"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.
I braided the autumn silk with the spring silk to make a crown for a Lady Autumn. And my daughter placed the magical stars and moons silk in a basket for her fortune teller’s costume.
Martina on
We are tying silks by one corner onto a belt to create a fairy skirt and then doing the fairy wings. We like to celebrate welcoming the fall season instead of Halloween, so we are going to ‘flit’ through nature and find little treasures (ie colorful leaves, acorns, pine cones). Then we’ll see if we can use our found objects to do something creative with. 💛
Arwyn on
We braided silks in fun colors and turned them into tiger tails. Then the kids wore headbands with felted ears and pajamas. It was an easy transition to bedtime;)
Gina on
We love the idea of using silks to make a butterfly costume! Between that and recycled cardboard, we have made some beautiful creations!
Kailey Tynes on
My kiddos are using their playsilks (plus sword and shield!) to be knights. I just saw your instagram post with costume ideas and am trying to figure out how you tied the knight costume! We’re planning on tying up our silks like a cape!
Sarah on
We love to dress up year round! Which makes Halloween so much fun because my daughter likes to take ideas from the year and then dress them up even more for Halloween! She likes to take her play silks and make outfits like mermaid tails and tops!
Sarah Waldron on
My little girl wants to be just like her dad who works in construction. I took one of his old bright orange safety vests and hemmed it up to fit her as a jacket. Then she wore a shirt with his companies logo and a pair of jeans with her work boots. We went further and used a piece of the orange vest and turned it into a head band and I drew a mustache on her with eyeliner and she looked just like her dad without buying a thing!
Megan on
Each year we make our Halloween costumes. We tend to use old clothing and scraps to make our creations!
Ashley on
This year my 6yr wants to he Pippi Longstocking! We tend to use what we already have and on Halloween day we have a family party, making our own candy! We make yarn dollies all month from the yarn we already have and hand those out for trick or treaters as well as organic apples! We love dressing up and celebrating as a family!
Katherine Sage on
This year my kids want to be a superhero and a dump truck. For the super hero costume costume we went through her closet to find clothes too small, and I am using those to make accessories (gloves, belt, mask) and a silk for a cape! My littlest looks adorable walking around in the dump truck we crafted from packages and supplies we already had. The best part is involving the kids so everyone has a hand in creating them.
Kayla S. on
This year, my littles and I will be using clothes we already have (a brown sweater, her tan jacket, his black jumper) to be woodland creatures, and our beautiful silks to carry around as the leaves or berries they eat. We are all so excited!
Bianca Michelle on
This year we are going to recycle last years Halloween costume and add a bit of paint and become a zombie mermaid but our favorite green Halloween activity ia going around the neighborhood with the wagon collecting rotting pumpkins to donate to our neighboor for her chickens and other animals. It’s an amazing way to recycle all those pumpkins and show some extra love. The kids love it l!
Katherine Thomson on