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Christmas Eve Surprise
For their final feat of the season, your Scout Elf may bring your children one last present to say thanks for such a wonderful holiday! Your elf loves to pack a Christmas Eve box with goodies like PJs, candy, games or toys.
TL;DR? The Elf on the Shelf leaves on Christmas Eve. Time to clear out, and make room for the big guy in the red suit to make his visit. There are a few different ways to say goodbye to your family's Elf.
Santa advises that no family member touch their Elf on the Shelf, but he does describe a few rare instances when an adult may use tongs or potholders to help an elf in an urgent situation. Parents: read on to learn about special, few and far between cases where emergency help will be required.
The first and most important rule is that you must NOT touch your Elf. If you do, they will lose all their magic - and nobody wants that to happen. When scout elves lose their magic, they can't go about their Christmas duties.
Elf on the Shelf is a Christmas tradition that sees parents moving an Elf on the Shelf (also known as a "Scout Elf") around the house every day to keep an eye on children ahead of Santa's visit.
The night before Christmas, the elf flies off one last time to spend the year with Santa until reappearing next season. Every night, a parent hides the elf in a new place.
Sprinkle some cinnamon near the Elf. Cinnamon is like Elf vitamins and will help your elf get back to the North Pole and make a full recovery! The Elf will return tomorrow all recovered. Sing your Elf a Christmas carol with all of the family.
Do Elf Pets move every night? Since children are encouraged to love and cuddle with Elf Pets, they don't need to move on their own as the children will move them. So, no, they don't move every night.
By age eight, kids begin to acknowledge the unlikeliness of one man travelling the world in a single night. The good news? If you started the tradition of Elf on the Shelf in your household, you can likely send the elf into early retirement around your child's eighth Christmas.
According to The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition, the night before Christmas, an elf's job comes to an end. On December 24, most Scout Elves say farewell to their families and fly back to the North Pole following Santa's sleigh.
From family to family, each Elf Pets® can differ, but most live with their families year round. Then, children can continue to hug and play with their Elf Pets® as often as they want for as long as they want.
Elves need to wait until everyone is asleep before they can move around. If there was too much activity around the house last night, perhaps your elf only had time to get to the North Pole and back, but not enough time to find a new position. Make sure you get to bed early tonight to help them out!
On Christmas day, have a letter from your elf explaining that this is the last year they will spend with your family because, now that your child is X years old, it's time for the elf to work at the North Pole full time. Allison Andrews used this technique when it was time for her family's elf, Jupiter, to move on.
But, accidents happen. In the event that a human hand accidentally grazes your family's beloved scout elf, you'll need to know what to do if your Elf on the Shelf is touched. Per official Elf on the Shelf lore, a touched Scout Elf loses their magic.
If you're willing to wake up early in the morning, freeze your Elf in a cup of water overnight. In the morning, take the new Elf ice cube out of the cup and set it on the freezer rack or door shelf. You have no mess and a fun ice-themed set up for the day!
Your Scout Elf may need an extra day or two to digest his or her holiday treats and get back into tip-top flying shape before returning. A snowstorm held them up. It's not easy to drive in the snow—much less fly!
Instead of actual swear words, Buddy and the other elves use completely different insults that they have created at the North Pole. Instead of saying something a lot more offensive, the phrase “son of a nutcracker” is used in its place.
Since the elf comes back to your home every day, he has to be put in a different spot every morning leading up to Christmas. The only rule for children is that they can't touch their elf or else the magic might disappear.
An elf does not want to report a child's bad behavior to Santa. Instead of reporting naughty behavior, they will stay in their spot for a few days until there is something nice to report to Santa. If you want your elf to move, you better be good!
“Are Mom and Dad really Santa?” We know that you want to know the answer and we had to give it careful thought to know just what to say. The answer is no. We are not Santa. There is no one, single Santa.