All good stories have a villain who ends up turning good and everybody knows the villain at Christmas time is the Grinch who always tries to steal Christmas.
The Grinch can escape Whoville and come to your house to make things interesting this Christmas. Afterall the Grinch has been around longer than those
cheeky elves.
Naturally he’s going to inject a little mischief and try to thwart the elf on the shelf’s plans most nights, but as the month goes on they may become friends and start working together to spread the Christmas spirit. Here’s lots of ideas if you want the Grinch to come visit with the elves this year.
GRINCH ELF IDEAS: WHEN WHOVILLE’S ANTI-HERO MEETS ELF ON THE SHELF
If you want to invite some Grinch mischief into your house this December you can adopt a special elf sized Grinch doll. You can get plain green or red
Grinch dolls here or
here {or from
Catch if you’re in Australia}, or you can get Grinch dolls with different coloured clothes
here. If you want to make them posable, wire them with this
elf flex kit.
*Please note these are not official Elf on the Shelf items, however they are the same size as scout elves.
Grinch the elves
The Grinch can also try and turn the elves into a mean Grinch by literally sticking his face on them.
Grinch reading bed time story
Grinch fart
That’s one way to make a dutch oven! Even the Grinch loves
toilet humour and fart jokes.
Grinch food
Even though he relies on Max to get his food ready in Whoville, the Grinch is perfectly capable of cooking. You can make some mini Grinch treats by printing these
free printable Grinch food labels in teeny tiny sizes and taping them over some foam.
Grinchmas breakfast
It’s well known that elves love to create a North Pole breakfast, so it’s only fair that the Grinch gets his chance to throw a lavish Grinchmas breakfast too. Complete with lots of special green treats like green chocolate milk {use
white hot chocolate mix and green food colouring} and green grinch waffles {use this
grinch waffle maker}.
Grinch holds elf hostage
Uh-oh looks like the Grinch is trying to get rid of the elf again! Or maybe he’s just wrapping him up like a present and putting him under the tree…
Elf jail
If wrapping them up doesn’t work then the Grinch can always put the elves in jail. He’ll have to keep a close eye on them though because jail breaks happen and an elf jail can easily become a grinch jail if they get revenge.
You can make a jail using a cardboard box and some straws or candy canes as the bars. If you want a more realistic jail cell, elves fit perfectly in this
novelty phone jail.
Grinch shrinks elf
If jail doesn’t work to keep the elf {or elves} in line then the Grinch can always pull out his shrinking ray and zap the elf into a
teeny tiny version. What a great way to minimise your problems.
Grinch gets caught
There’s only so much
pranking one can take before they fight back and the Grinch better look out because even though elves are primarily good, they’re not adverse to taking a bit of revenge when needed.
Grinch the bathroom
He can also go a step further and set up a green bath for the kids using green bath bombs or a slimy green bath using
green gelli baff. He might even turn the toilet water green with a few drops of food colouring.
Grinch the loungeroom
If he’s not content just grinching the bathroom he can always grinch the entire loungeroom. Wrap the tree in a
lime green disposable tablecloth then make sure he draws his face on it. Make the room even more
grinchy with green balloons or a
balloon garland, green streamers and swap out the lounge cushions for some
Grinch cushions.
Get along shirt
Eventually Santa will probably get annoyed with the Grinch and elf constantly antagonising each other and he’ll force them to learn to get along by wearing a
get along shirt. Good luck with that one guys!
Elves take Grinch back home
A great way for the
elves to leave when the Grinch is in the house is to capture him and take him back home with them. They can drop him off to Whoville on their way back to the North Pole. That way you’ll know he definitely won’t be getting up to any more mischief,
or ruining Christmas. You can get a
printable Grinch goodbye letter so he doesn’t leave without saying goodbye to the kids.
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