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 – the cereal dinosaur dig

A tray of dry cereal becomes a pretend dinosaur excavation, with a partly buried toy and your elf brushing away the discovery site.

Your elf sets up a tiny colour laboratory with three cups of coloured water, an empty mixing cup and a homemade Rainbow lab sign.

A low cardboard ramp becomes an indoor sled slope, with your elf wrapped in a striped scarf and asking for one more go.

A paper football pitch on a tray becomes an elf-versus-teddy match, with cardboard goals and a soft little ball.

Your elf takes a very short polar holiday on a clean fridge tray, with a paper penguin and a Wish you were chilly postcard.

A pyramid of little cups becomes your elf’s latest challenge, with a personal-best scorecard and one cup that didn’t quite make it.

A little foil-covered box becomes your elf’s robot costume, complete with paper buttons and a very particular request for biscuits.

Your elf opens a tiny snowflake school, with folded paper, a teddy pupil and a handful of homemade cut-paper decorations.

An almost-finished jigsaw is missing one piece, and your elf is sitting nearby with a rather suspicious Looking for this note.

Your elf goes camping indoors under a tea-towel tent, with a teddy companion and a little pretend paper campfire.

A Christmas inflatable plane sits on a homemade runway, with your elf taking flying lessons and teddy handling the take-off clearance.

Your elf invents a tiny pretend snowball launcher, but his first cotton-wool test has completely missed the cardboard target.

An empty egg box becomes a pirate treasure chest, with a homemade map, shiny buttons and your elf celebrating his discovery.

Your elf presents a very promising weather forecast: a 99% chance of biscuits, with a handmade weather board and paper umbrella.

A few lightweight board books become giant dominoes, with your elf waiting beside the first one and a teddy watching the finish.