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Unique Elf Ideas

Funny elf idea – the tiny snack vending machine

Tom’s elf beside a homemade cardboard snack vending machine with paper snack packets and a one-smile paper coin.

A homemade cardboard snack machine charges one smile per treat, and your elf is testing the biscuit button very thoroughly.

Funny elf idea – the king of Christmas

Tom’s elf wearing a gold paper crown seated on the official red-and-white Cheery Chair with a teddy and rubber duck below.

Your elf takes a seat on a tiny festive throne, puts on a paper crown and announces a very generous biscuit policy.

Easy elf idea – the tiny dino fashion studio

Tom’s elf wearing the official green dinosaur hoodie and standing pants beside homemade design cards and a Dino designs sign.

An official dinosaur hoodie outfit turns your elf into a tiny fashion designer, choosing patterns for his next Christmas look.

Easy elf idea – the spaghetti bridge

Tom’s elf beside a small dry spaghetti bridge spanning two low books on a tray, with a toy car waiting before it.

Your elf has built a tiny bridge from dry spaghetti, with a toy car waiting to see whether his pasta engineering will work.

Funny elf idea – the shrinking-boots mystery

Tom’s elf beside adult green Wellington boots, tiny green paper boot cutouts and a Who shrank the boots note.

Tiny paper boots appear beside a full-size pair of wellies, and your elf looks rather suspicious about the sudden shrinking mystery.

Easy elf idea – the cereal dinosaur dig

Tom’s elf holding a small paintbrush beside a tray of dry bran cereal with a grey toy stegosaurus partly buried in it.

A tray of dry cereal becomes a pretend dinosaur excavation, with a partly buried toy and your elf brushing away the discovery site.

Easy elf idea – the rainbow water laboratory

Tom’s elf at a tray with red, yellow and blue coloured water in clear cups, an empty mixing cup and a Rainbow lab sign.

Your elf sets up a tiny colour laboratory with three cups of coloured water, an empty mixing cup and a homemade Rainbow lab sign.

Funny elf idea – the fridge-door polar holiday

Tom’s elf seated on a clean tray inside an open refrigerator with a paper penguin and a Wish you were chilly postcard.

Your elf takes a very short polar holiday on a clean fridge tray, with a paper penguin and a Wish you were chilly postcard.

Funny elf idea – the cardboard robot costume

Tom’s elf seated in a foil-covered cardboard robot torso costume with paper buttons, holding a Beep More biscuits note.

A little foil-covered box becomes your elf’s robot costume, complete with paper buttons and a very particular request for biscuits.

Easy elf idea – the tea-towel camping trip

Tom’s elf outside a striped tea-towel tent supported by books, beside a teddy camper and a pretend tissue-paper campfire.

Your elf goes camping indoors under a tea-towel tent, with a teddy companion and a little pretend paper campfire.

Easy elf idea – the North Pole flight school

Tom’s elf seated in a red and green inflatable airplane on a cardboard runway, with a teddy holding a take-off clearance sign.

A Christmas inflatable plane sits on a homemade runway, with your elf taking flying lessons and teddy handling the take-off clearance.

Funny elf idea – the egg-box treasure hunt

Tom’s elf wearing a folded paper pirate hat beside an open egg-box treasure chest containing buttons and wrapped chocolate coins.

An empty egg box becomes a pirate treasure chest, with a homemade map, shiny buttons and your elf celebrating his discovery.

Funny elf idea – the museum of very small things

Tom’s elf curating a homemade museum with a toast crumb, shiny button and pine needle on three small cardboard display stands.

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

Funny elf idea – the chief tinsel officer

Tom’s elf at a miniature cardboard office desk with a Chief Tinsel Officer sign and a toy visitor

Our elf becomes Chief Tinsel Officer at a cardboard desk, complete with paperwork and a toy waiting for an appointment.

Funny elf idea – the chocolate piano

Tom’s elf playing a cardboard piano with white and dark chocolate keys for a teddy audience

White and dark chocolate pieces make a keyboard for our elf’s tiny cardboard piano. Includes a completely paper version.

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