The holiday season brings with it a blend of nostalgia and tradition. For many families, one of the most cherished and magical traditions is the arrival of the Elf on the Shelf. For years, this little scout elf has served as a whimsical observer, moving around the house to keep an eye on children’s behaviour and reporting back to Father Christmas each night. However, as your kids grow older and enter their teenage years, the time eventually comes to say goodbye to the elf. This marks the end of a chapter in the holiday tradition and can be both bittersweet…

Do you have a Scout Elf who comes from the North Pole to make sure your kids are behaving ? We’ve had our elves for a few years now and built up a stack of mini props so they can make the kids laugh each morning. My kids are now 12 and 13 so unfortunately don’t believe in all the Christmas magic that they used to. Thankfully they haven’t told me explicitly yet, so we are still having fun with our elves! I love that our Christmas traditions have changed whilst the kids have grown up. Whilst we no longer…

Our two elves got up to a lot of mischief during December. Sometimes the elves just moved around our house, but they also did some fun things, such as hiding candy canes for the kids to find or playing poker with chocolate coins. December is an expensive month so I like to make my elf activities as low cost as possible. Over the years we’ve been visited by our elves we’ve made a few printables to help with their elf-ish activities. Our free printable Elf on the Shelf twister board is always popular and I love to think that other…

For me December means planning some fun antics for our two elves. As the children are 10 and 11 I wondered if this would the year where they don’t believe the Christmas magic, but thankfully they still do! It’s so much fun to come up with a different idea for each day. I know that everyone does Elf on the Shelf differently, some people just move their elf every night, some have really naughty elves. We have two elves which means they can have fun together. Most elf activities can easily be adapted for two of more elves. One of…