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Elf on the Shelf craft ideas you can do the night before!

Elf on the Shelf craft ideas you can do the night before!

Its that time of year again when that pesky little elf on the shelf is back! If you are stuck for elf ideas ideas this year try these different Elf on the Shelf ideas to do easily at home. These are Elf on the Shelf craft ideas for children that you can pop out the night before. Some of these are ideas on Christmas themed crafts what to make with your children and some are free printable ideas for you to set up. There are so many crafty printables available for Elves and making each morning different needn’t be a hard task anymore.

Elf on the Shelf Craft Ideas and free Printable’s and Elf on the Shelf Activities for kids

50 Easy Elf on the Shelf ideas To make

Emma at Little miss Eden Rose has complied 50 Easy Elf on the Shelf ideas. This includes a 24 day planner including free elf printables to download and make the Christmas elves as easy as possible. These 50 easy Elf on the Shelf ideas are super easy and simple to set up and they do not require lots of props to purchase. Lots of the ideas are stuff found in the home and easy craft activities. You can also print her free Elf on the on the Shelf arrival poem.

50 Free elf on the shelf ideas and printables

Elf on the Shelf Colouring in page

Print off one of these cool Elf on the shelf colouring pages to leave with the elves. Great fun to colour in and you can print as many as you want!

Elf on the Shelf Colouring in page For elf craft activities.

Elf on the Shelf Door Cut File

Make your own Elf house with this cute Elf door. If you have a cutting machine you can make this Elf door for them for their arrival. The beauty of these doors is that if you print them on magnetic printable paper you can move them around the house. Or print onto card or printable vinyl to attach to skirting boards or walls. Now your elf has a house you can even make it with the kids too.

Elf on the shelf door SVG

Elf on the Shelf SVGs for Crafts

Try one of these Elf on the Shelf SVG’s for all of your Christmassy Elf crafts. There is an Elf on the Shelf Im back SVG which is great for scrapbooking, Vinyl projects or card crafts. You could even pop the Elf SVG on to a childs T-shirt for the first day day of the elf’s return. There is also a layered version of the Elf SVG for card Cricut crafts and Elf on the shelf printable Mini Elves for stickers!

Elf on the Shelf printable countdown stickers

These are another great idea for the first day of the Elf on the shelf. These printable Elf stickers help countdown the days and sleeps till Christmas. Your child can make a mini book with all of the stickers in with photos from each day.

Printable elf on the shelf sleeps to Santa stickers

Make your child’s name in Elf Letters

Use these fab Elf colouring in letters to make your Child’s name to colour in this Christmas. Your children can have their own personalised colouring in elf page with these fabulous letters and they are so easy to print.

 Make your child’s name in Elf Letters With coloring in pages

About Donna Vallance

Donna Vallance is a crafty mum of two boys. She loves everything to do with the arts and crafting and there are not many crafts she has not tried. Donna writes over at likelovedo which is her blog featuring her crafts as well as travel, London life and Theatre. There is nothing she likes more than sharing her love of designing craft projects as well as printables and cut files and sharing them with her readers.