218 Elf Ideas for Kids - Page 12 of 15

Funny elf idea – the cardboard robot costume

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.

Build a little Christmas golf course from card, a paper cup and a soft pom-pom, then give your elf a homemade putter.

Your elf becomes the curator of a tiny museum, where a toast crumb, a button and a pine needle are suddenly priceless exhibits.

Set up a tiny pretend biscuit workshop with a gingerbread apron, mixing bowl and a suspiciously enthusiastic quality-control department.

A tiny cereal café opens for breakfast, with your elf serving a teddy customer and an easy homemade alternative to the miniature props.

The elf starts a red-and-green paper-chain factory with a teddy helper. An easy scene that becomes a small Christmas craft for the children.

Clean bottle tops become curling stones on a paper lane, with the elf holding a homemade broom and a teddy acting as referee.