Elf on the Shelf on the Road

Elf on the Shelf...on the Road

Christmas is coming and you want to take Elf on the shelf on the road!  All you other fun lovin’ families (crazy, lovers of torture and all that) that love seeing your kids faces light up, with the mischief these little guys get up to each night of December counting down to Christmas.  This post hopefully relieves some of your frustration of having to come up with ideas while on the road travelling this Christmas.

At the very least you will have a chuckle at what Miss Stephanie Elf got up to last year while we were fulltime on the road travelling.

 

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Planning is important

I did a lot of planning prior to going, including printing off in colour all photos that would be used, jokes, snow flake instructions with special message and outfits from various sites which I will do my best to credit.

I then glued them onto an A4 piece of white cardboard and cut them out.  This helped in making sure they lasted the distance while travelling. The small pieces all got put in a ziplock bag. The A4 colour pages all went in a manilla folder which I stapled the sides up and we hid it in the wardrobe.

I had an A4 page that had the 24 days and the different setups required for each day.  If a movie was required before a certain one (ie. Gullivers travels) or specific joke card, I mentioned it there.

All props were bought in advance and hidden in folder or container in same cupboard.

Marshmallows, shortbread cookies, coloured fruit tic tacs, skewers ect. Green and red m&ms were hidden in vehicle waeco.  I had the emergency items like sticky tape, ribbon, wire ties, blue tac, scissors and the like in a shoe box ready for easy access (normally in the dark).

Here is the list and where possible the sites for access to the printables.

All jokes will be found here from moms and munchkins

Let us begin 24 nights of planning, fun, late finishes or early starts, magic and excitement.....

Night 1.

Lego chair (made it and Miss B loved it so it had upgrades and more and more bling added

to it especially for Stephanie Elf) Minecraft santa cube filled with red green fruit tic tacs (woolworths)

Night 2.

sELFies with all her friends and sisters dog, put together in publisher and printed off ready

Night 3.

Sporting her gorgeous Express yoursELF shirt (bought on an elf on shelf facebook group), bought express yourself tictacs (they have little faces on them and say express yourself on box) and express yourself positive affirmations / messages which I blue tac on the van wall using express yourself positive affirmations in google search

Night 4.

Miss Stephanie Elf was tied down by lego men (not creepy I swear!) we watched gullivers travels the night before 😊used cotton as it was easy. I prepped it in advance and hid in cupboard.

Night 5.

Naughty Elf choc dropped on top of shortbread cookies!  (choc chips only just as funny)

Night 6.

Stephanie Elf was planning a vacation she checked out trip advisor, had passport (we had from our little passport subscription), destination ideas from Miss B explorer cards (the woolworths cards) printed out a 2  suitcases which I constructed as a 3D suitcase ready.

Night 7.

Reading a miniature Elf on the Shelf book to all Miss B's teddies (made before I left) make sure you put it on cardboard makes a big difference

Night 8.

Wrapped in toilet paper with a joke "why do mummies enjoy Christmas? Because of all the wrapping!" (Jokes printables here)

Night 9.

Lifting weights, marshmallow on cut skewer

Night 10.

Making snow flakes and instructions for making her own

Night 11.

Connect 4 with Rosie

Night 12.

Captain America (watched movie the night before) Printable here

Night 13.

Elf Emoji Eggs (Draw emoji faces on egg shells)

Night 14.

Roasting Rosie (Our daughters toy bear) accompanied by cut up potatoes and pumpkin

Night 15.

Elf wrapped up like present with jokes and tic tacs

Night 16.

Fishing with mums toothbrush in toilet (still talking about it)  I knew I needed a new toothbrush so kept it longer than normal ready for this Elf antic, but boy did Miss B love that Stephanie got away with this!

Night 17.

Rocketship (printable available here)

Your nearly there...

Night 18.

Rosie's revenge! Rosie eating Miss Stephanie as a hotdog (revenge for trying to Roast Rosie see Night 14)

Night 19. 

Festive scrabble all Christmassy words (easy to set up leave in a cupboard and bring out at night time) I took a photo of pre set up board in case they got messed up being hidden I did not have to be a literary wizard in the middle of the night, in the dark!

Night 20. 

Miss Stephanie is Spiderman! We watched the movie night before, Miss B loved this one! (Printable here)

Night 21. 

Marshmallow Bath - As we are travelling we just used a Sistema container, put Stephanie in, filled with marshmallows, rubber band her hands behind head

Night 22. 

'Mooning' in amongst strange shaped melons we were given from french backpackers - Boy did this get a laugh!! You could use oranges just as funny.

Night 23.

Ziplining with a candy cane on the Christmas lights under awning (risky depending on where you are camping/travelling as they may get stolen)

Night 24. 

Shoved headfirst in a box of sultanas by 'Snowy' (our daughters toy snow leopard) peeking out the whole in the box (many people do this with cereal boxes ect and sprinkle some around whole they pushed out of.

Night 25. (HOORAY, you made it!) 

Merry Christmas in red and green M&M's - everybody loves chocolate so nice and easy to finish (by the glow of the mobile phone but hey - the last night!!)

Hope this has helped other camping, full time travelling families for ideas for Elf on the Shelf on the Road.  If you still don't have your own mischievous Elf on the Shelf - Get yours here (Don't forget to use the code 'Cake' for a 10% discount!