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

maisiescamp

My Elf came in the post today, he is sooo cute! Can't wait till 1st Dec when he arrives properly!

party_of_five

Finally found myself an elf so I can join in with this - so excited and reckon it's the last year I can get away with it before my son just questions my sanity. Been looking everywhere and finally found him in Haskins (garden centre near Crawley). I am pleased to introduce to you to Perkin Snodgrass - the below will be his Facebook picture when I set him up. Actually I might question my own sanity later when I have time...

tq16

party_of_five wrote: »

Finally found myself an elf so I can join in with this - so excited and reckon it's the last year I can get away with it before my son just questions my sanity. Been looking everywhere and finally found him in Haskins (garden centre near Crawley). I am pleased to introduce to you to Perkin Snodgrass - the below will be his Facebook picture when I set him up. Actually I might question my own sanity later when I have time...

he is gorgeous- can't wait for 1st Dec, The girls have already been asking if Batty and Sparky will be back this year- and wanting to write to santa to ask :j

chopsticks

I found this thread last year, but my DD was only 5 months old at the beginning of December, so was too young.

She'll be 17 months old this year and would really like to do it, but do you think she'll be too young?

I think she'll like the elf itself and will cuddle it lots (and appreciate the chocolate ) but I'm wondering if she's too little to appreciate the whole thing and maybe it would be better to wait until next year.

What do you think?

sammiller1981

chopsticks wrote: »

I found this thread last year, but my DD was only 5 months old at the beginning of December, so was too young.

She'll be 17 months old this year and would really like to do it, but do you think she'll be too young?

I think she'll like the elf itself and will cuddle it lots (and appreciate the chocolate ) but I'm wondering if she's too little to appreciate the whole thing and maybe it would be better to wait until next year.

What do you think?

The nice thing is there are no rules :rotfl:so why not give it a try and see ahow it goes, you could always do the simple things this year and wait till next year to start the mischievous side of your elf. For example im sure she will enjoy the elf coming to visit, putting him to bed,leaving her chocolates and im sure there are lots of other ideas. Then next year your elf could have snowball fights and teddy picnics.

I love this idea and wish id known about it sooner, my kids are now 3 and 9 and i will definatly be doing it this year. Hubby is really excited about it. LOL:j

maisiescamp

party_of_five wrote: »

Finally found myself an elf so I can join in with this - so excited and reckon it's the last year I can get away with it before my son just questions my sanity. Been looking everywhere and finally found him in Haskins (garden centre near Crawley). I am pleased to introduce to you to Perkin Snodgrass - the below will be his Facebook picture when I set him up. Actually I might question my own sanity later when I have time...

What a lovely little elf! Well done on such a good find, elves seem to be quite hard to find, especially good ones:j

Qaphsiel

Cannot wait for the Christmas Elf to arrive again on 1st Dec. Good fun :T

princess85

so excited to do this again.:j found this thread late last year santas little helper arrived the middle of dec and my DS loved it.he remembers him coming to stay and has been asking if santas helper is coming again,hes 5 now. didnt manage to get an elf last year so ours was a little dog with a stocking saying "santas little helper" and wearing a christmas hat he was lovely but would much perfer an elf now hes older and the same one can come back each year.
do the rest of you whos done it before use the same elf each year?
off to hunt for an elf :cool: :rotfl:

RustyFlange

princess85 wrote: »

so excited to do this again.:j found this thread late last year santas little helper arrived the middle of dec and my DS loved it.he remembers him coming to stay and has been asking if santas helper is coming again,hes 5 now. didnt manage to get an elf last year so ours was a little dog with a stocking saying "santas little helper" and wearing a christmas hat he was lovely but would much perfer an elf now hes older and the same one can come back each year.
do the rest of you whos done it before use the same elf each year?
off to hunt for an elf :cool: :rotfl:

I am using the same elf this year, but I also have 2 mini elves on order from the lovely GreenPixey off here and she is also making me a bigger elf, these other elves will all arrive at different times, the smaller 2 will probably arrive later on as both children know they are not allowed to take elves to bed, but my DD who was 2 last year gave her Dummies to the elf, and in return he had cuddles in her bed on christmas eve (she went without christmas eve bless her) so my thoughts were that the 2 smaller elves could be ones for them to keep once Jolly Sugar Socks has gone home!

maisiescamp

princess85 wrote: »

so excited to do this again.:j found this thread late last year santas little helper arrived the middle of dec and my DS loved it.he remembers him coming to stay and has been asking if santas helper is coming again,hes 5 now. didnt manage to get an elf last year so ours was a little dog with a stocking saying "santas little helper" and wearing a christmas hat he was lovely but would much perfer an elf now hes older and the same one can come back each year.
do the rest of you whos done it before use the same elf each year?
off to hunt for an elf :cool: :rotfl:

I would get a different elf if I wasn't happy with the original elf, after all Santas has lots of different helpers!

Found this one on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Rag-Doll-Boy-Aurora-14-Xmas-ELF-Christmas-NEW-soft-toy-/130441572102?pt=UK_Soft_Toys_Bears&hash=item1e5eec6f06

Or this one for something a little different http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ty-Beanie-Kids-Noelle-Mint-tags-1994-/260677669877?pt=UK_Soft_Toys_Bears&hash=item3cb19993f5

HTH