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Printable Art Therapy Meditation Coloring Book

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This art therapy coloring book is free for you to print out on your home printers. With 11 pages to color in this book it is perfect for meditation to help clear your mind.

This printable can be used for any age, from children to teenagers to adults. I don’t know about you but meditation is something my body and mind craves right now.

It is hard to get motivated to sit in a quiet spot (if I can find one in my house) to listen to a meditation tape or CD but being able to sit and color is a great “busy” activity. The trick to being able to meditate and enjoy the joy of colouring is to make sure everyone else is also occupied.

Print some extra sheets off and give them to the kids. Pour yourself a hot chamomile tea or chilled tea, light some candles, grab some coloring pencils and start coloring. I found silence made my children talk or hum so after a few sessions we decided to play some elevator-style music. This one is my favorite.

You can grab the printable here.

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Pumpkin Cross Stitch Patterns

I feel the urge to rush fall along this year and kind of want to head right into spooky season (thus the posts about haunted houses and ghosts!) but I know we should also take a moment to give fall its due. And I do love fall, which is why I shared some fall leaf cross stitch patterns, too.

I thought one way to celebrate fall without getting too Halloween would be to look for some pumpkin cross stitch patterns that aren’t jack o’lanterns. These can be used to decorate all the way through Thanksgiving, and some of the little ones you could even stitch on cloth napkins for your holiday table, like the mini pumpkin pattern from Craft with Cartwright. 

This one is just 39 by 36 stitches, or less than 3 inches around, and it uses three colors.

The individual pumpkins in this pumpkin sampler could be stitched individually on smaller projects if you wanted. It’s from Cross with Me on Etsy and features plain pumpkins in different colors and plaid pumpkins. As shown it measures 7.5 by 7.36 inches and is 105 by 103 stitches. It uses five colors.

One cool thing about cross stitch is that you can use designs made for other crafts to make cross stitch projects. For example, beading charts also use squares and you can stitch the same pattern just fine. This pumpkin stack from Bracelet Book includes the word Boo but you could just stitch those areas in the same color as the pumpkin if you want to keep it plain.

Demented Stitchers on Etsy has a pretty pumpkin cross stitch pattern that looks like it was stenciled. This is a great one for beginners to try as it’s only 71 by 76 stitches, or about 4.4 by 4.7 inches on 14 count fabric, and it uses three colors.

For a bit of a fancier look, try this scroll pumpkin pattern from Annie’s. It’s rated easy and it looks like it uses about five colors.