What’s your best Christmas tradition memory? I remember sitting with an Argos catalogue circling everything I wanted from Santa. For those Christmases when I was older and there was no longer, ahem, ‘any magic’, I would raid the house months before to see what I could find. Yep, I would even resort to shaking the presents under the tree, even peeling sellotape back, all weeks before the big day.
But, other than the standard cookie and carrot for Santa and Rudolph, I don’t remember any traditions. Any little family things that were unique to us. My friends would have their little Christmas traditions. Little things from new PJ’s, watching certain Christmas films on Christmas Eve or opening a present early. Don’t get me wrong I had a great time! This isn’t an X-Factor sob story! It got me thinking though, about what traditions I want to introduce with my little family.
This year Munch will be 2 and a half years old, so will be able to start making those childhood Christmas memories. I want to make sure that besides the excitement and the carrot for Rudolph that we have our own little Christmas tradition to carry on through the years. The fact that she keeps telling me ‘no like Santa’ will not deter me!
Last year I saw many people on Instagram with Elf on The Shelf. I’m more than a little freaked out by dolls, but this little guy is super cute! For those who are not familiar, you adopt Elf into your family for the holidays and name him. The Elf is sent by Santa to oversee the children and report back to Mr Claus whether they have been naughty or nice. Each night he moves to a new place to survey the next days action, before heading off on Christmas Eve.
What you do with your Elf is up to you! The ideas are endless. You can view and share your Elf adventures with us on Pinterest and stay tuned for more Elf on the Shelf sharing fun starting in December!
I love this idea for a Christmas tradition! Something that Munch can get involved in now, give us a laugh and we can continue for years to come and even pass down.
I love it so much that I have decided to give one away!
Just enter below and 1 lucky winner will receive their very own family Elf on The Shelf.
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Entries close 25th November and Elf will be dispatched Next Day Delivery.
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Precariously dangling upside down from the lounge lights…
Making snow angels in flour on the kitchen floor is a good one 🙂
One of the funniest elf pranks I’ve seen is wrapping the toilet in Christmas wrapping paper – I think that one would make my little one laugh!
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You know I have absolutely no idea Im not imaginative at all so I suppose I better start trying for this wee ones future christmases!
Tucked in that day’s advent calendar bag with a half eaten chocolate.
I’d keep moving my elf around…. even to the bathroom to ‘watch’ you hehe
Lauren x
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Inside my little boys RC tractor at Christmas, before he knows it’s RC he will think that the elf is driving it heeehe
Peering down from the headboard
In a shoe, with the laces like reins!
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in the freezer drawer!
trying to be a fairy by waving my stick as wand in the air and smashing the light mum was not impressed.
On the car dash!
On the top of the door so when ‘Grandad’ comes in on Xmas day it falls off landing on his head giving his grandkids much merriment
Clutching the remote, that is the first thing my son goes for in the morning
Love this! I’ll have to get thinking but maybe precariously climbing the blinds in the living room 🙂
in amongst his toy box with his eyes peeking out 😛
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Sat on top of our Spider tank 🙂
on the back of the loo
Inside the cereal box with hole cut out to spy through x
Peeking over the top of the curtain pole in my little girls room 🙂
from the ceiling light
Sitting next to me and my large glass of sherry 🙂
The bathroom
By the bath
I would out him on the bathroom shelf – and tell the kids hes watching to tell Santa if they are cleaning their teeth properly!!!
Hiding in the dogs basket
On the car boot shelf staring out of the window,
Fishing on the toilet.
munching mince pies, in the kitchen
I think I would have to put him on a shelf (elf in shelf) in the fridge. So that whoever was first up in the morning would get a surprise, and maybe we would hear a whoop of delight. At such a cute little fellow guarding our fridge delights (foodstuff).
inside my Christmas stocking thinking I have something
on the toilet ha ha
Squashed under a ‘Elf & Safety’ Mannual.
On the roof of my car.
Id put him behind some books on my bookshelf peeping out from behind the books!
sitting on my grandsons bed on christmas eve and tell them Santa has left him to make sure they go to sleep!
Sitting on the side of the bath
I like the idea of setting him on the fridge shelf occasionally, my youngest is forever poking in there!
peeking up the chimney, to see if “he’s” on his way!!
On the christmas tree!
Ahh i have no idea! My little boys have been going crazy for this little elf. As soon as i heard the story behind the elf i fell in love with the idea and when i told my boys they sat watching yt videos for ages and have been telling everyone about him and how magic he is. They wrote a letter last night to santa asking if an elf could come stay with us until christmas 🙂 so cute.
Great giveaway xxx
Abseiling down the christmas tree would be pretty cool!
Right next to my sons face just before he wakes up lol
In my newborn god daughters pram, take it out for a walk and see the shock on peoples faces when they ask to see the baby.
In my sons pillowase
In the bathroom
On the potty
On top of my fridge, just simple waiting for a nibble or two
in the fridge 🙂
in the broomcupboard
I’d hide him in the tin of quality streets, only the green triangles left! (It’s a tough job but someone’s got to do it!)
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In the toilet
Would love one next to my rabbit for a fab photo xx
top of bathroom cabinet watching the loo!
in the living room window xx
I would put Elf… Inside the biscuit tin!
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In the fridge to look at you accusingly when you open it yet again.
On my computer desk
Stuck in the blender :-p
next to my hubby’s bed side drawers – would certainly surprise him first thing
Dancing on the rooftops
I’d put him the fridge next to the milk that he’d turned red in the night!
Stuck behind the kitchen window, looking in.
In the kids lunch boxes!
Right on the end of their beds!
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maybe on to loo roll holder in the downstairs toilet x
In the bread bin!
In my sons school bag or lunch box
In the biscuit tin, so it caught the culprit! 😉
Popping out the letterbox to greet all our visitors and the postman so his the 1st to read his elfnews as he gets humpy if someone else reads it before him
I think it needs to be in the cat basket to do secret survellience
Aww I’ve been wanting one of these for years!!! The kids would absolutely love it! 🙂
I might pose him putting cling film over the toilet seat if I didn’t have to clean it up. 🙂
In my daughters room as elves make her giggle 🙂
We got our elf on the shelf for the first time last year, he was so much fun, I can’t wait for to come out again this year.
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Will pin x
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in my daughter’s set of drawers…mixing up all the socks! : )
In the cats bed 🙂
We caught our elf eating the quality street last year!
On top of their wardrobe to see & here all the stuff I miss ie who ate the last biscuit, where do the missing socks go , lol
my father’ slippers!
Probably in the downstairs loo! That would make my 4 year old laugh!!
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Top of the fridge
In my husbands bag for work! Ok, kid wouldn’t get it until later but he’d have to spend all day carrying rounf an elf *evil laugh*
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Making his way back up the chimney haha
On Santa’s plate of cookies surrounded by crumbs 🙂
on my chinchillas cage she wud love it
I would put him on the mirror of my teenage daughters dressing table
in the toothbrush pot
He would need to be with me in the kitchen busy making lovely things for Christmas elves and Santa
So many places but I think sat on the sofa reading a book would be good or at the dinner table with a bowl of cereal 🙂
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I think Mr Elf may have to make an appearance on top of any messes that are left for mummy to clean up – just so my 3 year old knows that he is keeping tabs on biscuits down the back of the sofa and so on….
On the shelf in the bathroom so you dont see him until you sit down to do your business!!! lol
At the end of my son’s bed – it would make him smile!
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I would him in the fridge so he can keep his eye on people trying to sneak treats!!
sitting inside my christmas wreath.
on the toilet
Has to be attached to the toilet roll holder haha!!
sitting on the shelf in the workshop to make sure I make all the things I have promised!
Inside my son’s Ninky Nonk
In my daughters slippers!
In my pocket so I can carry him round with me and he can cheer me up
On my TARDIS!
On the toilet
In the bathroom to make sure teeth have been cleaned,then moved to the bedroom to check if toys have been tidied away,and then by the tree to wait for Santa.
On the piano
Am I the only person worried about the elf coming alive while you sleep?
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And eating your eyeballs?!
Hidden behind the toilet
I really like the idea of putting the Elf in the dishwasher. He could be hanging in there like on a jungle gym waiting for his dishwasher “shower”! Fun fun.
In my teenage son’s school bag
Peeking out of the top of mummy’s advent calendar (after ripping the doors off and stealing the choccies…)
On top of the towns Christmas tree, this year it hasn’t been decorated at all really.
In the oven with the turkey
Hidden in our Christmas Tree 🙂
Top of the tree.
on the Sky News desk xxxx
in the sweetie cupboard,he would catch the kids trying too sneak extra treats 😉
in the bathroom to check the boys in the house are not peeing on the toilet seat
In place of the angel on the top of the tree 😉
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Hanging out of the letterbox
on the toilet cistern saying dont forget to flush
I’d leave him in the fridge
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maybe on the toilet system or the edge of the bath
Under the duvet….it’s amazing what little boys get up to in bed!
In the lizard tank to keep our lizard company (after all we all deserve a friend ) x
I think behind the bathroom door so you dont seem him till your sat down x
I would move the Elf around
sitting on my Blingin! gnome by by front door.. Just to treat the postman 🙂
There are so many great ideas on here! Think I’d maybe go for him riding around on a toy dinosaur or casually chatting to the other dolls around the water cooler (or more likely the water bottle).
In the bath – might encourage my daughter not to scream when we try to bath her
I would hide him in Nana’s bathroom on Xmas Eve, looking into a nice Jacuzzi full of bubbles (the sink)
Sat in side or 2year olds huge box of megabloks 🙂
He can climb the living room curtain!
I would put him in the biscuit tin and frighten the person who keeps nicking all the biccies
i think he would be fab in the bathroom holding the loo roll. or kitchen with the kitchenroll 🙂
inside the fridge!
In the bird bath – that would confuse the hell out of the cat! 😉
I would out it on the edge of my fireplace along with my reindeer and santa x too cute 🙂
I would put him in my mums wardrobe 😉
In my garden tree
I would put him on top of the christmas tree!
In my hubby’s packed lunch.
sat in the sugar bowl
there are a few places i’d put him, might move him around to freak some of my uni house mates… the first place Elf would travel is to the bathroom, when you share the bathroom with as many people as i do, you might as well get a giggle once in a while, i’d sit him on the toilet roll holder so when they reach to get the loo roll a nice little elf will make them jump (not cruel, just a uni prank) 😛
The other place elf would travel to is the tea bag box, it sits in a cupboard hidden away so when my house mates go to grab one, little elf is there again…
hanging on the dog flapx
In the bathroom, checking my little boy and other half has put the toilet seat down.
From the light fittings
Lol hiding in the toilet!
Hanging from the Christmas lights.
in the bathroom
In the lift to our flat 🙂
In the dolls’ house
i have not got anywhere funny but i think the elf would look fab on my dressing table cheer me up every morning so i can get in the spirit of xmas everyday and spread the xmas cheer
Sitting on top of the Xbox !
In the great big dog food bin!
Guarding the treat cupboard! I’m sure things would not vanish if Santa had his elf watching it!!
Sitting on top of the Christmas tree
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On my wheelchair
Like the sound of this ‘Elf on the Shelf’ thing, seems like fun!
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in the bathroom andrex puppy styley
hanging off the curtains
Hanging upside down on the frame of the window, so nosey people looking in get a fright
I would attach him to the dogs coat like a mini jockey
In a bowl of Cornflakes – it’s hungry work back and forth to the North Pole you know!
lying next to my child when they wake up 🙂
The funniest place I would leave our elf would be in the kitchen surround by the remains of a gingerbread men making session
Loving these ideas and this tradition. Can’t wait to join in. How about having him kissing a teddy under the mistletoe?
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Would have to be next to me in bed – make sure my OH behaves 😉 x
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