We're having great fun with our elf for the first time this year. DS1 is 3.8 and loves discovering what cheekiness the elf has been up to in the morning.
Most surprising of all has been dh's attitude - he was really sniffy about the whole idea and thought it was ridiculous. However he's really getting into it and keeps coming up with new ideas, he even went out in the middle of the night to set up the elf in the car 
How are you all getting on and what's been the most successful 'mischief' the elf has caused so far? <on the hunt for more ideas>
Ours has eaten lots of chocolates and strewn the wrappers around the lounge whilst having her hand in the tin - DD loved that.
We came down to discover she'd pulled all the tissues out the box yesterday.
Today she was sat at the piano.
She has also pulled the stones out the fireplace - a big no-no in our house.
Found her with her bum sticking out the Xmas tree too.
She had some chocolate tree dec's in her lap for DD one day so she's not always naughty.
She also hung DD's knickers on the tree and wore a pair on her head 
That's it so far...
I thought she may unroll the loo paper one morning and spill milk while trying to get DD's breakfast. I may find her with her head in the washing machine or tucked up in bed with DD.
It's lots of fun but also a bit tedious having to remember to do something each night.
Mildly my DD is also 8 and totally believes 
Ooh I like the knickers idea - ds1 is totally obsessed with pants 
so think he'd like that.
I thought 8 year olds would be far too cynical these days so nice to hear your dds are still enjoying it.
We've had:
On the christmas tree
Hiding in a pile of (clean!) laundry
Having eaten an orange with all the peel around
Been cutting with ds1's scissors so lots of bits of paper all over the floor
Outside in the car
Set up a tea party for ds1's cuddly toys
Reading one of ds1's books
So nothing very exciting so far - need to ramp it up a bit the closer we get I think
DS has enjoyed finding the elf having done a green (food colouring) wee into a breakfast bowl. He loved that so much that I might do it again 
Unimpressed with him making Santa hats and blue-tacking them to photos of himself and DD but I think he'll like it when he wakes to find Rudolph noses painted on everyone.
DH has been very scathing about it but the last few nights he's been full of enthusiasm and ideas 
I've just written the goodbye letter and am a bit teary 
Hopefully the sight of the Christmas Eve box will distract the DC and we will have none of this
We've had a great time, this year is our first year and we (mostly dh) have been raiding Pinterest for ideas, the elf on the first evening drew on a picture of the girls with an OHP pen (moustaches beards and glasses (DD1 7 got really upsat and wrote to santa telling him how naughty the elf had been !)
We've done playing on the ds, eating gingerbread the girls had made, tea party with their 3 bears, writing christmas card to the reindeer.
We had one morning where we forgot so sent the kids downstairs and drew moustaches on each other (Holly had been 'touched' the day before so then we had to do the cinnamon recovery to give her some elf magic to get to the North Pole). We said she obviously didn't want to stay in our room as Daddy snores!
We've had loads of fun and the kids race out of bed every morning to find her!
This was our first time. We've done this so far-
Hiding in DS's pants, while waving out of the drawer.
Made gingerbread men and left out smarties for decoration.
Painted everyone's nose red.
Put a Santa hat on the dogs, and was found sleeping next to the spaniel (we did it just before the DCs woke up, and made sure he was sleeping, so no chewing!)
Holding onto some helium balloons, about five of them or something, and then everyone having to jump around trying to get them (we decided to let them get on with it, and then I let DD2 climb on my shoulders to get him as he was tied to the cord things).
In the hamster ball.
On the toliet in the doll's house thing.
Looking at a photo on the camera (we took it of the DCs, even DD1 who's 12 and hasn't been a believer since about 5, where we'd all put Christmas hats of them on while they were watching TV and didn't realise until about five minutes later ) and with popcorn sprinkled around him, and he was trying to hold one near his mouth. DD2 and DS (and even DD1) loved that!
Had a icing bag thing next to six cupcakes, one of them half iced, with purple icing in the bag. Five all for us, the other one we left for Elf (and DH and I shared).
Some great ideas, we haven't done the can't touch rule as I thought it would be too difficult with young ones (though we do try to stop 7mo ds2 eating the elf... )
Ds1 liked yesterday's which was the elf in the shower having squirted shampoo/shower gel around and was then wrapped in a flannel as a towel.
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