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.
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
I help put on a toddler friendly/not scary Halloween event every year, and we focus on games, experiments and paper crafts- no candy! We do fun pencils and bracelets for prizes. At home I now have my own toddler! I can’t wait to have him dress up. Last year he was the energizer bunny and I was a dead battery. I used a hand me down bunny playsuit we already had and my costume was a sheet of reflective paper. This year he might be a digger or an animal, it’s hard to choose! We will definitely do second hand for any costumes. The best use of a silk for a costume I have seen was my friend’s baby was a hobbit when she was 13 months old. She had a green silk cape. It was amazing!
Nicole on
We always try to get costumes secondhand off marketplace, or use what we already have. This year she wants to be Elsa (her first foray into princesses after being a beautiful butterfly using her silk wings for two years!) and we have a couple Elsa options from marketplace, plus her blue silk crown and wand from here!
Stacy McCann on
My son wants to be a tree frog. I got him green pajamas and red gloves. I also got him a green hat and glued 2 1/2 foam balls on top that I painted into eyes. He uses his small basket for his treats.
Ashley on
I like to use solid color pajamas as the base for costumes because going into cooler weather my kids need new pajamas anyway! And then we add silks, hats, wands, or other accessories depending on what they want to be.
Rachel on
My 3 year old wants to be a “rainbow fruit bat cat” so we are using a rainbow dress she already has, a dark playsilk for the wings, and we’re using some felt and foam scraps to make the cat tail and ears!
Emily on
We love collecting acorns this time of year! They quickly become my son’s little treasures. And our Halloween costume plan is swapping with friends and reusing each others costumes from previous years!
Christine Williams on
As we sit listening to “zoom zoom zoom we’re going to the moon” my daughter’s birthday gift of the star silk sits in my closet until next week. I see astronaut play about to emerge! My kids especially love pretending to be grannies these days with the silks. The costumes are endless.
Kristina on
We have a little one really into the human body so we used black pants and a black T-shirt and sewed on some bones with white felt to make a skeleton!
Maggie on
We used the play silk to wrap the body in different “fashion”, dresses, shirts and hair covers! My daughter usually is the one who is leading in this process. I just helped make the silk tight on her body :)
Kayan Wan on
My daughter used the rainbow butterfly wings to be the butterfly at the end of the hungry caterpillar. She had a green silk around her middle.
Rebecca McD on
My kids have been collecting used coffee pods from our neighbor and old long-sleeve shirts. They both want to be an octopus. We are stuffing the fake arms with stuffing from some old throw pillows we planned to throw away
Erika Eck on
In the past we have re used boxes. One year a box was used to make a vending machine and another a Rubic cube. Two years ago was my favorite, my daughter dressed up as Cruella. The outfit was used using a black dress and leggings she could wear even after Halloween.
alyssa on