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.

Funny elf idea – the tiny snack vending machine

A homemade cardboard snack machine charges one smile per treat, and your elf is testing the biscuit button very thoroughly.

Your elf takes a seat on a tiny festive throne, puts on a paper crown and announces a very generous biscuit policy.

Paper Easter eggs and rabbit ears appear beside the Christmas tree, and your elf has realised he is preparing for the wrong holiday.

An official dinosaur hoodie outfit turns your elf into a tiny fashion designer, choosing patterns for his next Christmas look.

Your elf sits in a paper nest with homemade wings and Christmas baubles, proudly claiming to have laid some very festive eggs.

Six ordinary objects on a tray become your elf’s Christmas memory challenge, ready for the children to cover and remember.

A cereal-box theatre and one sock puppet put on a tiny show, with your elf and a teddy holding the best seats in the house.

Your elf has built a tiny bridge from dry spaghetti, with a toy car waiting to see whether his pasta engineering will work.

Tiny paper boots appear beside a full-size pair of wellies, and your elf looks rather suspicious about the sudden shrinking mystery.

Your elf covers a cupboard with little kind messages, leaving one extra note for someone to find in the morning.

Your elf’s snowman has turned into a dry paper puddle, leaving a carrot nose, buttons and a Should have stayed outside note.

A homemade red postbox and tiny envelopes turn a hallway corner into your elf’s very busy North Pole post office.

Three cardboard posts and a few paper hoops become a miniature funfair game, with your elf trying to improve his score.

Three toy cars get tiny parking tickets after stopping in the elf’s reserved bays, with a rather unusual one-biscuit fine.

Your elf puts an old phone in a homemade cardboard jail, with a tiny verdict saying it has landed on the naughty list.