Elf on a Shelf

You are going to have so much fun!!!! My sister and I are already planning to take a Saturday and plan the "crazy" things the elves are going to do this year. We have a boy and my sister has a girl.....I think they need to have a romance!! I think the kids need to find movie ticket stubs and pictures of the two elves together at the North Pole!! ROFL.
 
We got ours from Amazon too. I don't believe in leaving the house if I don't have to. :)
 
Kjersti said:
You are going to have so much fun!!!! My sister and I are already planning to take a Saturday and plan the "crazy" things the elves are going to do this year. We have a boy and my sister has a girl.....I think they need to have a romance!! I think the kids need to find movie ticket stubs and pictures of the two elves together at the North Pole!! ROFL.
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Oh gosh! I can't wait Kjersti. I was so envious of everyone doing it last year but I was late to the party and didn't want to start late. So I decided to wait.

I need to find the threads that talked about it last year so I can get ideas. I need to start my planning now.
 
Barnes and Noble here... I think it was around Thanksgiving that they had a coupon online where it was 25% off.
 
has anyone used or seen the Christopher Pop-In-Kins version? It looks like the exact same idea...just a different "brand"
 
and is it just me or have prices for these things SKYROCKETED in the last month? Yikes! I should have bought one in may!
 
k23m said:
has anyone used or seen the Christopher Pop-In-Kins version? It looks like the exact same idea...just a different "brand"
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Aww.....I like him! I think maybe Tracy Ducar might have used him? I can't remember but I thought she had a little different one.
 
ok what is Elf on a Shelf? Is there a photo of one that I can see?

Never mind. I googled it. Need to get one for our home.
 
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Beebo said:
ok what is Elf on a Shelf? Is there a photo of one that I can see?

Never mind. I googled it. Need to get one for our home.
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They are just adorable! I will try to find stuff from last year. The community here shared lots of pics and ideas and it was wonderful to see!
 
Kjersti said:
You are going to have so much fun!!!! My sister and I are already planning to take a Saturday and plan the "crazy" things the elves are going to do this year. We have a boy and my sister has a girl.....I think they need to have a romance!! I think the kids need to find movie ticket stubs and pictures of the two elves together at the North Pole!! ROFL.
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Ok, this is like the cutest idea ever. :wub: Is it wrong that I totally wish someone would do an Elf on the Shelf for me? :D
 
We don't use the traditional Elf from the kit... We have two elves that visit, one to look after each child. They get in to so much mischief. They come a few times a year, in fact. My daughter turned 10 this summer and broke down crying when she thought they weren't going to visit for her birthday!

Here are ours:

 
We got ours from a locally owned Hallmark licensed shop. It was about $30. I broke down and bought the Elf on a Shelf DVD also. My daughter watches it pretty much every day, still! And the video does a pretty good job explaining stuff, so watch it (or read the book that comes with the Elf) first before answering your kids questions because I almost messed it up on them! lol. THe video does have an Elf go to a book store "where families adopt elves" so if you see them in your local shops at Christmastime (or if you want to adopt your elf with the kids there) you don't get into a pickle :)
 
neenee said:
Aww.....I like him! I think maybe Tracy Ducar might have used him? I can't remember but I thought she had a little different one.
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Yep! We have Christopher. I've been pinning new ideas this year because I want him to do different things :)
 
We got Christopher too (I think it was Tracy that told me which one she got and helped me in my decision of which one to get). He's heavier, but imo - much cuter :) And I started mid-December, and don't regret it. I thought I would just wait - but then I figured 10 days was better than none (and it was SO worth it).

Not only that - but all the elves were on sale - so I got mine for a steal. Just a thought - if y'all don't want to have to come up with a month of things to do - you can wait till they go on sale and get one a little ways into December :)
 
rachaelsscraps said:
We got ours from a locally owned Hallmark licensed shop. It was about $30. I broke down and bought the Elf on a Shelf DVD also. My daughter watches it pretty much every day, still! And the video does a pretty good job explaining stuff, so watch it (or read the book that comes with the Elf) first before answering your kids questions because I almost messed it up on them! lol. THe video does have an Elf go to a book store "where families adopt elves" so if you see them in your local shops at Christmastime (or if you want to adopt your elf with the kids there) you don't get into a pickle :)
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I made up my own documentation that arrived with the elves. They are from the North Pole Elf Division as part of Operation Child Watch. They came with biographies, a letter to the children explaining how they got on the list to receive an elf, etc. It was a lot of fun. :) My daughter's friends were all jealous. LOL We had a sleepover and they tied the elves up and put them in the room they were sleeping in. The next morning the elves were untied (with a trail of ribbon leading the girls to the Christmas tree in the next room) and had climbed the tree and put an elf hat at the top over the star. The girls got a huge kick out of that and truly believed they were real after that. I mean, after all, they would have HEARD a human scampering about, right? ;)

Last year for Christmas the elves left the kids a Shutterfly book of their adventures the previous December. It was so much fun. Here's a link to the book if you'd like to check it out. The first pages show the paperwork that came with them. Ignore the fact that it says it was shared by Lupe G. I couldn't let my kids see my name on it anywhere!!

Elf Adventures Book
 
Jen22 said:
We got Christopher too (I think it was Tracy that told me which one she got and helped me in my decision of which one to get). He's heavier, but imo - much cuter :) And I started mid-December, and don't regret it. I thought I would just wait - but then I figured 10 days was better than none (and it was SO worth it).

Not only that - but all the elves were on sale - so I got mine for a steal. Just a thought - if y'all don't want to have to come up with a month of things to do - you can wait till they go on sale and get one a little ways into December :)
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Christopher is really cute. I can't do some of the things with ours that can be done with him. I needed 2 though, boy and girl. LOL

I think it was Traci Reed that had some really cute ones last year that I loved. I could never find them in my area though.

I'd love to get a different set but my kids are SO attached to theirs. I'm thinking of buying a set and using them at school, letting them hang out in different areas checking out the classrooms. Good excuse to buy more elves. ;) I love elves!
 
here is mine......
http://pinterest.com/nun69/elf-on-the-shelf/

and I did all kinds of things last year and my 11 y/o was just as happy to look for him every morning as my 6 y/o was! I also wrote a letter to each one of them a few days before Christmas and put it in their stockings that were hanging with a pair of reindeer headbands...I put specific little details in each one (like Ben watchign ojut for his little sister and Abby being a little naughty so she had to straighten up so she wouldn't be on the naughty list)......

I goit mine at the Hallmark store at the last minute after everyone started posting about it last year and I am so glad I did...totally thinking about getting them for my BIl's family to do this year!
 
We have Christopher also. I think he is cute.

I got him from Amazon and I paid over $20 for him. And, yes, you can sort of pose his arms and legs like they are in the picture.
 
Nettio said:
Ok, this is like the cutest idea ever. :wub: Is it wrong that I totally wish someone would do an Elf on the Shelf for me? :D
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Would your husband do Elf on the Shelf for you? Or could you pose the elf one day and he do the next?
 
Sherri Tierney said:
Christopher is really cute. I can't do some of the things with ours that can be done with him. I needed 2 though, boy and girl. LOL

I think it was Traci Reed that had some really cute ones last year that I loved. I could never find them in my area though.

I'd love to get a different set but my kids are SO attached to theirs. I'm thinking of buying a set and using them at school, letting them hang out in different areas checking out the classrooms. Good excuse to buy more elves. ;) I love elves!
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Did you know that Amazon has a Christina Marie elf like Christopher if you want a boy and girl version of that kind? Just a heads up though, apparently her story says that a cat comes with her but there is no cat in the set.
 
Too cute! I did not know about her. At this point we're stuck with the two we have (named Ivy and Jolly) but I might have a few elf friends visit this winter if I can find some good deals. ;)
 
so if you guys have more than 1 kid do you do only 1 elf, or an elf for each child? I am thinking of doing an elf for each child this year :)
 
I want to do it this year but I don't know if Kennedy is still too young to understand. I think I may have to put it off for another year.
 
oh my kids were just talking about their elves today :) we have two girl elves like this :

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(from here)

i love that they are stuffed b/c the kids love to play with them and i think they are cute :)
 
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