"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 family wears regular clothing. They match a character, monster or person. When they find something that goes with their outfit is when they get excited. We reuse what we have already and having silks is great for them to use to incorporate into their costumes.
Claudia on
My 6 month old is going to be a turtle this year for Halloween. I’m crocheting the shell and belly so that after I can stuff them and make it a sweet stuffed animal. She will always be able to cuddle her first hallloween costume!
Brittany Sandbulte on
We will be chickens for our babies first Halloween. I am borrowing a friends playsilk in sunshine as a scarf!
Jen on
This year we are making our costumes out of things from our local thrift shops and our recycle bin. Our family loves how unique our costumes are when they’re hand made and also reusing material at the same time. We will be mushrooms this year using paper and cardboard for the caps and wearing cozy white and brown thrifted clothes for the stem.
AE on
This year we are all going as vikings. I am using scraps of fabric to make my kiddos costume, and my husband and I are wearing pieces we already had from when we got married.
Lauren Beymer on
We definitely want to do a Harry Potter dress up theme with our infant this year! Would do our best to thrift items, or repurpose toys and play silks and fabrics to make the costumes happen!
Emma on
We celebrate autumn with our family traditions of visiting an apple orchard and picking apples, drinking apple cider with doughnuts and baking lots of yummy apple treats. This year we plan on rolling beeswax candles and doing some leaf rubbings as well. Our daughter loves dressing up as a princess using a crown and the Starry silk. 🍂 ✨️
Nikki on
We love hand-me-downs. And a hand-me-down costume is perfect. It’s free, more eco-friendly (one of the best ways to be green is to simply not buy anything new!). The best part of a hand-me-down costume is the memories attached to it. My niece lives in Switzerland and as a baby wore an adorable St. Bernard costume. It was passed on to many of her friends and her little brother and about 7 years later my son got to wear it for his first 2 halloweens. Its become a sort of family heirloom 😁💕
Eva on
My husband and I always dress up as Pokémon Trainers, and we dressed up our baby as a Snorlax for her first Halloween. This year she chose Pikachu as her starter Pokémon, so she’ll dress up like Pikachu this year. The costumes for trainers are so easy! It’s pretty much bright colored exercise clothes and an Ash Katchum hat. We also buy Pokémon jammies rather than costumes so they’re more useful. 😁
Christina Brady on
I made matching mama and baby ghost costumes from an old torn duvet cover!
Erin on
We like to DIY our costumes as much as possible from items we already own. If that’s not possible we like to thrift or buy items that are reusable like play silks or pieces of clothing we’ll rewear.
Rachel Rosales on
Last year my son was a bat with the silk bat wings and thrifted black clothes. The year before that we spent the weekend shopping for thrifted clothes to be a pirate family. This year we’ll be using the silk princess hat silk for my daughter . My son wants to be a knight so maybe thr silk sword?
Bree Vanderwal on