Simple and FUN Elf on the Shelf idea {PicMonkey}

 I'm curious...how do you feel about the Elf on the Shelf trend?

I personally love it.  We have never used our elf the way he is intended...as someone that watches to see if the kids are good and reports back to Santa.  Our elf is simply a cute little guy that does silly thing around the house and completely adds to the magic of the Christmas season.  My husband and I enjoy staying up and trying to think of creative things for Christopher to do.  However, I'm not gonna lie...3 years into it and its getting harder and harder to stay original and not do repeats.  

As I was trying to think up something fun I could do, I thought of editing some pictures on my FAVE site, PicMonkey.  The thing I loved most about this was it took me under 15 minutes and now I have these darling pictures of my kiddos.  I had Christopher sitting next to all the pictures with a sign that said "My best friends from the North Pole"

Avrie the Reindeer

Britton as Santa Claus

Cohen the Cute Cuddly Boy

Kendall the Snowgirl

Skylar the Elf

Too fun, am I right?!

Do you do Elf on the Shelf at your house?  If so...how do you find new ideas and PLEASE share them! ;)

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Our Elf is at it again!!

 One of our favorite traditions the last few years has been having our very own little Christopher Elf come and stay with us for the month of December!

The kids wake up every morning excited to see what kind of shenanigans he has been getting into and where they will find him that day.  It is just one simple thing we do to make Christmas even a tiny bit more magical.   It's actually a lot of fun for me and Paul too :)  We stay up late trying to think of funny things to do with him that the kids would love, and laugh ourselves silly over some of the ideas we come up with.

Here is where we find Christopher so far this year :)

Since we don't have any snow in Utah right now, Christopher had to get creative and use marshmallows to make his snowman.

This has been my favorite one so far.  Christopher got a hold of Santa's List and was checking it twice :)  I got this adorable printable from Lil Luna and just added my kids names to the Nice side.

Christopher is apparently pretty crafty...look at those paper snowflakes!!

Christopher and his pals having their weekly game night.

Finally we found our little daredevil elf repelling over our banister with our unused Christmas lights!

There are SO many great ideas out there, and these are just the few that we have done this year already.  I can't wait to see what else Christopher gets into this year!! ;)