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 daughter is 6.5 years old and she hasn’t decided yet—a vampire queen or Jenny from the story The Green Ribbon!
Shannon on
My child is dressing as Peter Pan with the new costume we scored from your recent sale! I’ve wanted it forever!! It’s adorable!
Stephanie Neu on
My daughters are planning to dress up as a ladybug and a cat! It’s our first Halloween in the US and they are very excited!
Emily Russell on
My daughter would like to be a ghost for Halloween. We plan to either find a costume or make it ourselves!
Rachel on
My child has created her own persona to dress up as.
Brandy on
My baby girl is obsessed with ghosts this year. We usually like to have multiple costumes in rotation the week of Halloween so ghost will definitely be one of them. It would be cute to buy a large silk and cut it out like a ghost! But we’re also thinking about buying the butterfly wings and making a costume a bit more colorful and fun! We do have a crown, silks, and Dino ears—all of which make fantastic costumes year round!
We also have been harvesting acorns and pine cones in nature and I’m thinking we’re going to do natural trick or treating this year and nurturing the treats of nature. That and swapping collected trick or treats for an approved gift basket!
Maria Tzouvelekis on
We’re doing goldilocks and the 3 bears this year. My 4 year old will be goldilocks and my 1 year old will be baby bear, I’m crocheting her a little bear sweater and my husband and I will have crochet bear hoods to match.
Amy on
My daughter wants to be a fairy with a red dress, wings, and shoes. She wants me to be poop, so we’ll do how we can make that happen! 😂
Shaina Furnis-Lawrence on
My son wants to be a Godzilla and my daughter a little fairy!
Naya Panagiota Varouta on
My four year old is being a volcano! 🌋 I’m thinking of using a playsilk with LED lights as the lava. My one year old is boing a lion 🦁
Katie on
We love Halloween 🎃✨️ this year I have a 2 year old who pretends to be a vampire at least once daily (often by wrapping himself in a Sarah’s silk) so he is going to be a vampire bat – who can resist those bat ears 🦇 and an 11month old who is going to be a pumpkin 🎃🎃 because there is little chance that she’ll allow me to dress her as a pumpkin ever again 😂
Morgan on
Our daughter is going to be a pink princess, I got a Snow White costume, and she wants my husband to be a chocolate monster 🤣
Lane Stoltz on