Our Elf on the Shelf has been getting into some interesting shenanigans this week so I wanted to share in case others were looking for ideas on what to do with the little stinker. Our elf has been really fun to pose and set up each night so that Owen can find him in the morning and he is starting to really get into finding the elf in the morning and seeing what he is up to. I'm just happy that I have so far remembered to move him every night. Alas, our elf still does not have a name because Owen can only come up with nonsense words or potty humor (I have refused to let him name the elf Poot or Potty). He also turns down anything I come up with.
Here are photos from our first full week of Elf on the Shelf:
Day 1: Our elf arrived with a brand new Christmas shirt and a countdown letting us know there were 24 days until Christmas.
Day 2: Our elf brought Owen a Frozen coloring book and some crayons. The elf was coloring one of the pages and as Owen said, "My elf doesn't color very well."
Day 3: Our elf was a bit mischievous on Wednesday. He drew mustaches and other silliness on our family photo wall. Papa Elf may have gotten into this and helped.
Our elf turned baby Graham into Harry Potter.
And Owen was turned into a fisherman.
Our elf doesn't have the best balance, so he had to be taped to the wall. He actually fell down during the night and scared the daylights out of me.
Here, one-year-old Owen is turned into Batman and is one of our favorite presents ever.
Day 4: Elf added two books to our extensive Christmas book collection: Little Blue Truck Christmas and Llama Llama Holiday Drama.
Day 5: Our elf brought Owen a pile of coins to put in his piggy bank. According to the note he left, the elf has been collecting change he sees on the sidewalks every night when he flies back to the North Pole. Owen got a particularly big kick out of the note and asked me to read it to him a dozen times that day. The notes were downloaded from Who-Arted.com.
Day 6: Our elf made a mess in the kitchen, making snow angels in a pile of flour. He also brought us a box of pancake mix so we could have a nice pancake breakfast together as a family on Saturday morning.
Day 7: Our elf was found perched in our Christmas tree after having decorated it while we were sleeping.
Day 8: Elf made Owen some snowmen out of donuts for breakfast. This was a particularly fun elf treat to create (once again, Papa Elf got into this one) and Owen of course, was obsessed with the note from the elf and made me read it to him a million times. He honestly was so excited about it that he just sat at the kitchen table and talked about the snowmen and the note for almost an hour without even eating them.
We set everything up at his place at the table so it was ready when he got up in the morning. Tim added a Reese's wrapper hat and a tiny scarf to the snowmen.
The bodies are made of two small powdered donuts and the heads are donut holes. The arms are pretzel sticks, the nose is a piece of carrot, and the eyes, nose, mouth, and buttons are black sprinkles.
This is the face of one happy kid. He's the cutest. Christmas is so much fun now that he's old enough to get into the spirit.
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