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Unique Elf Ideas

Funny elf idea – the tabletop pool game

Tom’s elf beside a green-cloth wooden tabletop pool table with a cue, a white cue ball, three coloured balls and a Sleigh break note.

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

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.

Easy elf idea – the homemade Christmas shakers

Tom’s elf on a rug beside two sealed yoghurt-pot shakers decorated with red and green paper sleeves and white stars.

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

Easy elf idea – the paper-cup North Pole telephone

Tom’s elf and a plush rabbit beside two white paper cups connected through their bases by a cotton string, with a Hello North Pole note.

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

Easy elf idea – the pine-cone hedgehog workshop

Tom’s elf beside two handmade pine-cone hedgehogs with cream modelling-clay faces, on a wooden tray with green felt leaves.

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.

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.

Easy elf idea – the balloon and jumping paper stars

Tom’s elf beside a red balloon resting in a white bowl, a woolly scarf and a tray of tiny tissue-paper stars.

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

Easy elf idea – the tiny ELF NEWS newspaper

Tom’s elf holding a small homemade ELF NEWS paper on his lap, with another folded paper, a pencil and a North Pole note.

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

Easy elf idea – the pop-up Christmas tree card

Tom’s elf beside an open white Christmas card with a folded green pop-up tree, red paper ornaments and a gold star.

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

Easy elf idea – the teddy awards ceremony

Tom’s elf beside a bear and a bunny wearing homemade gold paper rosettes, with a Teddy Awards sign and a small envelope.

Your elf is giving two cuddly toys homemade paper awards for Best cuddles and Best listener, with a tiny ceremony on the bench.

Easy elf idea – the mini Jenga challenge

Tom’s elf beside loose pale wooden mini Jenga blocks, with a Your turn note and a small teddy watching.

Your elf has brought mini Jenga blocks and left a Your turn note, ready for the children to build a small tower and play.

Easy elf idea – the tiny cress garden

Tom’s elf beside a white reused pot of green cress shoots, a small seed envelope and a My tiny jungle note.

Your elf has a tiny windowsill jungle of cress, with a seed packet ready for the children to grow another little pot.

Easy elf idea – the woven Christmas paper mat

Tom’s elf beside a red and green woven paper mat, spare paper strips, a glue bottle and a Weaving a Christmas mat note.

Your elf has started weaving green paper strips through a red paper base to make a small Christmas mat.

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.

Easy elf idea – potato-print Christmas wrapping paper

Tom’s elf beside brown paper printed with red circles and green triangles, two potato stamps and small dishes of paint.

Your elf has made his own Christmas wrapping paper with potato stamps, red circles and green triangles on brown paper.

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