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Elf Help

If you have younger children and are doing the ‘Elf on the Shelf’ this year, you’ve likely already fallen out of love with it. Instagram is full of elaborate ideas which are all well and good if you have an hour free every night … but that’s not for everyone. Here are 15 really quick and easy options.

1. Write a little note from the Elf explaining they’re playing hide and seek and your child has to find them ... then just hide the elf in a cupboard or something.

2. Sitting in the fridge.

3. Wrap the elf in toilet paper like they’ve rolled around on the floor or down the stairs.

4. Get a few shoes from the cupboard and line them up into a sort of shoe train, with the elf sitting in the first one.

5. Pile up books on a table and have the elf sit on the top.

6. Make a smiley face out of scarves and hats.

7. Take an empty jar our of recycling, smear a little jam at the bottom and have the elf next to it holding a spoon, like he ate it all.

8. Have the elf climbing on the Christmas tree.

9. Draw a face on a banana, with the elf next to it holding a pen.

10. Hiding in socks in your child’s drawer.

11. Squeezing toothpaste on your child’s toothbrush.

12. Scatter a tiny bit of flour on a worktop (looks messy, but isn’t) and have the elf do some baking. You can write a message in the flour or make a snow angel, too.

13. Sitting on the sofa with a little popcorn and a remote.

14. Playing a board game with some other toys.

15. Have the elf surrounded by some chocolate wrappers … and obviously you need to dispose of the chocolate the night before!

Hopefully you’ll find a few in there. Good luck!

< Back to Main Blog Posted: Dec 2025