Christmas Eve Elves

(A little late in posting this…)

Having two munchkins and a third on the way, I thought it was about time we had some family traditions at Christmas. I saw something on Twitter about the Christmas Eve elves and thought we should do it.

Basically, the elves visit at the start of December and watch on our little people to make sure they’re behaving and stay on Santa’s good list. We moved them around the house every few nights by way of saying they’d been out to see Santa. I’m not sure Oliver believed us.

I also made some sacks for the Elves with my new sewing machine.

We hung them out on the night of the 23rd so the elves would give us all some presents:

– new pyjamas. With “magic elf thread” so they would help us all sleep on Christmas eve and not stay up all night saying, “has he been?”. We had a 50% success rate there.

– DVDs to watch in the day in our new pyjamas

– New slippers for mummy and daddy.

We used green tissue paper so it was all different to the wrapping paper from Santa. The kids loved it. It was quite sweet and made for a lot of fun.

We also painted a plain white plate and left the elves some milk and biscuits to say thank you.

It made the whole Christmas period feel a bit longer and a bit more special. I’ll just have to sew another bag for next year when no. 3 arrives.