An Elf Tradition



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 I heard of the Elf on the Shelf a few years ago and thought it was a cute idea.  Now that my daughter is a little older I decided this would be a great year to introduce this tradition to our family.  If you are unfamiliar with The Elf on the Shelf you can check out the website. 

The idea is that your family adopts an Elf, which you name, then your Elf watches over your household during the day and at nighttime comes to life and reports back to Santa.  Here is where you can get creative and hide your Elf in new places every night so when the kiddos wake up in the morning they have to hunt for the Elf.  I love the idea of having the Elf do different things to keep the kids excited and interested.  I researched the Internet for some ideas and Allie and I came up with a few on our own as well.

Since the holidays tend to be extra busy I decided it would be great to share some of our Elf ideas with each other so we can have a game plan in place.  Here are a few suggestions!

Elf on the Shelf Ideas:

•  Elf makes breakfast and the kids wake up to Snow Covered Donuts (powdered donuts)
•  Elf makes snow angels on your kitchen table using flour or sugar
• Elf is found in the bathtub with new peppermint soap or bubbles
• Elf bakes cookies
• Elf wrapped presents and is found under the tree
• Elf is found on the dashboard of the car and when the car starts Christmas music is playing
• Elf is found in the freezer because he misses the North Pole
• Elf is found on the back of the toilet, when they lift the lid there are snowflake sprinkles in the water
• Elf is found in the refrigerator and the milk is green (food coloring)
• Elf brings new Christmas pajamas
• Elf is found playing a board game with a few other favorite fuzzy friends in the play room
• Elf is found coloring on a new Christmas coloring book he brought back from the North Pole
• Elf is found in the shoes and filled the shoes with Hershey Kisses
• Elf is found in the Christmas Tree with a new ornament
• Elf is found having a tea party with a few friends
• Elf is found in kitchen where he hung candy canes from all the cabinet hardware
• Elf is found with a few pictures of him playing out in the snow during the night
• Elf is found watching a Christmas movie on the portable DVD player (if you can time it right)

We would love to hear any other ideas or suggestions you have and happy "Elfing"!!!

I have had a few people ask where I bought my Elf on the Shelf, I purchased ours at Delaney's.  Oh and we named him Kringle, after Kristopher Kringle!  Don't forget to go to the official Elf on the Shelf website and register your elf and print out your adoption certificate and letter from Santa.

~SCS~

Please Put Your Pencils Down

Time's up!!! Pinterest Challenge time is over, and we can't wait to see what exciting, awesome, creative-why-didn't-we-think-of-that ideas everyone came up with.

We are already in Christmas mode over here at SCS and  couldn't wait to start our first Christmas projects for this year and the Pinterest Challenge gave us the little boost we needed.

We love the ladies over at YHL and Bower Power  for creating the Pinterest Challenge, it's such a good excuse to actually get some of those Pin's done! We went through our holiday appropriate Pin's and I (Allison)  decided to put my own twist on this one...



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I set out to Hobby Lobby and Michael's to purchase what I needed.  I knew  I didn't  need the numbers on ours since you can't see the house from the road and I knew I wanted red flowers.

The wreath was $4.00
Ribbon $1
Flowers $8
"S" $.99
Paint for the "S" $2.00 (found this at Michael's)
Hot Glue Gun-Free (already owned)

I first wrapped the ribbon around where I wanted it, making sure that it covered enough area for me to put on my "S" later and secured it with hot glue. I cut the flowers off the stem and arranged them how I wanted around the ribbon.  I then glued the flowers on making sure to put them close enough together so that you couldn't see the wreath underneath.  I painted my "S" with Martha Stewart's Glitter Acrylic found at Michael's. Once it was dry I glued it onto the ribbon.  I tied some ribbon around the top and done!  I can't wait to leave it hanging on my door after Thanksgiving!



For $15.99 I am very happy with the way it turned out, I don't think I could have found a similar, personalized wreath for less.

What did you guys come up with? Any yummy new recipes to share, easy DIY projects or maybe something Holiday related?

Stay tuned later in the week to see what other DIY craft the SCS completed from Pinterest for the challenge!

~SCS