"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 daughter and I will be dressing up as Starbuck’s drinks! I made my own costume and plan to make hers as well, she is 1!
Michelle on
My daughter is dressing up as a butterfly!
Brooke Baum on
My son has lots of options this year thanks to the large selection! I think he’s either going to be a bat or an astronaut!
Julia Wentzel on
My son is going to be a sheep and I am going to be a farmer. I am going to make his costume by doing “blobs” of cotton on a black onesie and black sheep ears! And a bell on a necklace 🐑
Ella Gebhardt on
My Sons (3 & 1) are dressing up as baby ogres , my 3 year olds pick.
My friend crocheted the ogre Ears for them and I have yet to figure out the rest of the costume. Definitely green, need to go thrifting for a vest, thinking about doing a green play silk
Ellie wiggins on
We are going to dress up as witches this year!
Susan on
My kiddos haven’t decided on costumes yet, but I’m excited by all the new silk options! I love how versatile the costume lines are – it gets cold in the PNW, so being able to layer up but still enjoy the beautiful dress-ups is fantastic. We’ve started our fall preparations, though, and have been busy out in the yard tending the garden – we decided to try growing our own pumpkins this year. And it’s been fun explaining all the changes that take place in nature as the season shifts and they get hands-on experience with the way we can help.
Ashley Riley on
Silks make the best open-ended costume pieces. The possibilities are infinite?
Ashlie Arkwright on
Our kids usually change their minds several times during the month of October on their Halloween costumes. This year they will probably make their own costumes using various costume pieces we already own. This could also include some of our Sarah’s Silks collection! Thank you for providing open ended play for kids!
Sarah Segree on
My adult sister is using Sarah’s unicorn play silk costume to dress up with her kids (also a big hit with them)! I also recently gifted my nieces the dollhouse playsilk and just had the thought that it could be used as a dollhouse / doll costume!
Kayleigh King on
We are making all our Halloween decorations from recycled and natural materials: bats from brown bags, ghosts from saved tissue paper, witches and gnomes from whittled sticks and brooms from twigs and greenery. Crafting and decorating is a fun way to shift the focus away from the buying and candy.
My Kindergartner learned to finger knit this year, so she has been working away on her Rapunzel hair for months. We are planning to wear a silk rainbow crown to keep all this hair in place for her costume !
Joanna on
Every year we celebrate the season with long walks to appreciate all the changes the season brings.
We are currently learning how to over winter our worm compost bins so we will have lots of good stuff for next year’s garden.
Our costumes are always made, borrowed, or thrifted so that we can reduce our footprint and costs. With 4 kids in costumes lots of pieces are repurposed from one year to the next!
Marnie Becker-Baratta on