Christmas elves cooking biscuits
Elves cooking biscuits! Tinkles and Ginger were sitting on the kitchen bench this morning, having apparently made a batch of biscuits!
The elves used their own mixer, spoon, rolling pin and biscuits tray, but also got out our mixing bowl and Christmas spoons so we took that as a hint to also cook some biscuits today! We made some passionfruit Christmas biscuits and they are yummy! They will be a nice snack for our last week of school lunches, if I can keep everyone from eating them all today!
Have your elves encouraged you to do some Christmas activity this year?
Christmas elf hygiene!
This morning the kids found our Christmas elves pretty quickly as they are in the bathroom cupboard (door open) as Tinkles cleans Ginger’s teeth! It’s good to know that elf hygiene includes cleaning teeth 🙂
The top part of an electric toothbrush makes a good size toothbrush for Tinkles to hold!
While I think it’s great after all those doughnuts and a sugary shopping list, the kids are a bit perturbed at cleaning Ginger’s teeth for 24 hours straight! There is good hygiene and then there is excessive cleaning…
I wonder if Ginger will start singing “All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth” at some point?
Gone fishin’!
Today we found our Christmas elves had gone fishin’!
Tinkles and Ginger were both istting by the blue
And later found Tinkles proudly sitting in the herb garden with the fish she caught! Is she planning basil and tomato with her fish dinner tonight I wonder?!
Elves at a campfire
Obviously the Christmas elves enjoyed their camping trip as today we found Tinkles at a campfire, toasting a marshmallow beside their tent!
Meanwhile, Ginger was in the tent having a nap in the sleeping bag…
Have you seen your elves at a campfire? Or maybe they toasted a marshmallow some other way?
An elf library
Christmas books and reading them with your family is a great element of Christmas.
A number of people do a book advent calendar – like we did last year with a daily book.
However, I came across a new idea called an Elf Library. By having lots of Christmas books on display, the elves have a little home to enjoy between their antics and everyone is reminded to read Christmas books! I think Fleur has come up with a great idea and she was happy to share the idea and her photos with us.
We have reviewed quite a few of those books, but there are certainly some others there we have yet to try! What are your family’s favourite Christmas books?
The books shown here include:
- Christmas Wombat
- Pig the Elf
- The twelve dogs of Christmas by Alison Ritchie
- There was an old bloke who swallowed a present
- All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth
- There is a monster under my Christmas tree who farts
- Santa
- Rudey’s windy Christmas
- Amelia’s Christmas wish
- Skylar and the Christmas elves
- Spot’s Christmas
- Smudger the dog saves Christmas
- There was an old lady who swallowed a star
- How Santa lost his job
- Santa’s …
- The twelve dogs of Christmas (Kevin Whitlark)
- The twelve cats of Christmas (Kevin Witlark)
- Aussie Jingle Bells
- Santa comes to Bendigo
- Bluey Hooray it’s Christmas
Christmas elves and sugary shopping!
So it appears Tinkles and Ginger got hungry last night, or just decided they wanted to have a party, as they have written a shopping list for some sugary shopping, and flicked through some sweet and chocolate recipes overnight.
Ginger sitting a in a star biscuit cutter may also be a hint towards some Christmas cooking!
The elves’ shopping list reads – lollies, chocolate, ice-cream, gingerbread, candy canes and Smarties (I have used correct spelling to make it easier to read! The elves are still learning their spelling, as this list clearly shows!)
I’m sure most kids would be happy for that sugary shopping trip, but what do you think the odds are of us following Tinkles’ list today? However, there is some chance of making a rich walnut fudge or cherry chocolate pudding soon!
Taking Santa photos
I really enjoyed the delight my daughter showed this morning when she found Tinkles taking Santa photos of her baby and Ginger, the baby elf!
Like yesterday, Santa was holding Ginger for the photo, posing beside the baby in our house, with tinsel at their feet – it is actually a cute Santa photo (and not a mask in sight!) I would have loved a Santa photo this cure for my own children as babies!
Tinkles’ camera looks to be a good one – it even has a flash but that was too hard to get photos of!
What was your elf up to this morning?
Elves decorating the Christmas tree
This morning Tinkles was in a container of Christmas baubles (as she liked my decorating and wanted to add to my part of the tree, according to my son!)…
But after school we noticed that Tinkles was holding two baubles and sitting in our Christmas tree!
Well it’s nice that Tinkles is interested in decorating the Christmas tree as my kids are less enthusiastic than they once were!
Meanwhile, Ginger was sitting in Santa’s arms under the tree… I guess they were supervising Tinkles decorating the tree!
Dear Santa, Tinkles reads a book
This morning we found Tinkles sitting in a serving bowl reading Dear Santa 🙂
Dear Santa is a lift the flap book by Rod Campbell that goes through potential gifts in the process of finding the perfect present. We’ve had this book for a while now and still enjoy it! I wonder if Tinkles is planning what to add to her own Dear Santa present list...
There is always extra excitement when Ginger is not with Tinkles, as we still have the challenge of finding our other Christmas elf! However, she was quickly found amongst a colourful display of Gerberas.
How often do you have to search for multiple Christmas elves in separate hiding spots?
Christmas elves camping!
This morning we found Tinkles and Gingers outside the back door on our back deck again, snuggled up together in a sleeping bag in their tent!
And like good little elves, they even took their own toilet paper with them!
It is making us all itch to go camping soon, though!
Tinkles playing pandemic
It was easy to find our Christmas elves, Tinkles and Ginger, this morning as they were on the floor in the family room, and pretty hard to miss! Tinkles was playing Pandemic with some friends, with quite a few infections around the world.
Meanwhile, Ginger the baby elf was napping in the game box, wrapped in a face mask instead of a blanket!
We were impressed to see that Sydney had the only research centre and no outbreaks!
Playing Pandemic
My son loves board games, especially those that require some strategy and thought. For his birthday this year, he received the game Pandemic which obviously fits 2020… However, Pandemic was first released in 2008 so is not COVID-19 related – apparently it was based on the SARS outbreak in 2002.
The game is based on four viruses spreading through the world, with two to four players trying to find a cure before the outbreaks take over. Each player has a specific role (Tinkles was the medic whilst the dolls were a scientist and a contingency planner) and they have to work together to fight the outbreaks and look for a cure. I love that this game means everyone wins – or everyone loses.
Playing Pandemic is fun and requires thought and strategy. It teaches some geography as well as terms like pandemic, immunity, vaccines and research.
There have been some expansions to the game (shhh, my son may just get one of these for Christmas!) – On the Brink (the first and most popular) and State of Emergency add more players and options – and there are some alternative scenarios available, too. Z-Man Games have also created some spin off games such as Pandemic Legacy, Pandemic Hot Zone (released July 2020 and based in North America), the Fall of Rome and Contagion (a card based version).
Elves in Spoonville
Do your elves sometimes hide or play outside of your house?
Generally, our Christmas elves, Tinkles and Ginger, can be found in our home – there was the one exception when Tinkles was on the cubby roof! – so it did take a while for the elves to be found this morning… They were sitting in a plant pot just outside our back door with their own Christmassy version of Spoonville!
Just as well there is no rain expected today, my son said!
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