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Cereal Swimming Pool

Pool's open in the cereal bowl, with a spoon for a diving board and your elf already swimming laps.

A 2-minute idea for The Elf on the Shelf® or any elf doll.

  • 2 min
  • A little mess
  • Easy
  • All ages

What you need

  • a bowl
  • cereal
  • a spoon

How to set it up

  1. Fill a bowl with dry cereal.
  2. Sit your elf in the middle, arms out like swimming.
  3. Rest a spoon on the rim as a diving board.

Safety check

Skip the milk, so nothing spoils overnight. Use a cereal your youngest already eats, without raisins or chocolate if a dog can reach the bowl. How we check

An elf doll sitting in a bowl of dry cereal with a spoon on the rim like a diving board.

Note from your elf: Doing my morning laps! The water is very crunchy today.

AI illustration of Moss, our own elf. Yours will look a little different.

Written with AI · Checked against our safety list · How we check

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