218 Elf Ideas for Kids - Page 7 of 15

Easy elf idea – the three-cup guessing game

Three cups and a hidden pom-pom give your elf a quick guessing game for the children to try in the morning.

Your elf has left circles, squares and triangles to sort onto labelled plates, making a simple Christmas morning game.

Your elf has assembled a small plastic-bag parachute with a wooden clothespeg as its cargo, ready for a morning test flight.

Your elf has opened a tiny wind department with a homemade accordion-fold paper fan and light tissue scraps to move.

Your elf has started a fragrant Christmas craft with fresh oranges, whole cloves and a little red ribbon.

Your elf has taken a sleigh break beside a compact tabletop pool game, with a cue and a few balls ready for the family.

Your elf has started a North Pole rhythm club using two homemade shakers made from empty yoghurt pots.

Your elf and a toy rabbit have set up a homemade cup-and-string telephone, ready for a morning call to the North Pole.

Teddy wants to drive Santa’s sleigh, but your elf has set up a very strict homemade height check.

Your elf has left a tiny three-word puzzle using ELF, HAT and TOY, with a pencil ready for the children.

Your elf has turned a couple of pine cones into tiny hedgehogs with modelling-clay faces and left another one for the children to finish.

Your elf has left a red balloon, a woolly scarf and tiny paper stars for a simple static-electricity experiment in the morning.

Your elf has a tiny homemade ELF NEWS newspaper, with a reindeer doodle and a Fresh from the North Pole note.

Your elf and a teddy have a homemade cardboard seesaw, with the elf’s end resting down and a cheeky biscuit note beside it.

Your elf has made a Christmas card with a folded green paper tree that stands up from the middle when the card opens.