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Meet Louie, or Elf on the Shelf! We have some naughty elf on the shelf ideas for your elf on a shelf! Kids love helping with the elf, too! These naughty elf on the shelf ideas are so much fun for the whole family. They’re even great for after your little ones are done believing in your elf.
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Seriously, how fun is the elf on the shelf? I’m sad that my kids are a little too old to get excited anymore about Louie, our elf, but that doesn’t stop me from pulling him out every year!
Here are my favorite super fun and kind of naughty elf on the shelf ideas for the holiday season.
Who else has a Christmas elf on the shelf? Ours comes out to visit the day after Thanksgiving, but I know some people wait until December 1 for him to visit.
Even if you want to wait until a week before Christmas (a lot of people are overwhelmed with the elf and want to commit for a shorter amount of time), there are still some fun ideas for your elf!
We just got one. Yes, my kids are 7 and 11 and we just heard about the elf this year. I’m a little slow.
Louie is a welcome addition to the family… sometimes.
Sometimes he is naughtier than the leprechaun that visits us in March.
And sometimes he leaves messes for us to clean up. Because I need one more little one to clean up after.
But when he makes messes, he usually does something nice to make up for it. After the flour debacle, we woke up to find him stamping my Christmas cards.
Most of the time he’s good, though. And he keeps us on our toes and on our best behavior. He reports back to Santa, you know.
In the past few weeks, we have found Louie bowling with our fruit,
taking a long soak in a hot tub full of marshmallows,
keeping a watchful eye on Billy the hibernating lizard,
helping himself to some of our Christmas candy,
playing with the gift wrapping,
and swinging from our window blinds.
He is quite the character.
If you’re in the market for an elf, we bought Louie from Amazon. He’s actually called Christopher Pop-in-kins, and we LOVE him!
I post our photos on facebook and tag Christopher, and he always responds with a fun and witty comment:
This may be the last year that Jack believes that Louie reports back to Santa, but I have a feeling that we’ll have fun playing with him for many holiday seasons.
Do you have an elf of the shelf? What kind of trouble does he or she get into?
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Why oh why did I not see this last night :( I just paid 30.00 for the creepy elf on the shelf and yours is so so cute and the Facebooking is awesome! To bad my daughter has already met and named Lily or she would be going back to the store lol. Thanks for sharing!
Looking forward to having the elf on the shelf doing his silliness with Griffin this yr. Thanks for some wonderful ideas.
That is so fun! We’ve heard of them but haven’t gotten one yet. I love that he responds to your photos!!!!
I had never heard of them until this year. We do not have one though.
We have a lot of deer around our house and I tell the kids that they are the reindeer scouts for the official team and Santa. That they keep any eye on what’s going on and are scoping out landing spots. They have to come back every year to make sure there aren’t any changes to the house.
Such great and fun ideas! Lilly is LOVING ours… every morning “Ollie” is the first thing she looks for. She even drew him a picture that he now carries around with him. SO FUN!
What fun places he has been. I love, too, that when you tag Christopher Popinkins, he replies back to you. So fun! Our elf, Moby Dick hasn’t been as creative….but he is still effective with our kids…thank goodness!
For some reason elves do not seem to appear in England. One of my other American friends has got two called Buddy and Bella and they seem to get up to the same sorts of things as yours !!!.