Elf Rules

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First year doing it.

Don’t want to go with the creepy, the elves are watching you thing. Have a girl and boy elf, just them no big kit or story book etc. My plan is to put them in our post box with a letter for her from them. I’m going to say they’re Santas helpers from The North Pole …then what? Where will they go after that? She’ll wonder where they are/why she can’t play with them. I get that I make them do silly things for when she wakes up in the morning…but then where do they go when they’ve done the silly thing? Sorry but she’s smart and won’t get why she can’t play with them/why they’ve disappeared again until the next morning 🤷🏻‍♀️
Also, I read that they leave on Christmas Eve when they go back with Santa and I leave a letter for them saying thank you? For what though?

Hope I’m making sense 😂

Maybe don’t bother ??

This. With bells on 🔔

@GrazingSheep I want to do it! Looking forward to the silly tricks part to see her excitement…I just don’t understand the rest and how it’s done really

You’ve not done it before and so you can still be saved. You don’t have to do this, you really don’t. Please please just consider carefully what you are about to get involved in. Once you’ve broken the seal, you can never go back. It’s relentless.

I thought the ‘rule’ was that kids can’t touch them or they lose their magic.

If she is smart she will get it. I don’t think they go anywhere. You move them, somewhere out of reach of the child and they stay there all day. Then you move them again the next night.

There doesn’t need to be rules about it at all. Or whatever rules you make up.

Why can’t she just play with them? Seems a bit mean to buy toys for her but put them out of reach?

Well the point is that they are sent by father christmas and go and report back to him each night about their behaviour. That's why they leave on christmas eve because the child ends up on the nice list and their job is done.

Kill both elves now!

Why can’t she play with them in between times? Then at bedtime they return to the shelf.
Next morning they’ve gotten off the shelf and hidden/made a mess or whatever.

the note they arrive with states that Santa will collect them on 24th when he delivers the presents so they can start planning for next year.

Well the point is that they are sent by father christmas and go and report back to him each night about their behaviour.

Why would you even want to do this?

We started with the whole not touching thing but really it's too hard for them. It kind of got forgotten about, that bit, by next year!
Don't bother with the whole not touching thing.

They can be as mischievous or as uneventful as you want them to be.
Eg if you just want to hide them somewhere each night, do that.
Or could do a few tricks with them occasionally.
Or do tricks all the time.
It's up to you

Am so glad elves ,Christmas Eve boxes etc were not a thing when my lot were little! Just enjoy the school party,nativity play ,local Christmas lights,panto …cannot imagine as a Mum adding Elves into my brain space 🤦‍♀️

@Treaclesandwich 😂😂😂That bad?!!

No way doing the whole reporting back to Santa thing-that’s awful!

I don’t mind her touching/playing with them at all. I just mean what do I say if she’s playing with them all day? Now I take them away? For what reason would I say? She might want to sleep with them etc

@purpleme12 What kind of tricks?

So what do I say in the opening letter? Like why are they actually here?

Just make sure you know where the elf is before she goes to sleep.
You could say she could put the elf to bed and she can make a bed for the elf or something.
As long as you know where it is then you can do what you need to do with it

Why can’t she sleep with them? Just give them to her and let her play with them, cuddle at night, etc.

I don't do a letter.

Just told her the elf is there from Santa and goes back on Christmas Eve.
But obviously it's up to you if you want to do different.

You can Google ideas for what to do with elf.
I've done things like cholocate chips in the pretend potty and elf sitting on potty.
But I don't go all out with mine. He hides a lot of the time each night. And we do the easier things like above.

@Torganer She can but then I have to then wait until she falls asleep/coax them out of her hands/arms possibly when asleep to do the thing 😅

@purpleme12 My Dd will ask if Santa brought them to the house and left them if they’re off Santa, would her finding them in our post box work?
I thought a little letter explaining where they came from, their names etc might be nice..but it’s still no explanation as to why they’re here?

if they touch the elf, it will lose it's magic and possibly die - so mine tend to be fairly high up / out of reach. They get up to mischief during the night for DC to be surprised about in the morning.

We love our elf. We can't wait till Friday till he comes back. I don't get the elf hate tbh.

Ours brings the advent calendars he also leaves the Xmas Eve box. Pinterest has loads of ideas for them Todo. We do a mix of lazy things and sometimes fun things.

I'm sure that would work.
Really with things like Santa, elf Tooth fairies etc the beauty of it is it's all from magic isn't it so really you can make up whatever you want.
They'll just naturally come to realise it's not true when they're older

We don't have the no touching rule in our house. But we deffo use it as a black mail tool. We have got our 4 year old sleeping in her own bed every night this week on the fact the elf is already checking if they are on the good list and will bring a Barbie callender 🤣🤣

Die?!

So not only are these sinister grinning fuckers reporting back on the children to Santa, but if the children touch them they might murder the elves by mistake?