Veggie Drawer Garden

Your elf went gardening in the veggie drawer and picked the crunchiest veggie.

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

  • 5 min
  • No mess
  • Easy
  • All ages

What you need

  • the vegetables you have
  • a napkin
  • a sticky note

How to set it up

  1. Lay a napkin in the veggie drawer and set your elf on it among the vegetables.
  2. Tuck a carrot or other veggie under one arm, like they just picked it, then close the drawer.
  3. Stick the note on the fridge door at kid height.

Safety check

Rinse veggies before eating, and keep your elf on the napkin, off the other food. For kids under 4, open the drawer together and grate or cook hard veggies: raw carrot is a choking risk. How we check

An elf doll on a napkin among vegetables in a fridge veggie drawer, hugging a carrot.

Note from your elf: Gone gardening in the veggie drawer! Pick one veggie to eat 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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