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 little one is excited to be the Pokemon called Pikachu. Throughout the year, we have Pokemon matchups using the silks for different moves. She got the idea to use silks because one Pokemon shoots strings of silk to tie up its opponent. The silks have expanded their role and now serve as “razor leaves,” “string shots,” “bubble blasts” and more!
Ashley C on
My little one is trick or treating as buzz lightyear.
Jennifer on
Okay, I could lie and say we are using silks for Halloween – but we aren’t! We use them almost every day, but my son wants to be a digger and daughter black panther! It’s going to be fun!
Jenny on
Super shark with silk cape, dragon with silk wings, and a rainbow witch. At least that’s what they say today :)
Jillian on
My daughter looks just like Boo from Monsters Inc, so we got her a Boo costume
Katelyn on
Princess peach! We dyed a giant play silk the perfect color pink and draped it around her waist with an everyday wear cotton dress! We made the crown outta cardboard and lucked out with some big blue clip on earrings from a yard sale!!! She loves it!!!
Sara Indan on
My daughter was a mushroom last year in her Sarah’s silks costume and I was little witch hazel! We will do the same this year!
Diana on
We are going as Super Mario characters this year. I’m hoping to use as much of whatever is already in our current closets for our costumes, including Sarah’s Silks crowns for Princess Peach and silks for some other accessories!
Lauren on
Last year I dressed my 2 and 1 year olds are Mario and Luigi so I’m definitely looking forward to another iconic duo this year and for as long as they let me choose the theme 😂
Alissa Morgan on
I’m crocheting most of my kids costume out of second hand yard! They will be a little orange cat!
Autumn on
My almost 2-year-old loves the O’Reilly’s Autoparts jingle, so I think we are going to diy his costume to be an O’Reilly’s technician! Oh-oh-oh-O-Reillyyyyyyy’s – Auto Parts!
Emily on
My daughters are dressing up as a princess and an “evil queen” this year. :)
Samantha Downs Pérez on