61 Last-Minute Elf Ideas - Page 2 of 5

Easy elf idea – guess the Christmas carol

Two homemade picture cards give your elf a Christmas-song guessing game, with bells and a decorated tree as the clues.

Your elf has opened a lost-sock desk, reunited two pairs and needs help finding the partner for one lonely blue sock.

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

Your elf has brought home an empty clear bag labelled North Pole air and is proudly offering it as a free sample.

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

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

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

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

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

Your elf leaves a folded paper fortune teller with small Christmas activities hidden under the flaps, ready for a morning game.

Your elf has replaced a few decorations with clean odd socks and seems very pleased with his new Christmas tree look.

Your elf has “tidied” the pantry by giving rice, pasta and oats some very questionable Christmas nicknames.

A jar of strawberry jam blocks a little road of toy cars, and your elf is left trying to deal with the Christmas traffic jam.