I just got an elf on a shelf to want all do you guys do with it I’m new at it, but I have a couple of ideas, but I need more.
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Pinterest is my go to for ideas! Sooooo many to choose from!
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Also our elf is going to be “quarantined” in a jar for the first 2 weeks this year.
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Quarantine that elf in a mason jar
Pinterest has a good chunk of ideas, but overall each night after the kid(s) go to bed, just move the elf around. Sometimes when you get a cool idea you can do it, but most times it’s just the fun of finding the elf overall that gets kids excited.
My daughter’s barbies have homeitems, and so has a toilet; Well this toilet is perfect size for the elf. One day when she found her elf, it was set up like a little bathroom and it was giving her ‘Hershey kisses’. She still talks about it 
– We had her in the tub as well.
I sometimes would buy tiny gifts or candy, and pretend the elf hid them around the house with a rhyme/riddle that could be followed to where it was.
At the end, just before Christmas, we wrote a note on a whiteboard and pretty much pretended that she had ‘too much built up magic’ within her and that Santa said for that one day it would be okay if she played and was touched. My daughter LOVED this. The next day the elf went ‘home’.
I am just starting out too…our elf will come on Dec. 1st. I am part of a couple of Elf on the Shelf groups on Facebook and I have Google and been on Pintrest alot the past few days. There are ALOT of free printable props and super easy ideas that aren’t crazy. My daughter is 4 so we aren’t doing anything thats not age appropriate for her. Our elf will move around some, play with her toys and leave fun, crafty gifts for us to do during the day. There are also Elf Magic you can do…like putting elf dust on an egg and it turns into a Kinder Egg or burying pennies and they turn into chocolate coins.
When I set mine out I got the kids lil xmas candy and pjs and wrote a note from Santa saying that he left his friend to watch over us … the did lil fun things every day
Ive also put my elf on the ceiling fan hanging upside down… but my son turned the fan on and he got all tangled up… the next day i puy him in a cast… i thought it was funny. My son cried because he hurt the elf… mom fail.
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The kids is in quarantine due to traveling from the north pole for next 10 days up away from.everyone just watching kids from quarantine
Bury it in the backyard.
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Check out Pinterest. There were a ton of ideas on there 
Do yourself a favor and throw it in the trash before the kids see it or gift it to someone you hate 
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A friend of mine toilet papered her entire living room and had the elf hanging from the ceiling fan 2020 and he’s wasting toilet paper. Naughty elf!!!
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Google is full of them
Don’t quarantine your elves! How will they report back to Santa each night? They’d have to quarantine every time
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Quarantine the elf when it shows up! Gives you 2 whole weeks off! 
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I got a quarantine box! 
14 days of not moving him!! #momwin - after that- he may break his leg and not be able to move again…
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Pinterest ideas. I’ve gotten all of my best ones from Pinterest!
We don’t do the shenanigans, we just move ours around each night (or early morning ) to a different hiding spot
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Return it. We hate it.
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PinInterest is good but mine is in quarantine for 3 weeks
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Burn it. Lol jusss kidding
I made a quarantine box for my granddaughter’s this year she has to quarantine for 14 days
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Mine got Covid19 . He didn’t make it.
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Ours will be quarantined for 2 weeks … my kids are 12 and 16 so they won’t care, just did this yesterday
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This year ours us going to be Quarantined for 14 days.
I am also doing one at work for my residents to help spread holiday cheer.
First timer tip! Put him in jar with some sanitizer and wipes and quarantine him for 2 weeks…your welcome 
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Follow their fb page they have lots of iseas
My daughter’s favorite every year was the candy cane scavenger hunt. Elf sat in the empty box with a candy cane half eaten in its hands with a note to find the rest.
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My sons favourite from last year was when I did string from the curtain rail down to something lower, and elfies hands were sticky taped above the string so he was zip lining across the lounge room. He also had regular episodes with the super hero figurines, sometimes the super heroes won, sometimes elfie tied them together with a little rope
I got one last year and put him in different places each day after the kids went to bed so they’d wake up not knowing what Elvin the elf was up to next. Like I had him sitting at the table one day with a cookie, next day, it looked like he was trying to climb the Christmas tree. Kids would always ask how he got up there
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I hate that elf lmao I’d freeze him in a giant ice block and sit Elsa next to him… Sorry kids, he can’t move… FROZEN! LOL
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Honestly though, I used the Elf as an “excuse” to clean out Bitty Dude’s room/toys while at school…I left the elf with a note saying, “his elf buddies came to clean to make room for Santa.” Worked like a charm!
Look up ideas on pinterest you’ll find thousands
Put him in quarantine
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Fallowing! I also bought one brand new this year too!
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You stick him in a quarantine box and leave him for 2 weeks while you figure out epic shenanigans for him to do.
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Google has lots of ideas.
Pintrest has a ton of ideas
Stack a bunch of canned goods like he is trying to get somethimg from the counter
Hanging from a cieling fan
14 day quarantine when he arrives 
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Awe man I cant post a photo 
ain’t have so many pictures from each year we’ve participated!
Depends on age of kids… there are great ones online. My favorite my elf toilet papered the tree
I saw elf in quarantine box on newsthis morning
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My nei e kept getting on candy and cookies. Her elf hid the cookies and sat in empty cookie jar
Give it away as a White Elephant Gift at your company Christmas party.
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