Elf door ideas

[Autumnlily14]

Hi all,

I had the cute idea of doing an elf door for my 2 dc (1 and 3). I want to pretend that the elf delivers something overnight for them to wake up to. I'm happy for it to be letters or ideas for things or even food/games/toys whatever but I don't really have the ideas.

I'm going to do dec 1 as a welcome letter type thing and probably include a sweet or some other small thing.

Ideally I'd like to do it up until Christmas Eve (needs to help Santa get ready for the big day) but we're on a very limited budget.

Any ideas would be great!

Thanks all! 🎄

Well, have fun, but don't forget whatever you start now you're going to have to keep up every December for the next 10 years! Have a think about whether you REALLY want that!

What about a little treasure hunt? I have teens so can't remember if that'd be age appropriate for teeny tinies! Maybe leave little glitter trails or... Little foot prints (paper coloured in black then cut out? Showing them how he's gone over and under things...) or... Cake sprinkles?? Something for them to follow or look for without anything wrote down as (from memory, they might not be the best readers 😁) at the end of the trail could be Cheerios with a little fondant/coloured icing sugar on to replicate elf sized doughnuts then he's brought them from the north pole? Oh, how I miss having little ones around... nostalgic sigh

My partner is amazing at all the Christmas magic! On the second to last day of November, she sets out playmobil people with hi vis jackets and helmets, tools and a men at work sign (we had an old roadworks playmobil set). The following day, the elf door arrives. On the 1st December, the breakfast table is laid beautifully with Christmas napkins, mugs etc, and the elves (we have two) are there with their advent calendars and the book advent calender (this is the same every year - our Christmas books (eg: Lucy and Tom’s Christmas, Mog’s Christmas and the like) are rewrapped and one is opened and read every evening as a bedtime book advent calendar. When Christmas is over, the books go away until next Christmas.

The elves don’t bring anything else and the napkins/ books etc are recycled every year - and the books were mainly second hand in the first place.

as a Pp said - only do what you are prepared to continue.
My two are teenagers and we still have to read the Night Before Christmas on Christmas Eve…..

@CatherineCawoodsbestie I love this idea! Do the elves bring the books each night or are they all in a pile? And do you buy new books each year? I keep wanting to do 12 days of Christmas books for example but I never do because within two years that's already 24 books!