Ornament Ball Pit

Your elf filled a bowl with ornaments and turned it into a ball pit under the tree.

A 5-minute idea for The Elf on the Shelf® or any elf doll.

  • 5 min
  • A little mess
  • Easy
  • Ages 4–7, Ages 8+

What you need

  • a large bowl
  • shatterproof ornaments

How to set it up

  1. Take about 20 shatterproof ball ornaments off the lowest branches, remove the hooks, and pile them into a large bowl under the tree.
  2. Sit your elf in the middle, sunk to its waist, with its arms spread out across the ornaments.

Safety check

Use shatterproof ornaments with the metal hooks taken off, and keep small ones away from babies and toddlers. How we check

An elf doll sunk to its waist in a large bowl full of shiny shatterproof ornaments under a decorated tree with bare lowest branches, its arms spread across the ornaments.

Note from your elf: Best. Ball pit. Ever. The tree said I could borrow them. Probably.

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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