218 Elf Ideas for Kids - Page 11 of 15

Funny elf idea – the Christmas bauble chicken

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.

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.

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.