 30 this year alone. One of those was the group’s first international costume for a girl in Canada…