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 toddler is going to be a ninja using play silks to make a ninja head scarf, neck scarf and belt. Along with some loose pants and long sleeve shirt under an oversized shirt. And belts to strap silk swords to his back.
Jackie on
My 8 year daughter wants to dress up as a color ful mummy, so we are using All the silks we have to make it as colorful as possible and wrap her in them.
Maria on
My boys love superheroes, so we are using the play silks as superhero capes this year! I would love to get the safari silks so they can option to dress as a tiger and other animals!
Lindsay on
The bat playsilks also make a great costume for WV cryptid Mothman, while learning about local spooky myths and legends.
Lindsey F on
For purim this year my daughter (4) was a princess, fairy, ballerina, t-rex. We used a crown, fairy wings, a rainbow skirt, and a star wand from Sarah’s silks with a t-rex costume we already had and of course ballet shoes.
Kymberli Morse on
My son wants to dress up as either a superhero with his green play silk or a king with his crown and red play silk!
Yolanda Williams on
A rainbow mummy! Wrapping up with lots of different colored silks. :)
Ally on
Living abroad as Americans with other ex-pats we wanted our kids to know and experience a little what Halloween was about a n America ? So we happened to be staying with friends in a house with a courtyard and multiple doors to the different rooms accessed from the courtyard. So the kids scurried And dressed up with scarves parents hats random dress ups etc. and all the parents got behind different doors from the courtyard with some local treats in hand and the kids would knock on each door and say trick-or-treat! They soon got the idea !
D christensen on
We found two jack-o-lantern costumes at a second hand shop. One for each of our little boys! Might use green silks to add to the stem part too.
Jonathan Byram on
We don’t have any play silks yet but this is the time of year when we bring our easel outside and enjoy the cooler weather while painting what we see: lots of changing leaves. I’ll let them do that while I make their costumes!
Julia Howe on
I braided the autumn silk with the spring silk to make a crown for a Lady Autumn. And my daughter placed the magical stars and moons silk in a basket for her fortune teller’s costume.
Martina on
We are tying silks by one corner onto a belt to create a fairy skirt and then doing the fairy wings. We like to celebrate welcoming the fall season instead of Halloween, so we are going to ‘flit’ through nature and find little treasures (ie colorful leaves, acorns, pine cones). Then we’ll see if we can use our found objects to do something creative with. 💛
Arwyn on