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Elf Ideas for Kids

Funny elf idea – the Christmas bauble chicken

Tom’s elf with white paper wings seated in a wicker nest beside three Christmas baubles and an I laid Christmas eggs note.

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

Easy elf idea – the Christmas memory tray

Tom’s elf beside a memory tray containing a bauble, teaspoon, toy car, clothes peg, crayon and pinecone with a Remember all six note.

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

Easy elf idea – the sock-puppet theatre

Tom’s elf and a toy bear watching a grey sock puppet in a homemade cardboard theatre with red paper curtains.

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.

Easy elf idea – the spaghetti bridge

Tom’s elf beside a small dry spaghetti bridge spanning two low books on a tray, with a toy car waiting before it.

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

Easy elf idea – the kindness-note cupboard

Tom’s elf holding a For you note beneath a cupboard decorated with six colourful handwritten kindness notes.

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

Funny elf idea – the paper snowman puddle

Tom’s elf beside a flat white paper snowman puddle with black paper buttons, orange paper carrot nose, twig arms and a top hat.

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

Easy elf idea – the North Pole post office

Tom’s elf beside a homemade red North Pole postbox on a hallway mat, posting a tiny envelope with more letters nearby.

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

Easy elf idea – the paper-ring funfair

Tom’s elf holding a yellow paper ring beside a homemade hoopla game with three cardboard posts and red and green rings.

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

Naughty elf idea – the toy-car parking tickets

Tom’s elf checking three toy cars with paper parking tickets on a homemade parking mat beside an Elf parking only sign.

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

Easy elf idea – the cereal dinosaur dig

Tom’s elf holding a small paintbrush beside a tray of dry bran cereal with a grey toy stegosaurus partly buried in it.

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

Easy elf idea – the rainbow water laboratory

Tom’s elf at a tray with red, yellow and blue coloured water in clear cups, an empty mixing cup and a Rainbow lab sign.

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

Easy elf idea – the indoor sled slope

Tom’s elf seated in a shallow red sled with a red-and-white scarf on a low white cardboard slope beside a One more go note.

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

Easy elf idea – the tiny table-football match

Tom’s elf and a teddy beside a homemade green paper football pitch with two cardboard goals and an Elves 1 Teddies 0 scorecard.

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

Funny elf idea – the fridge-door polar holiday

Tom’s elf seated on a clean tray inside an open refrigerator with a paper penguin and a Wish you were chilly postcard.

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

Funny elf idea – the Christmas cup-stacking challenge

Tom’s elf beside a pyramid of ten red and green upside-down cups, a spare yellow cup and a Personal best 10 scorecard.

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.

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