Green Halloween
"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.
xoxo,
Sarah
My four year old daughter is deliberating between being an owl (inspired by the new addition to our leafy neighbourhood who has been hooting from the trees each night) or being a black cat. Given how often she changes her mind, we’ll need both costumes sorted for the 11th hour decision on October 31! 😂🐈⬛🦉
Amy R on
My son wants to be a bee this year after reading a beloved book about the work of bees in the beehive.
Lauren on
My son wants to be a rainbow. Not quite sure how we’re going to achieve that yet though
Hannah on
We will be dressing as vampires! My husband and I will be the vampires in classic old-fashioned outfits, while our bebes are little bats that have not transformed yet. The Sarah’s Silks bat wings and bat ears will be perfect for our kiddos costumes! 🥰
KesAmber on
My 5 year old is going to be a super cat and my 7 year old is going to be super girl!
Jennifer Jaeger on
My children will dress up this year using costumes that my mom made for us as children. An angel, a ladybug, a bear and Santa. I love that they can wear such wonderful costumes made with so much love by their grandma.
Jeanne M. on
We are making Holloween a family affair this year! Our little girl, Sydney (age 6) loves s’mores! So she is going as a marshmallow, our Son, Landon (age 8) is going as the Hershey chocolate bar and my husband and I are going as the graham crackers. Unsure if we are going to get our cat to dress up as a little bonfire, we will what I can find.
Christina Bales on
My girls change their minds about 5-10 times each before they decide what they will be on Halloween but currently we will probably have a princess, a snail, a wolf, a ballerina, a fairy, a Gryffindor student, a basketball player, a bat and an owl.
Alyson on
Mine wants to be a superhero. Our silks will make the perfect cape!
Lindsey on
My kiddos will be dressing up as a puffin bird and a flying bat. Can’t wait to walk our neighborhood!
Christina on
My daughter just turned five, and for every Halloween thus far, I’ve crocheted her a costume! She’s been a lion, an elephant, and this year, a fairy, with a handmade twirly whirly rainbow dress! We have a bunch of playsilks and my daughter loves to incorporate them into her costumes – I’d love to get a set of wings for her fairy costume: yarn is not as light and floaty as silk, so it would be the perfect finishing touch! Big thank you to your company for providing such a wonderful open ended item that can be used for so many different things: a fort, a costume, a blanket, a streamer, the possibilities are endless! They are a true workhorse in my child’s toy rotation.
Emily on
Our family tries to represent a children’s book or fairytale each year. This year we settled on “Dragons Love Tacos.” We already have several pairs of dragon ears and dragon silk scarves from Sarah’s Silks; just need to whip up some tails! Our black lab, Clover, will be dressed up as a taco, because everybody loves Clover!! We’ve already found some taco bandaids to hand out and taco stickers to put on candy. Plus, we have about a dozen copies of the book to give away to families that don’t already have a copy…now for designing a dragon’s taco stand…
Lisa Dunn on