For the eighth year, a dad builds Effie a wheelchair costume for the parade
Chris Nesin built another wheelchair costume for his daughter Effie, who led the look of Red Bank Elementary's Halloween parade in Chattanooga.
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Chris Nesin built another costume around his daughter Effie's wheelchair for Red Bank Elementary's Halloween parade, WTVC reported. It is the eighth year he has done it. Effie was the star of the parade in Chattanooga.
The count is eight years of one family's costumes. The station's story is this parade and this build, not a pattern every parent is expected to match.
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Effie goes to Red Bank Elementary in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and she uses a wheelchair. For eight years her dad, Chris Nesin, has built a new costume around that wheelchair for the school Halloween parade. A costume on a wheelchair can be as big as a float, something the whole chair becomes. This year was the eighth. Effie is the person the parade looks for. The news is a father who keeps inventing, and a school parade that has a place for her in the middle of it. Eight is the number of years, not the number of costumes other families have to copy.
- How can a wheelchair be part of a costume instead of something to hide?
- What would you build if the costume could be as big as a chair?
- How does a school parade change when everyone can be in it?
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