Here's our most recent week of adventures with our scout elf, Rhino:
Day 15:
In the spirit of keeping all of these daily elf reveals from breaking the bank and to keep decorating our house for Christmas, Rhino made this snowman for the door to N's bedroom. So easy to do and my kiddo was properly amazed. Now whenever we have someone over to the house, he shows them the snowman immediately.
Daily Cost: Free!
Day 16:
I bought this adorable little gingerbread bank for absolutely no good reason a few years ago. I've used it to decorate in our living room, but it didn't "fit" with everything else. Last year we kept it in storage because I was afraid it would get broken. This year, N is finally old enough to have something that is cheap but breakable in his room. Rhino brought him some "coins", as N calls them, that spelled out a greeting for my little guy. N was excited for the money to go into his gingerbread bank and also that his elf is just so sweet.
Daily Cost: Just the change that was rolling around in the bottom of my purse :)
Day 17:
Chris's mom is here for Christmas so I thought it would be fun to both welcome her and fit in our daily elf siting. When we got back from the airport, we found Rhino sitting on the nightstand in our guest room with a little welcome sign. Naturally, this encouraged N to talk about all of the things that Rhino has been up to lately.
Daily Cost: Free!
Day 18:
Hiding our elf during the day has become almost as much of a challenge as deciding how stage the daily visit. We had an accidental elf reveal when Nathan found his during the day hiding spot. Oops! Luckily, N thought that the elf was helping him get a straw - so that works in my book!
Daily Cost: Free!
Day 19:
Breakfast is a big deal to my kid - big deal in the sense that he would eat cereal for every meal if we would let him. Imagine his delight when we found our elf in the cereal container? Germophobes, this one may not be for you.
Daily Cost: Free!
Day 20:
Pinterest has these adorable elf on the shelf set-ups where it looks like the elf is pooping out the Hershey kiss on the top of a blossom cookie. Well, I skimped on the baking and went straight for the chocolate by using some kisses and chocolate chip baking morels. Now my child thinks that elves poop chocolate. So glad he was too excited to notice the ridiculous amount of tape on our elf. How do people keep their elves propped up?!
Day 21:
I'm not sure that my son knows what a sack race is, but I thought that the pictures that I found online were too cute to pass up. In this race we have Rhino in the lead, followed by some Christmas characters, Captain Hook, Woody, and my husband's childhood favorite monkey rounds up the group. I used some of Nate's blocks to make a quick finish line and tried to pose Rhino the Elf with his hands up as he wins the race. Too cute!
Daily Cost: If you don't already have brown sandwich bags at home, you can find these at the dollar store!
We're in the home stretch for our Elf! Only a few more days before he goes back to Santa :)
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