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House Cross Stitch Patterns

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Sometimes I come across a pattern I want to share and it causes me to look for other, similar patterns so that I can have a theme instead of sharing a single pattern with you.

That was the case with this pattern of a row of colorful houses (which is a free pattern from JP Crochet). It is super cute and could be a post of its own, talking about how it reminds me of beach houses and it would be fun to change up the colors to match houses in your neighborhood or just your decor. As written it uses nine colors and is 111 stitches square, or 20 cm/7.8 inches square when stitched on 14 count fabric.

If you like the look of beach house cross stitch patterns, I have another set of summer beach houses for you to look at.

I like the idea of houses all jumbled together, but they don’t necessarily have to be beach houses. For example the village houses from TAM Stitch Designs on Etsy. These rows of houses surrounded by trees and flowers are definitely not near the ocean, but they’re still really pretty (and a great way to use a lot of colors!). The piece is full coverage, 200 by 200 stitches, and uses 15 colors. As shown on 14 count fabric it comes out to about 14.25 inches/36.3 cm square.

And while these are not shown as stitched in a single frame, I also love the four season houses from Cute Patterns by Maria. These traditional homes sit in the different seasons but they would be cute grouped together in individual frames, or just hang each one during its particular season if you’d rather. These vary a little in size and use a ton of colors (between 14 and 33, depending on the project) but I think it would be a lot of fun to stitch all four.

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Sun Activities for Kids

With summer coming soon in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s a fun time to incorporate activities and crafts with a sunny theme. Take some time to learn about the sun (this post from National Geographic Kids is a good one) and then do some sun activities.

Sun prints are a classic summer activity, and there are lots of ways to do them, from placing objects on construction paper (like in this craft from MomBrite) or by using sun print paper (aka cyanotype paper).

Practice threading, counting, color sorting and other skills with this easy sun threading activity from Taming Little Monsters.

Lessons 4 Little Ones has a great blog post full of ideas for science experiments using the sun, such as melting crayons, looking at shadows, making a sun dial and trying a solar oven. Printables to go with the lessons are available for purchase or you can just talk through the students’ hypotheses about what will happen and draw or otherwise record the results.

This updraft tower from Almost Unschoolers is a cool way to illustrate that the heat of the sun causes an updraft, which makes the pinwheel spin. This is a good one to do inside near a sunny window so you don’t have wind spinning the pinwheel instead.

You’ll want to get out in the sun to try this experiment form Life with Moore Babies to see what kinds of things the sun can melt. Using different kinds of sweets you can see how the sun melts things by itself and how you can concentrate the power of the sun with a magnifying glass.

Playing with shadows is fun for kids of all ages, and you can track a shadow through the day with this experiment from Science Sparks. If you’re working with multiple kids they can each choose an object to shadow (ha!) and at the end of the day you can see how different their shadows looked. 

And of course you’ll want to make a sun themed suncatcher craft, right? This one from Fox Farm Home uses all the pretty flowers you collect on your nature walk and puts them in a sun-shaped frame.