What is your elf on the shelf doing

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Today my elf arrived with the advent train what have other people's elves done today?

Mine brought advent calendars. That's it for the first day.

This elf thing is new to me, do you have to find something for him to 'do' each day? I just don't think I am that imaginative.

Mine made a Christmas breakfast and found my Xmas table cloth I'd been looking all over fir ;). I'll add a pic in the next post as I'm on the app and can't see an option to add a pic.

Here it is (namechange fail)

Ginauk, I just look on Pinterest for ideas. Heres my last few years pictures if anyone wants ideas.
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Mine is languishing in an h&m carrier bag on the top shelf in my bathroom after i decided late last night that, actually, i couldn't be arsed.

Dontopen brilliant pics wonderful ideas :)

Today Tinsel made the bathroom look a bit more festive.

Ours has taken Kevin the carrot hostage and drawn minions on all the bananas

Is anyone else's dc frightened of the elf? It was my first time doing it yesterday and my 2 dds are afraid of their lives of him! Don't like the idea of an elf doing things in the house when they are in bed etc! It freaks them out

Anal with my Totoro plushie.

Nothing yet - she is in hiding ( where she has been last few years) and will only come out - 5 days before xmas eve - ( its all I can handle) she will pop in to see how the DC are - what they like, in case FC cant get whats on their list, she will get a feel for toys they like. She will also get into some mischief.

That toilet Santa is genius. Pissing and crapping on Santa for 24 days! It's a wonderful time .

Ours arrived with a welcome note to say who they were beside some smarties that spelled out Hi Badgers DC. Today Elf was roasting marshmallows over a battery powered tea light candle.

I've gotten ideas from pinterest and I've kept a note so I know what we're doing each day, tomorrow is a nice breakfast but 'my' ideas are around not having to tidy up lots of Elf mess!

solomon I think my DD would be the same so I don't think it's a good idea in our house until she is a bit older, she is 3.

What is Tinsel doing to that teapot?

Dirty mind Enid Dd1 is in on it this year and she put it like that.

My sons are 13 and 10 and refuse to let the magic of the Elf go

Today he brought them peanut kit kats as he likes to bring them treats. I am still expected to hide him so they can seek him out. He hides, moves round and every few days gets up to mischief. Years ago he wrapped the Christmas tree in toilet roll and the photo of the children's faces still warms my heart to this day.

I think this relates back to my own childhood where my Mum was miserable about decorations and wouldn't even have a tree if it was down to her. Luckily my Dad loved Christmas and had no taste when it came to decorations

Ginauk my dds are 2 and 6 and they are freaked out!! I had to write a letter from santa to say that he has taking the elf back till they are a bit older as he knows They are a bit scared of the elf! It seems from here that they are in the majority of being afraid!! My ds 11 don't give a shite

My naughty elf has opened the tub of heroes and dived right in!

Mine has brought new gloves for going to the Christmas tree farm tomorrow :-)

Last night he was rigged up to the mic on the karaoke
The night before he built up the Jenga, took all the lower middle ones out, and sat inside it
Tonight he's in a stocking on the tree

Ours climbed the curtains and ate lots of chocolate coins and left the wrappers everywhere. Tonight he I can't be arsed to think of anything but he might read a story to some dinosaurs

I went to bed early last night and mysteriously our elf didn't manage to do anything so now I have two puzzled and unhappy children downstairs

They were a pair of whingebags yesterday though, so maybe she's lost her Christmas spirit.

So far this year she's arrived hidden in a cereal box with a load of chocolate shapes, and had a marshmallow snowball fight in the kitchen with Elsa and Lottie.

Previous years' antics have included fishing in the sink (wearing yellow waders handmade from an old rubber glove), skiing down the stairs with oven chips strapped to her feet, and of course the ever popular decorating the tree with pants.

Tinsel got plastered last night.