"You were once a yellow pumpkin
sitting on a sturdy vine,
Now you are a Jack-o'-lantern,
let your little light shine."
Here at Sarah's Silks we love celebrating festivals! Halloween is a fun one that can be spent doing activities all month that are out in nature and nurturing for young children.
Wonderful ideas for a green, earth-friendly Halloween include pumpkin patch visits, followed by pumpkin carving and baking and eating pumpkin treats. Long walks gathering fall leaves and acorns. Baking bread, making candles, sitting by the fire, and of course, dressing up!
Playsilks are one of the best, most creative tools for making your own costume. We've seen children use them to become ghosts, witches, genies, flying machines, almost anything you can imagine can be created (with a bit of added magic) with a special colored Playsilk.
Adding Face Paint makes even more characters possible - think tiger stripes on cheeks paired with a tiger Playsilk.
Trick-or-treat baskets are another great earth-friendly way to stay away from plastics. Baskets are beautiful and will be used over and over in many ways.
Leave a comment about what your children are dressing up as for Halloween and enter to win a $100 gift card to our shop!
5 winners will be chosen 10/1 and announced here!
xoxo,
Sarah
Our winners have been contacted by email and are:
Ashley Riley, Kimi, Patricia Barnes, Kasia, and Katrina.
My littles are dressing up as blue dragons!
April on
My niece is full into her imagination play era. She loves pretending to be “let it go” and has elected her family members to be other characters from the movie and her pretend play. I’ll be making her Elsa dress and am especially excited to make an Olaf costume for her dad!
Carolyn on
My 3 will be parading as a green Forest Fairy, a purple Blackberry Fairy and and Royal Red Knight. They are dressing in both purchased Sarah’s Silks and our very first experience in dyeing custom silks!
J Mazzone on
My son has requested to be a zombie! Lol so far we have a great selection of facepaint to work with and plenty of fabric options to complete his look! Ill be styling his hair with hair paste to look messy. He is very excited :)
Carrie on
My daughter is all about ghost spider currently so she’s doing that for Halloween and my 4 month old son, we’re making him spider man so we’ll be using Sarah’s silks to make him a cute little cape!
Bobbie Sulley on
I think my daughter is going to be a puppy dog. Last year she was a cute little duck.
Amy Greenway on
My kiddo is going to be Chloe from the newest Descendants movie!
Andrea on
My kiddo is going to be an autumn prince of the woodlands for Halloween! 🍂 🍁
We dyed a white Sarah’s silk with turmeric to use as an cape and are preserving autumn leaves with bees wax to use as a crown and making a sword or wand out of foraged items from nature walks!
Kimi on
This Halloween our girls are 3 and 5. Our 3 year old is very opinionated and insisted on being Elsa, and our 5 year old loved her costume so much we had to get two! Our older daughter is special needs and it’s often hard to understand what she wants, so when it was so when she gives us clear answers we are so happy to oblige. We will have a royal pair visiting all their subjects, it’s going to be great! 👸🏻💛👸🏻💛
Christine Walczyk on
My typically reserved 2-year-old asked to be a tiger this year. I’m excited for him to practice roaring in Sarah’s Silks 🐅
Stephanie G on
Our family this year will have two Moana’s (our 5 & 2 year olds), Maui (dad), Te Feti (mom), and Hei Hei the chicken (our 4 month old). We have a new stroller wagon which we’ll use as Moana’s boat! We’ll tie our water silks to the wagon for great effect 😀
Kailee Morrill on
We made a fox costume and dump truck costume!! Baby will be Tinkerbell! We used recycled fabrics from our thrift store.
Lauren Halepis on