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Funny Elf Ideas

Funny elf idea – cooking snowballs at elf cooking school

Tom’s elf beside a miniature red toy frying pan containing cotton-wool snowballs, with a red lid, blue utensil and homemade cardboard hob.

Your elf has put cotton-wool snowballs into a toy frying pan and is wondering why his pretend dinner won’t melt.

Funny elf idea – teddy’s sleigh-driver height check

Tom’s elf sitting beside a teddy and a homemade paper height strip, with a Too small for the sleigh note and a ruler on the floor.

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

Funny elf idea – caught in the yarn spiderweb

Tom’s elf sitting on a wooden chair behind a white yarn spiderweb, beside a homemade black paper spider and a Wrong shortcut note.

Your elf has taken a bad shortcut and ended up behind a homemade yarn web, with a friendly paper spider keeping watch.

Funny elf idea – the potato elf decoy

A potato wearing a red paper hat in a little shoebox bed, with Tom’s real elf peeking from beside a basket.

A potato in a tiny paper hat is pretending to be your elf, while the real elf peeks out from a nearby basket.

Funny elf idea – the homemade toy seesaw

Tom’s elf and a small teddy sitting on opposite ends of a blue cardboard seesaw supported by a horizontal cardboard tube.

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

Funny elf idea – the fish and chips mix-up

Tom’s elf beside a plate of potato crisps and a flat blue paper fish, with a Fish and chips note.

Your elf has taken fish and chips rather literally: a paper fish is waiting on a plate beside a few potato crisps.

Funny elf idea – the teddy tug-of-war match

Tom’s elf and a small brown teddy seated opposite each other with a cotton cord between them, a blue paper centre line and a No pulling faces note.

Your elf and a teddy are having a tiny tug-of-war match on the rug, with a paper centre line and a No pulling faces note.

Funny elf idea – the snack o’clock clock

Tom’s elf beside a pale blue cardboard clock with four biscuit doodles, two black paper hands and a Snack o’clock note.

Your elf has invented a cardboard clock with biscuit pictures instead of numbers, so it is always snack o’clock.

Funny elf idea – the pretend candyfloss cart

Tom’s elf behind a homemade cardboard candyfloss cart with a striped awning, three pink pretend candyfloss cones and a Pretend treats only note.

Your elf has a little cardboard candyfloss cart, with fluffy pretend treats on paper cones and a striped homemade awning.

Funny elf idea – the floor is lava game

Tom’s elf reclining on a closed book among other book islands and red and orange paper flames, beside a Floor is lava sign.

Your elf has turned a few closed books into stepping-stone islands, with homemade paper flames for a tiny floor is lava game.

Funny elf idea – the knight guarding the last biscuit

Tom’s elf with a paper shield beside a cardboard castle, a biscuit on a saucer and a green toy dinosaur with paper dragon wings.

Your elf is a cardboard knight guarding the last biscuit from a toy dinosaur dressed as a little paper-winged dragon.

Funny elf idea – the pet rock adoption desk

Tom’s elf at a pet rock adoption desk with two pebbles wearing paper faces, Pip and Pebble labels and an Adopt a rock sign.

Your elf has two very quiet pets looking for a home: ordinary pebbles with little paper faces and homemade name cards.

Funny elf idea – the Christmas tree star audition

Tom’s elf seated in front of a homemade gold-card star beside a Can I be the star note, with a Christmas tree in the background.

Your elf is applying to be the Christmas tree star, with a homemade gold-card backdrop and a hopeful little note.

Funny elf idea – a birthday party for Teddy

Tom’s elf celebrating a teddy bear’s birthday with a blue paper party hat, a pink play-dough cake and a paper candle.

Your elf has decided it is Teddy’s birthday, complete with a paper hat, a pretend cake and a tiny homemade party.

Funny elf idea – the colander turtle disguise

Tom’s elf lying on his front with a small inverted metal colander resting over his back as a turtle shell and a Slow and steady note.

Your elf borrows a small colander for a turtle shell and leaves a Slow and steady note beside his kitchen disguise.

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