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15 Books To Read Your Kids While You’re Stuck At Home

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Everyone is stuck at home with either shelter in place or stay at home orders right now. While it might seem like this time will never end, have hope and find ways to make the most of your time at home!

One way we are doing this is by reading more books! There are so many great kindle books, audiobooks, and other easily accessible books you can read to your kids without ever leaving the house! You can read these books to your kids for a fun storytime, or even help your kids read these books if they are more advanced readers.

A Wrinkle in Time
Little House on the Prairie
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Little Women
Bridge to Terabithia
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Charlotte’s Web
Madeline
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Coraline
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

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Christmas Ornament Cross Stitch Patterns

The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.

These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.

This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.

Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.

These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!

From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.