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Have you started Elf on the Shelf with your children yet? If you don’t know what it is, you want to check out this article, Elf Magic Elf, from last Christmas, telling all about how Elf on the Shelf works!
Don’t get stumped trying to come up with something for your Elf to do every day in December, print our calendar instead! But make sure you keep it in a secret place–you don’t want your children to know where you get your brilliant ideas from. And speaking of great ideas, we want to hear from you! In our comments, please share the craziest, best, most loved, thing that your Elf has ever done! Then our readers will never run out of ideas!
Be sure to click the link or the calendar for the free printable version of the calendar you see right here!
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Christmas has always been a family celebration in the Grinkmeyer home, but as our children grew older we found that their interest in Christmas morning waned and the sparkle in their eyes was gone. The day after Thanksgiving, 1992, we introduced the Christmas Web in our home with the placement of Magic Wands into their socks that had for years been hung at the fireplace mantel. Attached to each Magic Wand was a piece of yarn (a 70 yard piece of yarn). When our two teen-aged children came down Christmas morning, they found that the yarn was wound through the house – around window latches, door knobs, chairs and doors. It ended in a closet or cabinet which held their special Christmas gift from one of Santa’s elves, an elf who had been looking out for them for the past year and knew of their desire for this special Christmas gift.
The Christmas Web continued as each of our children got married and as they had children. Each of our grandchildren have an Elf on the Shelf or Elf Magic elf who is now the elf that hides their special Christmas gift each year and leads them to it with their individual Magic Wand. We now have seven Magic Wands each with 70 yards of yarn winding through our house every Christmas morning, making getting a cup of coffee an acrobatic achievement before the winding hunt begins.
The Christmas Web has become a highly anticipated family tradition for our children, grandchildren and us. We hope it brings as much joy to your family as it has to ours.
Thanks for the suggestions! I needed some help; this is our first year with the Elf.