Magic by Morning Tonight

Snow Globe Arrival

A snow globe appeared overnight, with your elf inside, sitting in a little North Pole snow.

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

  • Arrival
  • 5 min
  • A little mess
  • Easy
  • All ages

What you need

  • a large clear bowl
  • a plate
  • cotton balls

How to set it up

  1. Place your elf on a plate with a few cotton balls around their feet.
  2. Turn a large clear bowl upside down over them.
  3. Scatter more cotton around the base as fresh snow.

Safety check

Cotton balls can end up in little mouths, and glass can break. With a baby or toddler in the house, use a plastic bowl and set the globe where they can see it but not reach it. How we check

An elf doll under an upside-down clear bowl with cotton-ball snow, like a snow globe, on a table.

Note from your elf: I brought North Pole snow. Don't worry, it's the dry kind.

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

For the rest of the month. 5 more ideas here use cotton balls. If you're shopping anyway: Cotton balls (Amazon)

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

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