The Toilet Paper Maze
5 minutes · Low cost · 3–8 years · Big mess
The elf must have been terribly bored. It found a roll of toilet paper, gave it one good shove, and then chased it from the elf door all the way across the living room. By morning the place looks like the end of a very small party. The paper is still in one piece, which is lucky, because somebody now has to roll it back up.
What you need
- 1 roll of toilet paper
How to do it
- Wait until the children are asleep.
- Take one roll of toilet paper.
- Trail it generously out from the elf door and across the room — over the back of the sofa, around a chair leg, under the table.
- Leave the roll itself by the elf door, as if the elf had just that second run out of paper.
What you tell the children
“Can you wind all of that paper back onto the roll before it gets into a knot? That is a proper elf clean-up mission.”
The note the elf leaves
Oops. I only wanted to see how long that funny paper was. It turns out: very long. Now my arms ache from all the rolling.
Your elf
The printable version is in the app — with your elf's name on it, and your child's.
One idea every night
The app spreads the ideas across the nights up to Christmas, reminds you in the evening and prints the letters. Twelve are free, and 70 more come with the season pass.
