At the beginning of December each year our friend Elfie arrives at Uxbridge. He can be a bit of a trouble maker but he is also lots of fun! Every day he puts himself in a new hiding place in the centre and brings the gift of a story, song, activity or resource which he leaves a hint or note about in our advent calendar. Here are some of the adventures that he got up to this year.
On his first day Elfie hid by our letter box. He brought us some fresh holly and some smarties with a recipe for Smarties Cookies for us to bake. They were delicious.
Here is Elfie hiding in our mat resources with some envelopes. His gift for us today was everything that we needed to write letters to Santa. We posted these that afternoon.
Hanging out on the Kumara eating Kumara chips!
On this day Elfies gift was beads and materials for making Christmas necklaces
Oh No!!! Santa ran out of wrapping paper to wrap all the presents he was making. Luckily he was able to send Elfie to Uxbridge with a note asking for help. Of course our tamariki were able to save the day by making more wrapping paper for Santa.
Another of Elfies surprises was cups and lots of beautiful fresh flowers to make our own Christmas arrangements.
Christmas head bands - so much fun, thank you Elfie!
You have heard of "pin the tail on the donkey", Elfie brought us the Christmas edition, pin the nose on Rudolf.
Elfies final gift of the year was a little piece of his home in the North Pole, big blocks of ice for us to explore. Ka kite ano Elfie, Merry Christmas, see you next year.
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