My girls fill a jar with marbles when they do chores and tasks around the house. When their marble jar overflows, they get to buy something off their wishlist. At the top of Delia's list for the past few months has been an Elf on the Shelf.
Now, we don't do much with Santa, so our elf is pretty un-traditional. We read the book she came with once and decided to make our own rules. Our elf is named Jingles and each night in December, she has gotten the honor of having one of the 4 of us arrange her into a situation to surprise the rest of the family with in the morning.
These pictures obviously don't show all the mischief she's gotten into with the help of me, Dave, Ella and Delia, but they show some of our favorites:
This one was my VERY favorite, courtesy of Dave. He made the "Magical Magi" have Jingles in the wooden box when we woke up. Then when we left for school, she was gone! Later that night we found Jingles hanging off a decoration by the window. And this is why I love the way we play this...I would have never come up with something like this! I've been so delighted by the ideas my family have surprised me with!
The girls were not a fan of this one!
Can you tell: 1. This pose was left courtesy of Mom and 2. It came late in the Christmas Break when I just could not take any more arguing! Can't blame a mama for enlisting all available resources to save her sanity, can ya? :)
We're not making Jingles disappear for a year or anything. Delia spent her hard earned marbles buying this toy and probably wants to keep letting her have light saber fights with the evil poodle and vacations with the Barbies. But, we will take the next 11 months to think of new ways to set her up for next Christmas!
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