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

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

Stitching Housewives offers a ton of cute, sort of country feeling cross stitch patterns with different themes I don’t quite understand but they’re super cute so let’s get into it.

One section is called Dapper Doodads, which it looks like are all square. Tiered Tray Tidbits are generally more rectangular, and RoundAbouts are circular. There are also Sassy Strippers, and I don’t know what the difference among all the different kinds is. All of them are colorful, graphic, often with text, and mounted on something cute. A lot of them are seasonal designs.

Just as an example, here’s Charlie Chicken, a big black chicken hauling an even bigger pumpkin in a wagon past a house with sunflowers. This one is labelled as a Tiered Tray Tidbit, but again I don’t really know why.

This one uses seven colors and is 56 by 42 stitches. It comes out to 4 by 3 inches or 10 by 7.6 cm when stitched on 28 count linen (equivalent to 14 count Aida). It’s shown mounted on a wooden pumpkin, but you could put it in a frame or make it little pillow or whatever you like.

There are lots of smaller categories with some themed projects, such as “calendar crates,” which are themed for the month but don’t actually have the month on them. There’s a lot of Christmas patterns, and smaller collections of Halloween/fall and spring projects.

Another section is called “What’s in My Cup,” which features a tall coffee cup with text on it and decorations in and around the cup. For example there’s a happy birthday cup with a cake coming out of the top and surrounded by presents and balloons. The Good Old Days collection includes monthly minis with the month on one piece, a house decorated for the season and another little seasonal design.

The seasonal series includes literal seasons as well as Halloween and Christmas designs.

It’s hard to tell you what’s here but if you like the style of this one or combinations of text and fun images, check out all the goodies at Stitching Housewives.

[Photo: Stitching Housewives]

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