Christmas elf activities.........

3_cheeky_princesses

Hello all

Last Christmas after reading on here about Christmas tradition of elf's coming to stay with families until Christmas eve we had a lovely Elf called Otis Sugar-Socks who came to stay and my children adored him being here even my 11 yr old son!

We are hoping Otis will arrive again this year but wondered what other activities naughty, funny or playful your Christmas Elf got upto last year with your families.

I thought we could share ideas and get inspiration for this year.

Our Elf got upto lots inc:

Eating choccies and leaving the wrappers on the floor

Leaving various crafts things for the children to do each evening after school to get them in the Xmas mood

A treasure hunt on Christmas eve

Hiding things for us to find

Taking photos of himself at night with our children when they were asleep

UPDATED!
This is a list of activities "Otis our elf" will give to my children after school to get them in the christmas mood!

Make Snowman Sock (similar to the Monkey socks)

Colour in Christmas Pictures (free printout froms the net)

Write their Christmas cards for school friends, family and other friends

Write a letter to Santa

My girls will decorate a plain canvas bag with fabric crayons whilst my son will have a wooden pencil box to decorate

Treasure Hunt (this will be a weekend activity or Xmas eve )

Xmas fim Evening (again a good weekend one

Board games evening (another weekend activity)

Bake Christmas cookies

Make & decorate salt dough decorations

Potato print painting (ideal for younger children)

Charity day ( sort out all their old and unused toys and take to the charity shop this will def take us ages and be a weekend activity!)

Make Christmas hand puppets

Decorate candle glass holders with glass paint as pressie for Teachers with candle in

Colour in Xmas suncatcher windchimes

Make paper chains for decorating tress and their rooms

Make Christmas door hangers

Make Cross stitch book marks

Make crimbo style wooden bracelts (beads and elastic)

Colour and decorate wooden biff bats with balls

Scrapbooking (stickers and gluing piccies)

Mischeivious & playful things our Elf will get upto when the children are at school or asleep for them to "find" him doing!:

Decorate their bedrooms with lots of snow flakes hung from ceilings

Take a photo of us with Otis all when we are asleep

He will be found "fishing" in our fish tank (drinking straw and bit of string )

Snowball fights with my childrens teddys or dolls (cotton wool balls)

Hide various things

Hide himself

Be naughty and eat choccies!

Be found watching Xmas films!

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Savage_Flower

What a fab idea!

We have elves that put up the tree and decorations at night when everyone is asleep. The kids watch as other trees go up slowly down the street and wonder every evening whether they will be visiting our house that night.

How do you get them in the photos? Do you have a toy elf or are you great at photoshop.

Might steal your idea this year, my kids would love it!
Thanks

3_cheeky_princesses

Savage_Flower wrote: »

What a fab idea!

We have elves that put up the tree and decorations at night when everyone is asleep. The kids watch as other trees go up slowly down the street and wonder every evening whether they will be visiting our house that night.

How do you get them in the photos? Do you have a toy elf or are you great at photoshop.

Might steal your idea this year, my kids would love it!
Thanks

We have Otis a pic is below. He is a good size and very cuddly. He comes on the 1st December with a letter from santa and then goes home with Santa on Christmas Eve.



He reports back to santa who is being good and gets up to all kind of mischief and fun whilst he is here! lol

The original thread is here with all info and ideas. It is a fantastic thing to do and our whole family inc myself and my husband really enjoyed it:


http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1111705&highlight=otis

3_cheeky_princesses

Another thing i have found that may be great for a Elf to organise for the kids to do after school is sock monkeys but snowmen ones Full credit to MSE'r StarDrops42 for this one. :j Take a look at this thread where Stardrops 42 has made some stunning ones and a description further down the page on how to make them. they are easy for children to do.

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=25072387#post25072387

chr11st11ne

I'm going to do the elf for my dds (age 6 and 8) this year. I explained it to them and dd age 8 freaked :eek: - not the reaction I was hoping for lol. She even slept with her bedroom light on that night.
I found this little Christmas elf on ebay tonight and it might solve the problem as it is so cute. I just thought I'd share incase anyone has a similar problem.
The seller had about 3 left and said they arn't getting anymore in.
I can't post a link but if you search for a christmas yoohoo you should find it.

onetomany

i carnt find a elf anywhere please help x

3_cheeky_princesses

onetomany wrote: »

i carnt find a elf anywhere please help x

I brought mine (above in photo) from Ebay from America last year. The shipping wasnt much and it was her within a few days.

cathys1_2

We got "snow toes" from Clinton cards

he's one of the grey teddies

esmf73

I have enough mischief in my house all year round without the addition of more at Christmas!!! But I'll be doing Christmas Elves - I'm going to make them from Charity shop buys - HOPEFULLY. If I do it then the Elf will be a helpful elf and make sure that everyone does something nice each day!

Might make my grey hairs slightly fewer in number!

3_cheeky_princesses

This is a list of activities "Otis our elf" will give to my children after school to get them in the christmas mood!

Make Snowman Sock (similar to the Monkey socks)

Colour in Christmas Pictures (free printout froms the net)

Write their Christmas cards for school friends, family and other friends

Write a letter to Santa

My girls will decorate a plain canvas bag with fabric crayons whilst my son will have a wooden pencil box to decorate

Treasure Hunt (this will be a weekend activity or Xmas eve )

Xmas fim Evening (again a good weekend one

Board games evening (another weekend activity)

Bake Christmas cookies

Make & decorate salt dough decorations

Potato print painting (ideal for younger children)

Charity day ( sort out all their old and unused toys and take to the charity shop this will def take us ages and be a weekend activity!)

Make Christmas hand puppets

Decorate candle glass holders with glass paint as pressie for Teachers with candle in

Colour in Xmas suncatcher windchimes

Make paper chains for decorating tress and their rooms

Make Christmas door hangers

Make Cross stitch book marks

Make crimbo style wooden bracelts (beads and elastic)

Colour and decorate wooden biff bats with balls

Scrapbooking (stickers and gluing piccies)

Mischeivious & playful things our Elf will get upto when the children are at school or asleep for them to "find" him doing!:

Decorate their bedrooms with lots of snow flakes hung from ceilings

Take a photo of us with Otis all when we are asleep

He will be found "fishing" in our fish tank (drinking straw and bit of string )

Snowball fights with my childrens teddys or dolls (cotton wool balls)

Hide various things

Hide himself

Be naughty and eat choccies!

Be found watching Xmas films!

safesound

If you don't mind ordering from the States (as we still have plenty of time left for it to arrive) then give these a go, they are the most gorgeous little elves I've ever seen.
http://all-plush.amazonwebstore.com/Plush-Santas-Secret-Elf-Boy-Hand/M/B000ZA1W3Y.htm