Buddy, our elf on the shelf returned to the Skinner casa the night after Thanksgiving and also picked up where he left off with his mischief making!!! For those of you that haven't heard about this fun family tradition: Santa sends an elf down from the north pole to watch the kiddos in the house and report back to him each night. He sits on a shelf and watches the good, the bad, and the ugly and then after the last kiddo falls asleep he travels back to the north pole to tell Santa. When he gets back, he usually gets bored and finds something fun to do around the house. When the first kid wakes up, his Christmas magic stops and he freezes doing whatever he was doing. We hunt him down each morning with lots of laughs and return him to his shelf. It serves two purposes: 1-It helps kids keep their behavior in check because they know that Santa will find out and 2-It brings a little of the magic of Christmas Eve to the entire month of December. He flies home with Santa on Christmas Eve and next year returns after you put your tree up! For those of you that haven't been give their own elf from Santa, he also left some at Target! ;)
I plan on taking pictures of what we find Buddy up to each morning and making a scrapbook of his adventures for the kids to treasure in the future and thought that any of you looking for ideas for your own elf might enjoy them too. So here are days 1-5. I'll update with more pics when I can.
Day 1: Buddy climbed into Allie's MegaBlocks and started an elf sized tower.
Day 2: Totally busted in Mama's spot watching Nick Jr!
Day 3: Snowboarding with the Playstation.
Day 4: Playing peek-a-boo with the Christmas ornaments.
Day 5: Even elves like to color!!!
Toooooooooooo cute!! :):):):):):):):):):):)
ReplyDeleteLOVE it!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely delightful idea! You put me in the Christmas spirit, too! TFS
ReplyDeleteSue S.