All elf ideas

Browse funny, naughty and easy Christmas elf setups. Find a quick scene for tonight, a special arrival or an idea using props you already have.

Easy elf idea – orange-and-clove Christmas pomanders

Your elf has started a fragrant Christmas craft with fresh oranges, whole cloves and a little red ribbon.

Your elf has brought home an empty clear bag labelled North Pole air and is proudly offering it as a free sample.

Your elf has put a tiny You’re a star message inside a series of smaller boxes, with a Keep going note beside the biggest one.

Your elf has taken a sleigh break beside a compact tabletop pool game, with a cue and a few balls ready for the family.

Your elf has put cotton-wool snowballs into a toy frying pan and is wondering why his pretend dinner won’t melt.

Your elf has started a North Pole rhythm club using two homemade shakers made from empty yoghurt pots.

Your elf and a toy rabbit have set up a homemade cup-and-string telephone, ready for a morning call to the North Pole.

Teddy wants to drive Santa’s sleigh, but your elf has set up a very strict homemade height check.

Your elf has left a tiny three-word puzzle using ELF, HAT and TOY, with a pencil ready for the children.

Your elf has turned a couple of pine cones into tiny hedgehogs with modelling-clay faces and left another one for the children to finish.

Your elf has taken a bad shortcut and ended up behind a homemade yarn web, with a friendly paper spider keeping watch.

A potato in a tiny paper hat is pretending to be your elf, while the real elf peeks out from a nearby basket.

Your elf has left a red balloon, a woolly scarf and tiny paper stars for a simple static-electricity experiment in the morning.

Your elf has a tiny homemade ELF NEWS newspaper, with a reindeer doodle and a Fresh from the North Pole note.

Your elf and a teddy have a homemade cardboard seesaw, with the elf’s end resting down and a cheeky biscuit note beside it.