Magic by Morning Tonight

Santa's Cookie Quality Check

Your elf taste-tested Santa's cookies a day early and approved them. Strictly for quality.

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

  • Goodbye, start Dec 23
  • 5 min
  • A little mess
  • Easy
  • All ages

What you need

  • cookies
  • a plate
  • a sticky note and a marker

How to set it up

  1. The night before Christmas Eve, set a few cookies on a plate and break a tiny elf-size bite out of one.
  2. Add a sticky note to the plate: APPROVED FOR SANTA.
  3. Sit your elf beside the plate with a crumb in their lap.

Safety check

Keep the cookies out of reach of dogs overnight, especially chocolate ones. How we check

An elf doll beside a plate of cookies, one with a tiny bite missing, and a sticky note that says APPROVED FOR SANTA.

Note from your elf: Quality check done: five stars! Please set these out for Santa tonight.

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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