Wii Remote & Nunchuck Controllers Costumes

by Doug Boone
(Woodridge, IL)

Devin and Dyanna are brother & sister – Devin is almost 8 and Dyanna is 6. Along with their many interests, they also enjoy playing games on their Nintendo Wii…sometimes playing as a team, other times playing against each other as rivals. For Halloween 2009, they wanted to be something unique for Halloween, and we agreed that Wii controllers would be fun while also making a statement about their personalities and interests.

The costumes themselves were home-made and are constructed almost 100% from recycled materials. Corrugated cardboard was used for the main structure of each costume, while poster board was used for the front and back of the nunchuck. Add wood glue to hold it all together, some printouts of shapes that replicate the individual face buttons and a Styrofoam/posterboard sandwich disc on a paper towel tube for the joystick, and you have fairly representative scale examples of both controllers.

The costumes cost less than $15 to build, and they took about 12 hours of time spread across a week to complete. As a side benefit, the cardboard enclosures provided some protection against the chilly Chicago winds as the kids went trick-or-treating this Halloween. They also got to wear their coats under the costumes so we didn’t have to worry about covering up their outfits with jackets.

All in all, these made for a fun Halloween – the kids got dozens of compliments on their costumes and were the hit of the neighborhood.