Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The author has been doing Elf on the Shelf pranks for her son for years.Courtesy of Ashley Archambault I've been doing the Elf on ...

With Christmas right around the corner, it's time to start thinking about important seasonal topics, such as presents, trees, stockings and, of course, Elf on the Shelf! This holiday activity brings ...

Melissa Shission took a careful look. No kids in sight. She adjusted the Elf on the Shelf, wrapped in a tortilla in the refrigerator case of Abide Coffeehouse in Wilkes-Barre. As a business partner, a ...

Disclaimer: This author is a Grinch in human guise. I would rather clip Italian greyhound toenails and do laundry full of stinking soccer uniforms 24-7 than come up with charming, imaginative tableaux ...

If there's one thing no one needs at the holidays, it's more stress, especially if you've got children at home. Yet, in hundreds of thousands of households across the country, a 10-inch red-clad Elf ...

An Elf on the Shelf doll appears upside down in a car at the home of Antonia Katsanos in Franklin Lakes, N.J. on Dec. 17, 2023. (Antonia Katsanos via AP) A few years ago, Kurt Neesley of Redondo Beach ...

A few years ago, Kurt Neesley of Redondo Beach, Calif., was brainstorming where to put his family’s Elf on the Shelf for his three kids to find the next morning. He decided to make it look like the ...

I've been doing the Elf on the Shelf pranks for my son for years, and he's always known it's me. I don't even use the trademark Elf — I have a little gnome that works just as well. I enjoy it more ...

The first Christmas I tried the Elf on the Shelf trend, my son was already 6. It was during the pandemic, and I thought it might cheer us both up. I had a friend who was doing it with her kids, and it ...