christmas elf 2010

Jammygal

I found him have requested him as friend!!!
Please befriend Snow ball Candycane on facebook .......he's lonely

littlenicsmummy

amy so glad, your dog has been found.
Went to pick up the stamp today from the sorting office, thought it came with ink but doesnt so does anyone know where i can get a ink pad big enough for it?

yummy-mummy-amy

littlenicsmummy wrote: »

amy so glad, your dog has been found.
Went to pick up the stamp today from the sorting office, thought it came with ink but doesnt so does anyone know where i can get a ink pad big enough for it?

was it from vistaprint? if so they are self nking when you press it down.

Jammygal

Thanks guys for befriending Snowball.......I guess its you guys anyway

berryjingles

Jammygal wrote: »

Thanks guys for befriending Snowball.......I guess its you guys anyway

Holly Berry and Buddy Jingles are now friends with Snow Ball

Glad you found your dog Yummy-Mummy-Amy

Hollie84

Hi everyone im a newbie to this thread i have just ordered my aurora xmas rag doll i totally forgot all about this till tonight,my eldest DD is 4 so will be so excited when she arrives at our house all the way from the north pole i think i will be naming her sally snowflake.

i text my other half who is at work to let him know and he was wondering if i was drunk lol charming im so excited to do this i just hope she arrives soon.ive yet to read through this whole thread

Jevvers

Hi evryone
I have been reading this thread for the past 2-3 weeks and I think it's fantastic! Thank you all for your fab ideas. Our son and daughter are almost 4 (ds) and 20mo (dd) and this will be the first year of having Christmas at our house rather than one of the grandparents so I am keen to start some of our own traditions.

I think ds in particular would love an elf this year but here's where I need your help - where on the highstreet can I find one? I work ft so I've got mon and tue lunchbreaks to get a suitable candidate!

There is a shopping centre opp work (terribly dangerous for Moneysaving!) so I've a bit of choice - ELC, Debenhams, m&s - but not much time so any pointers would be v gratefully received.

Thanks all and Amy I'm glad you found your dog safe and well.

knithappens

Jevvers wrote: »

Hi evryone
I have been reading this thread for the past 2-3 weeks and I think it's fantastic! Thank you all for your fab ideas. Our son and daughter are almost 4 (ds) and 20mo (dd) and this will be the first year of having Christmas at our house rather than one of the grandparents so I am keen to start some of our own traditions.

I think ds in particular would love an elf this year but here's where I need your help - where on the highstreet can I find one? I work ft so I've got mon and tue lunchbreaks to get a suitable candidate!

There is a shopping centre opp work (terribly dangerous for Moneysaving!) so I've a bit of choice - ELC, Debenhams, m&s - but not much time so any pointers would be v gratefully received.

Thanks all and Amy I'm glad you found your dog safe and well.

If you dont want to spend too much money, pond world and pound lany have hanging snow men santas etc for £1, just cut the loop off their head, they are a decent size too, I was looking at them as they are cute.

charlieann

yummy-mummy-amy wrote: »

***PASSPORTS*** - if anyone else wants a passport doing please let me know. i will only be able to edit them until 29th as need to then make sure eveything is ready and planned foe my elves.

did anyone have any ideas as to what i can put in elf in training note book???

Hey,
Could we have a passport if its not too much trouble,
Thanks

Nenen

Thank you Yummy-Mummy-Amy and everyone who has contributed to this thread. I stumbled across it and am now hooked! I teach a Year 3 class and was a bit worried they were rather cynical about Christmas and may be starting to doubt the existence of a certain jolly man in red. I needn't have worried as, when I explained to them last Friday that Santa had written to me asking if they could help train one of his elves, they were more excited than I have ever seen a group of children in school become! I was bombarded with questions and had to think on my feet with the speed of lightning. Thanks to you lovely people, many of the answers had already been provided for me on here.

There was a bit of panic when one of the children asked if the elf would be like one of the angels in Dr Who, which apparently pretended to be toys and then come alive with laser beams in their eyes to kill people! I explained that Santa would never send us anyone like that, he only has loveable, kind elf friends who help him make toys and the elves are only cheeky and mischievous not wicked!

I explained that we would have to get the classroom ready and write a letter to Santa to say we would like to help and I have never seen a group of children so keen not only to write a letter but to do it in their very best handwriting. I had to chuckle when one little boy (who finds writing very laborious and usually does the bare minimum) wrote a long letter which ended with, "Please could you send us the most naughtiest, most cheekiest and most mischieviest elf you have please Santa?" I think he is hoping such a naughty elf will make him look like an angel in comparison! :rotfl:

I have had a lovely weekend getting my elf ready - much nicer than the usual paperwork I spend time on. My teaching assistant is also in her element and we plan to spend Tuesday evening after school transforming the classroom into a winter wonderland for our elf.

We've named our elf Fizzy Tumbleflump Merrycracker. The Tumbleflump and Merrycracker came from an online elf name generator but the Fizzy was the name I came up with as the children were fizzing with excitement!
Thanks again.:beer:

PS If there are any other teachers out there with elves coming perhaps we could swap ideas for educational activities. So far I plan to do the following:

1) Maths- Make six pointed snowflakes (both on computer and traditional paper/scissors method) to decorate the classroom to teach line and rotational symmetry
2) Maths- Use elf ages to teach addition and subtraction of Hundreds, tens and units (I've told the class elves live to be over a thousand and have to be 135 years old before they can go out on training missions)
3) Lots of Literacy activities including, writing reports to Santa on our elf, keeping a journal of what the elf has done (recounts), leaving letters for the elf, using non-fiction books to find out about snow, reading the elf's reports to Santa and letters to us, writing elf stories.
4) Science - we are studying 'Materials' so will do experiments to find the best material to keep an elf warm/cold/dry and/or experiements to find the most absorbent materials for clearning up puddles left by melting snow.
5) D&T we are making picture frames which will hold a picture of our elf and will make Christmas cards which involve an elf moving.
6) PHSCE - empathising/thinking of others - Santa has to think of what each individual child wants/needs in his/her stocking so will get the children to imagine they could give a stocking full of presents to someone they know. I will provide stocking templates for children to make a red stocking with white 'fur' on toes, heels and top. Then children draw, write and/or cut out pictures from magazines of things they would put in a stocking for their person and stick these on the stocking. They look lovely hung up in the classroom.
7) Art - observational drawing of our elf getting up to one of his tricks!

Obviously, teachers can only have an elf to stay if every child in the class celebrates Christmas and gets gifts from Santa (which they often do even if they are not Christians). Fortunately, all my class celebrate Christmas so I'm thrilled!