Elf on the Shelf: Magic Size It FREE Printable

Have your elves ever wanted things to be "just their size?"  This easy printable is great for "making" Oreos or M&Ms go from "regular size" to "minis."

Check out all of my other Elf on the Shelf ideas and printables, too!
You can buy ALL of my Elf on the Shelf printables for easy download in the store on the right side of the page.

As always, I encourage you to create some of the "super special" Elf surprises, and then trade them with your friends and neighbors so that the joy (and efforts) are shared!!!

By all means, share this, pin it, print it, blog about it, but please link back to this post. 

Elf on the Shelf: Staying Alive Disco Party in Quarantine Printable

Let's face it, we're all getting through this the best we can.  Our elves, Buddy Kringle and Football, decided to make light of it all and have a 70's Disco Party to celebrate "Stayin' Alive!"  If you have some of the little Disco ball ornaments, use them! Feel free to line the dance floor with walls of toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and disinfecting wipes.

Here is the printable backdrop.

Check out all of my other Elf on the Shelf ideas and printables, too!
You can buy ALL of my Elf on the Shelf printables for easy download in the store on the right side of the page.

As always, I encourage you to create some of the "super special" Elf surprises, and then trade them with your friends and neighbors so that the joy (and efforts) are shared!!!

By all means, share this, pin it, print it, blog about it, but please link back to this post. 

Elf on the Shelf: The Floor Is Lava! Free Printable

Tape the volcano to a wall. You have red tissue paper on hand already for your Christmas wrapping, so crumple up a couple of pieces and place them next to the volcano.  Your elf can be in the Christmas tree, on top of furniture over the tissue paper, taped to the wall, or strung from the ceiling to avoid the lava.

Get the volcano printable here.

Check out all of my other Elf on the Shelf ideas and printables, too!
You can buy ALL of my Elf on the Shelf printables for easy download in the store on the right side of the page.

As always, I encourage you to create some of the "super special" Elf surprises, and then trade them with your friends and neighbors so that the joy (and efforts) are shared!!!

By all means, share this, pin it, print it, blog about it, but please link back to this post. 

Peanuts Themed Christmas Hallway

Yes, I've been doing Peanuts Gang inspired bulletin boards for the main entry hallway at our elementary school, but the 4th grade teachers wanted their entire hallway to be transformed.  So this covers from the floor to the top of their bulletin boards. The 3 scenes cover three huge walls.  It's *almost* like you're in the story with the characters.  Again, I used an old school hand-rolling die cut machine for the 1" circle snow, snowflakes, and the larger yellow string light circles.  Everything else was done by hand.  

"Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown!"

Charlie Brown and Linus in the Tree Farm

Lucy offering advice to Charlie Brown

Ice skating on the pond

 

Peanuts Themed Christmas Bulletin Board

By now, you may have seen my Halloween or Thanksgiving Peanuts-inspired bulletin boards. Here is the same bulletin board decorated for December with Charlie Brown and the gang.  The blue and purple trees were cut with the school's VariQuest machine.  I used the old hand-rolled die cut machine for the white 1" snow dots and the lightbulbs for the dog house.  The characters were all done by hand in my living room.  I layered pieces of paper together to make each one before drawing on their faces.

The 4th grade teachers loved this so much that they asked me to decorate their hallway with a similar theme.  So I'll be back to share the full hallway decked out with the gang. 

 

Christmas at My House

Welcome to our home!  This is our living room dressed up for Christmas.  We have (what I refer to as) our "Family Tree" in the living room.  These ornaments have been collected over the years.  We have ornaments on this tree from both mine and my husband's childhood, and we add an ornament for each person in our family every year.  When we take vacations, we pick up ornaments as a reminder of our time together.  If you look closely, you'll find Mickey Mouse dressed kind of like Davy Crockett from our time at Disney World's Fort Wilderness, a rocking horse from my 2nd Christmas, Lucy on a jingle bell from our annual trip to see ICE! at the Gaylord, a gondola from a summer trip to Estes Park, Colorado, a black and white hand-painted skyline from our trip to Paris, and this year's gold Aspen leaf from our time at the Grand Canyon this summer.  This tree tells the story of our family, and I LOVE IT!

I made our Christmas stockings, and yes, I am well aware that they are huge.  I made each family in our extended family a set of stockings, and they are all big.  We don't really do gifts for the adults, so our stockings ARE our Christmas gifts.

If you follow my Fairy Godmother of Family Travel Facebook page, then you also know about the hand-painted Santa that resides on our mantel that was a gift from a sweet client.

 We have a small Christmas village on our console beneath our television in the living room.  I have a friend who has a truly INCREDIBLE Christmas village, and it's a sight to behold.  Ours is sweet, and I like it.  There's a "live" nativity scene, ice skating rink, pictures with Santa in the gazebo, working streetlights, and a few other fun elements besides the lights in the village homes and buildings.

 This is our formal dining room.  We have Santas throughout the house at Christmas, and you'll find 2 hiding in here.  On the formal tree, you'll also find some sentimental ornaments that I have received from friends at gift exchanges.

I love the Franklin Iron Works 30" Wide Rust Candelabra Chandelier (Y2301) we got from LampsPlus when we redid our dining room.  (I just realized that I never did a post for that makeover. 😜)

Our children's bedrooms each have a city theme.  This one is London....  The tree skirt is actually the crib skirt I had made for him as a baby, and I love that it matches his room perfectly with his tree now!

Here is Paris... Pink, Black, Silver, White...shoes, purses, Princess carriage, chandeliers, dresses, and all things sparkly!

New York is my teen's room...so...I'm not taking pictures in there!

From our family to yours, merry Christmas!

Winter Snowmen & Reindeer Bulletin Boards

I'm going back through old pictures looking for bulletin boards that I've done over the years, because I realized that I haven't shared them!  These are some that I did last Christmas for our elementary school.  I have vowed to start taking more pictures, because I really simply don't have enough...and I missed out on so many of the fun details!  For example, in the Making Friends snowman board below, the basket next to the snowmen holds snowman arms and a scarf.  A black top hat sits next to the basket.  

The snowman placing the star at the top of the tree?  He has a PRECIOUS winter hat on, and the picture cuts off the big fluff ball at the top of it.

Each of the reindeer has a name plate at the top of their stall.
I often get asked about templates.  I don't have any templates for my boards, as I free-hand most of what I do.  Even if you aren't confident in your craftiness, you can always connect a projector to your computer, use some painter's tape to hang paper on the wall, and use my images as your template.  

Hopefully this gives you some inspiration for some wintery bulletin boards or party decorations of your own!

Gingerbread-themed Bulletin Boards

Y'all, I just realized how popular my Polar Express-themed bulletin board post has become!  I also realized that I've done MANY bulletin boards since my twins were first graders, and so I'm going back through to find old pictures to share.  Hopefully they inspire you to make your hallways or parties more festive! 

In 2nd grade, the teachers at our Elementary School do a story and a gingerbread activity that leads to a fun "scavenger hunt" through the school as they look for clues and notes left by the runaway gingerbread man.  So, it seemed fitting to decorate the 2nd grade hallway with gingerbread houses.  Everything you see here is made with paper, glue, and an occasional marker.  I only wish I had more pictures!