Christmas Elf Ideas

A little homemade board, two button counters and a toy opponent give your elf a snakes-and-ladders match of his own.

Your elf opens a little jewellery workshop with a foil-covered cardboard star, a button bracelet and an empty gift box.

Your elf makes a dry cardboard wishing well with a miniature bucket, paper coins and little wishes for the children to add.

Your elf has a tiny visitor to look after: an official Frost Pip baby in its frost flower, with a homemade nursery corner.

Your elf challenges a teddy to table tennis on a homemade cardboard table, with paper paddles and a tiny scrunched-paper ball.

A cardboard telescope and a little paper star chart turn the windowsill into your elf’s North Pole observatory.

Your elf has started a tiny Christmas snow-globe craft, with a coloured tree and a spare insert ready for the children.

Your elf has made a little abacus from a cardboard frame, cotton string and cereal hoops, ready for a morning counting game.

A cardboard half-tube on a few books makes a little marble run for your elf, with a shallow lid ready to catch each rolling marble.