You can adopt/ buy an elf at an elf adoption center like Target or Amazon. Bring them home and read your kids the book then you get to choose the name for the elf. Our is named Princess Jingle Belle or PJB for short. They arrive some time after the Thanksgiving and show up every night until Christmas and then they fly back to the north pole until next year. Kids can talk to the elf but he/she can't talk back. This was a tricky one when several days before Christmas my 5 year old asked for the Elsa Frozen Castle (which was selling out everywhere) she told me she told the elf and he was going to pass it along to Santa. Good news is Santa did bring that castle and Christmas is saved but from now on I tell my kids we see Santa and tell him our presents and no one else.
One more thing no one can touch the elf or they COULD lose their magic. We had a nanny and a maid who both touched our elf the kids saw. Neither knew what the elf was. We only said that if is touched by accident then they probably won't loose the magic. I have heard of parents sprinkling the elf with cinnamon or nutmeg to get it's magic powers back if a kid touched the elf.
By now most people know about the elf on the shelf. There is even a 30 minute Elf on the Shelf movie that was on CBS. There are so many elf accessories that you can buy that you can have you elf dressed in a new outfit every day until Christmas. While some people think it is creepy to have a toy spy on your kids I think it is a sweet tradition that I never had as a child and I love doing it. Now don't get me wrong I would wait until your kids are a little older. I think my older daughter was 4 when we first adopted our elf. When they are that young the no touching thing was hard. So each day our elf traveled from light fixture to light fixture through out our house occasionally landing on the tree, mantel or anywhere else high up and untouchable. But as my kids grew older and the elf has become more fun and I have gotten more into it. My kids love it. Yes, I have forgotten to move the elf. I have gotten out of bed in the middle of the night or early in the morning to go do it. But now that I have done it for so long it has become a habit. I have a list of ideas and know what I am going to do each night. It only takes a few minutes and I never forget. Well at least not the last 2 years.
When my older daughter is too old I hope to recruit her to help stage the elf for her little sister. Who knows when my kids are much older maybe the elf will show up with beer once in a while just to keep the tradition alive.
For those needing ideas I will show you what our PJB has been up to the last few years.
1) Sledding Elf
2) Santa Bucks Elf
3) Reading Rudolph Elf
4) Minecraft Elf
5) Musical Toilet Paper holder Elf
6) Lego Elf
7) Hershey Kiss Tree Elf
8) Elf Twister
9) Elf Photos
10) Glowing Elf
11) Do not forget to bake Santa cookies Elf
12) Syrup and advent calendar Elf
13) Popcorn Elf
14) Smiley tooth paste Elf
15) Reading on the potty Elf
16) Caped Zip Wire flying Elf
17) Bringing a ginger bread house Elf
18) Chalk board Elf
19) Make snow and snow angel Elf
20) Only X days left Elf
21) Relaxing Elf
22) Collecting all the candy canes Elf
23) On vacation at Great Wolf Lodge Elf
24) Did you miss me Elf
25) Upside down advent calendar Elf
26) Coloring Elf
27) New Christmas Jammies Elf
28) Hiding in the TP Elf
29) Hiding elf
30) "Be Good" Scrabble Elf
31) Nativity Elf
32) Minion Elf
33) Snow Flake Elf
34) On Safari Elf
35) S'mores Elf
36) Writing on the Mirror Elf
37) Leg Lamp Elf
38) Umbrella Elf
39) Wine and Cheese Elf
40) Star Wars Elf
41) On a Reindeer Elf
42) Reading Santa Claus is Coming to Town with Santa Elf
43) Lighting up the Barbie Dream House Elf
44) Coming out the refrigerator Elf
45) Wrecking Ball Elf
46) Frozen Elf
47) I am Back Elf with Door
48) Sick Elf
49) Bubble Elf
50) Slinky Elf
51) Donut snowman and reindeer Elf
52) Rainbow Loom Elf
53) I've got my eyes on you Elf
54) Sharpie on pics Elf
55) Find the hidden candy canes Elf
56) TP the tree Elf
57) Good Bye Letter Elf
58) Secret Service Elf - "Gate Jumper at the White House"
59) Sneaky Elf - replacing the stockings with our underwear
60) Pearl bead Elf
BONUS - MORE ELF IDEAS - I MAY KEEP ADDING TO THESE UNTIL CHRISTMAS
61) Coping your elf Butt Elf
62) Bringing the Elf Movie Elf
63) Building a snowman with Elsa and Anna Elf
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