Elf on the Shelf - Community Candy Canes

This year the program is closed this week but thought I would share a couple of Ian the Elf ideas from years past ... this one is a particularly fun one for the crew cause they LOVE riding the city bus as a treat. Sometimes we do not even have to GO anywhere afterward they are happy to just ride the route and watch out the big windows at all there is to see in the community and come back home! 

So this challenge is particularly fun for them because we do just that sitting at the front of the bus and passing out a Candy Cane to the riders as they walk past us after getting on the bus and signing some Christmas Carols while we travel around the route. Sometimes we get off at the grocery store or the mall and do our choosing of either the Food Bank challenge or Angel tree during this particular multi tasking challenge and than we head back home! 

Have an amazing day!

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life 

 

Elf on the Shelf ~ Random Acts continued

Everyone all busy shopping for the holidays is a perfect time for doing the pay it forward with the leave the correct change challenge! 

My daycare crew loves to do this one as well ~  they love the idea of being given money to be in charge of even if they are in charge of paying it forward to someone else! 

This is also an amazing act of kindness that is easy to do ALL YEAR LONG ... not to long ago I was struggling myself in a dark parking lot to get the correct change to get a ticket out of the machine getting a little stressed at running late to my appointment, being in a dark unknown to myself part of town alone in a parking lot and along came a guardian angel who put the proper change in the machine and went on alone there way! It totally MADE MY DAY a small act of kindness but a huge impact on my day.

Have an amazing day!

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life

Santa's Little Secret ~ Old Toys New Joys

I was totally inspired by the MotherList's  the New Elf on the Self Tradition that went viral earlier this month that I just had to adapt and build on it for myself for use with the crew! 

Ian the Elf came up with this poem to help explain the Secret of Santa Claus and we are going to purge some of the playroom toys that are rarely used anymore and help them find a new home this holiday season!

Old Toys New Joys

I wanted to let you in on a little secret about how Santa works

Now that you are ‘growing up big’ learning this secret is one of the perks

Santa is magic, why yes indeed,

But even he cannot make all the toys that the children of the world might need!

So Santa does not actually make all the toys from brand new

Sometimes he asks for help from boys and girls like you.

He asks that you look through the toys that you no longer use

The cars, and trinkets and maybe your old Blue’s Clues

Leave one each night for me to take back

And Santa will fix it up and add it to his Santa Sack.

This is how your old trinkets and toys

Can become new gifts and Christmas Joys!

Christmas does not need to be about 'commercialism' it really is about focusing on our PRESENCE in the community not the PRESENTS!!

Have an amazing day!

Margaret

Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much

Be Totallyawake4-life