Elf on the Shelf Arrival Ideas
Are you looking for a fresh new Elf on the Shelf Arrival? We’ve done some creative ones before…. the mailbox, a “hot air” balloon. But this one is my favorite. It’s simple and is a great way to launch your December with the Elf.
Welcome Back Elf on the Shelf!
We’re a little Elf crazy around here!
Now that we’ve been doing Elf antics for several years we have a bunch of fun Elf on the Shelf ideas. The problem is, it’s getting harder and harder to come up with new ones, especially the Elf on the Shelf ideas for arrival.
So we’re just repeating our favorite, low pressure Elf ideas now! This idea below is our all time favorite!
Just getting started with Elf on the Shelf? I recommend having a look at our Elf on the Shelf Guide first so you can decide how “deep” you want to dive into Elf-dom.
It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, It’s the Elf!
Elf on the Shelf Arrival By Plane
Supplies for the Elf Airplane:
- Poster-board
- Permanent Markers
- Hole punch
- Fishing Line or dental floss for hanging.
How to Make an Elf Airplane:
My husband made this airplane. He gets full credit.
- First, he folded a large sheet of poster-board and followed these simple airplane folding directions.
- Using permanent markers, he wrote “North Pole Express Mail” on both sides, drew a little Santa stamp he created on top, and then wrote “From: Santa” on the other side.
- Punch holes at the front and back under the wing.
You can draw anything you want on the Elf plane or leave it plain! I’m pretty sure he finished making this in 10 minutes.
The hardest part was hanging it. You could use dental floss or fishing line to hang it. We found it balanced best from our kitchen light.
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One year we made a trolly line that our Elf “Colors is his name” came in on bringing a little gift from the North Pole for my youngest daughter to open.. We took some fishing line and tied it to a window on the house, and had it attached to a tree across the yard.. It was for sure a great first arrival! She loved it, all of my kids did, and the 3 other ones are grown.. our elf is very wild, and spontaneous, My oldest 3 were always the first to run to see what Colors did every morning, they never knew what they were gonna wake up to, whether it was their bras, socks, and panties on the tree, or their faces drawn on with lipstick or washable markers (that doesn’t actually wash off lol so be careful with those) to hot chocolate jacuzzi’s with Barbie to my sons deer rug which actually had a plush deer head attached and colors put it in the freezer after he had shot it deer hunting.. lol We have had several elf babies, the first was a cabbage patch baby bc that’s all I could find at the time, but the kids still loved it.. I have had so much fun with this through the years, and now I’m sad to say all of my kids are to old for it now.. so enjoy it while it last, have fun and be creative bc one day your gonna wake up and all your kids be grown like mine and won’t have it anymore, until u have the grands come along which I have 2, and 2 on the way!! Yay!! My fun continues!! 😂🤣