Put him in your silverware drawer…just lying down with the spoons.(Just have him sitting nearby with a whisk!) Have it “cook” M&Ms in a pan on your stove top.Place it in or on one of your child’s toys - inside a dinosaur’s mouth, or driving a Barbie car.Make it a little cotton ball-covered hat, along with a sign that says, “I’m a Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins!”.Tape the elf to the wall, with tape on its arms and legs, and army figurines pointing their weapons at it.Put the elf inside a drinking glass (upside down, so it’s trapped) with a little sign that says, “Help!”.Put a straw in a bottle of syrup, so it looks like the elf is drinking it.Wrap the elf up in a washcloth (like a blanket) and hide them in the refrigerator or freezer.Some of my favorite, non-messy, and super easy ideas are… (I set a “move the elf” alarm on my phone to avoid this, but…it still sometimes happens.) So maybe those elves don’t have time for a long, drawn-out scene. There are also elves who get back to your house after reporting to Santa…at the last minute. Now, not everyone has an elf who’s mischievous…right? I mean, some elves just love to visit their families - but they don’t make huge messes that you have to clean up! Have the elf put fake moustaches on everyone in a family photo, while he’s sitting nearby with his own fake moustache! Mama Cheaps has a fun quarantine kit for your magical elf.Have your elf make a sandwich by putting him on the counter with two pieces of bread covered with sugar sprinkles.Use some of the free printables from Living Locurto! Our favorite? A doctor’s note saying the elf can’t move for a few days! Ha!.Elves playing tic-tac-toe with big marshmallows.Elves taking a mini-marshmallow bath in the bathroom sink.Mini-pancakes with lots of syrup would be good. Have Elf surprise the kids with breakfast.Let Elf play board games with Barbie, Ken and any other playmates around.Elf overindulging on syrup, the elf drink of choice.Elf caught his whole body in the cookie jar.Put the elf on the counter with a piece of toast on top of him (like a blanket,) with a note that says, “It’s cold outside, but I’m feeling toasty.”.(We could tell it was the elf because he had green fingers.) Turned the ceiling fan on high so all the homework papers on the kitchen counter went flying everywhere.Christmas Eve night the elf hid several gifts and left notes about being good for the year.Took all the gift bows and put them all over the bathroom.Wrote on my son, and the bathroom mirror with a dry erase marker.Went fishing in the toilet for goldfish.We found the (Barbie) car down the street on the way to the bus stop. Went on a joyride with all the house stuffed animals.Left marshmallows all over the kitchen counters.Rolled the bedroom with holiday-colored streamers.Took a bath in the kitchen sink (all the soap and shampoo got moved to the kitchen).To make it “mischievous,” you could have the elves hide their gift with a clue to lead them to the prize. Sometimes the elves bring little gifts (candy, hair bows, pencils, paper, markers, etc).The elves love toilet papering our Christmas tree.Invited all the kids’ stuffed animals to a movie night (movies all over the place, popcorn everywhere).They even pulled a few candy canes off the tree. Our elves took a bag of candy (from Halloween) and sat under the tree eating candy and watching the lights.Anything your elf does will be met with happy smiles. The fun part for the kids is just finding where that mischievous elf ended up each day. I hope some of these Elf on the Shelf mischievous ideas help you out, like they did me! And remember - it doesn’t have to be hard (or messy!). My husband doesn’t help here, and my pleas to get the older boys involved is usually met by, “I don’t know what to do,” and a blank stare - so after a few nights, I get kinda stumped. The hardest part about the elves is contemplating what mischief they might get into (and then cleaning it up afterwards). The kids just really love waking up each morning and trying to figure out what sort of shenanigans their elves got into overnight. We have a house full of elves each December, and I have grown to enjoy it. I resisted welcoming elves into our home for years, but now that they are here - I have to admit, they can be kind of fun. Whether you use your own elf - or prefer an official Elf on the Shelf - these easy (and sometimes mischievous) ideas will help you survive the holiday season!
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