"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 three boys want to all be ‘rainbow warriors’ this year, so we’ll be using the silks and some face paint to rainbow-ify them, with rainbow streamers and some soft swords
Fallyn on
My 6 year old daughter is dressing up as Dorothy, but based on the original illustrations which is slightly different than the movie.
Karen on
Our little fairy-loving kid is going to be a “fairy bunny” using her Sarahs’ Silks rainbow fairy wings + a homemade bunny coat I found on Etsy! She will be quite the color combination, since she requested a red coat and her Sarah’s Silks wings are lovely pastel rainbow colors! :) We are looking forward to her first real trick-or-treating experience (we just moved to the US from Europe).
TheBeeFamily on
We love making our own costumes but havenʻt decided on what to do this year yet! Iʻm going to have to take a look through all these awesome comments to get some ideas! With baby #2 on the way, it would be fun to tie my bump into our family costume.
nikki on
My boys read the Magic Treehouse story about pirates and are obsessed. I got some wide brim wool hats off ebay and such, sewed up the sides to a tricorn, added an ostrich feather. They use the silks for the headscarf under the hat and around their waists to hold their silk swords and we also got the green silk peter pan tunic and rainbow silk tunic to complete their outfits. Wish I could share their pics, it is adorable!
Tamara Knutsen on
My 4 year old is wanting to be a electric ninja last year he was a regular ninja 😂 my 3 year old wants to be everything every day he’s like mom can I be Jack can I be a tiger can I be a bug ect 😂😂😂
Paige Flinn on
My children’s Halloween costumes are still to be determined for this year – we are considering a fox and a dinosaur, but not completely sure yet!
Elizabeth C. on
We love the Playstand from Sarah’s Silk. It adds so much coziness to our room.
Carol Wong on
My daughter is planning to be a fairy this year with a cute head crown from Sarah’s Silks!
Heather on
My kids are going to be a gnome and mail carrier for Halloween!
Jennifer Todd on
My son is going to be the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. I found the perfect costume on a resale site. My daughter is going to be a bride. Although those are the planned costumes, it’s always fun to see how they make them their own. My son likes to add a Playsilk cape to everything so he may be a Stay Puft superhero! We also have treat bags that we reuse every year. It’s fun for the kids to look back at photos from Halloween’s past and see the same treat bag.
Jessica L on
This year the kids have chosen to be a mermaid and a Transformer! We do a mix of homemade and bought accessories and I let the kids take the lead. I find that they will dress and play with the silks and costumes more at home throughout the year than out on Halloween night!
Sarah on