It’s December already and so is the time for Santa’s elves to arrive. These lovable characters are too cute to find place in homes before Christmas. As we know they are believed to be Santa’s helpers who every night report to Santa about kids’ daily activities. So just they being around, kids try to put up their best behaviour so that they are on Santa’s nice list.

There can be nothing more interesting than to make your own elf and perch it at different spots each morning. Kids can simply have fun spotting them. Here is a simple DIY for these cute North Pole characters.

Materials required:

Plain sheets of paper
Play dough (red, white)
Doll head
Scissors
Paint (red), paint brush
Knife
Glue
Rolling pin

Directions:

1. Using plain sheets of paper, make body of the shelf in form of a cylinder. Make paper tubes for hands (and pass them through the holes from the cylinder). Similarly, make the paper tubes for legs and stick it to the body using glue.

2. Using paper sheets, make a cone for the cap and a circle for its neck accessory and trim its edges to make it spiky.

3. Paint the body in red and its cap in red and white.

4. Fix the accessories and the doll head using glue.

5. Now taking a rolling pin, flatten the red play dough and cut it into rectangles to cover its body. Also, make white gloves with white play dough.

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Have a happy time doing your own elf on the shelf!