"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.
We like to do characters from favorite books! Two years ago my daughter was the witch from Room on the Broom and our little dog was the dragon. We repurposed a lot of items we already had, including the orange yarn I used to make the “long ginger braid”! So. Much. Fun!
Madeleine on
We love dress up time! So Halloween is a treat! My sons have used silks on their heads to be kings, and dragons and most recently on their shoulders to dress up as Superman. The uses are endless. This year we are thinking of using the fire silk to go as fireman, or the stars silk as an asteroid or galaxy. Never too early to embrace abstract archetypes!
Caroline on
One year I made a digger for my toddler from cardboard delivery boxes. Not only was it a hit as a costume, it remained a staple of his pretend play for years afterwards. We also love using our local Buy Nothing group to find and gift items within the community.
Erin on
We like to piece our costumes together with things we already have or thrift store clothing. No cheap plastic costumes in our house.
Krystal Bixel on
We have lots of silks, but no silk dress up stuff.
My 3 year old raised butterflies with daycare, and they had a release party. I used the fairy wings as inspiration, and tied scrunchies to the corners of a silk. Then I fed it through one of those stretchy hair bands to create a wing shape, which I could also pin to her shirt without putting a pin into the silk. It worked great!
On a daily basis, silks are mostly used as baby carriers and backpacks, though we’re starting to get into skirts and capes on occasion, too.
Karen on
We enjoy local apple cider — warm or cold depending upon the weather. This year, I made a costume from old fabric (sheets and clothes that have seen better days).
Bentley Davis on
Halloween at our home is all about the beauty and richness of autumn and imagination. There’s a nature/story table decorated with playsilks, handmade wooden figures, pumpkins, and jack-o-lanterns, stories and poems read, nature walks, crafts, warm autumn harvest foods, and pretending using silks, wool crowns, and recycling paper bags to make costumes. Sometimes our stuffed animal friends get paper masks and playsilk or wool capes and wings!
Kim on
My girls love to bring their baby dolls with them to seasonal festivities. We can always match our costumes with Sarah’s Silks used as a baby wrap to baby wear their baby dolls. Our silks have been flags as pirates and capes as superhero’s. Veils for saints and wings for fairies.
Sonja on
During the year I have been intentional on getting a costume for each kid from the local buy nothing group. That way we are not buying new, and now that it’s time, we aren’t stressing about costumes, but are able to enjoy the season. My boys are 1 & 3, so I found costumes that match their interests, but they aren’t too picky yet.
Jessica on
I help put on a toddler friendly/not scary Halloween event every year, and we focus on games, experiments and paper crafts- no candy! We do fun pencils and bracelets for prizes. At home I now have my own toddler! I can’t wait to have him dress up. Last year he was the energizer bunny and I was a dead battery. I used a hand me down bunny playsuit we already had and my costume was a sheet of reflective paper. This year he might be a digger or an animal, it’s hard to choose! We will definitely do second hand for any costumes. The best use of a silk for a costume I have seen was my friend’s baby was a hobbit when she was 13 months old. She had a green silk cape. It was amazing!
Nicole on
We always try to get costumes secondhand off marketplace, or use what we already have. This year she wants to be Elsa (her first foray into princesses after being a beautiful butterfly using her silk wings for two years!) and we have a couple Elsa options from marketplace, plus her blue silk crown and wand from here!
Stacy McCann on
My son wants to be a tree frog. I got him green pajamas and red gloves. I also got him a green hat and glued 2 1/2 foam balls on top that I painted into eyes. He uses his small basket for his treats.
Ashley on