Order your 2025 12 Day Crisp Cringle kit HERE.
These are the instructions for the 2025 Crisp Cringle 12 Day kit!
This kit is intended to be used anytime you need inspo or a break this season! The days are labeled to keep them organized, but the order of the days does not really matter, so feel free to switch them around as you please!
We hope you will follow along as we “elf” together on Instagram @crispcollectiveig HERE. We will set each day up via video in stories! I look forward to doing this tradition together all year! Thank you for letting us help create a bit of Christmas magic for your family! If you have any questions or issues, don’t hesitate to reach out via Etsy or email info@crispcollective.org.
Day 1: All Aboard!
Supplies: Shoe, shoe train card, Clue 1,2, and 3 cards, checkered shoes
Instructions: All aboard!!! Put shoes in a line to form a “train”. Place elf in the front shoe and place the card and clue 1 nearby. You can also set the card on the wooden easel if you prefer.
Place clue 2 on or near a toilet.
Place clue 3 on or near a TV.
Place the checkered shoes in the fridge!
Place the shoes near your elf for him to wear home. He can arrive wearing them on day 3. To put the shoes on, loosen the laces a bit and slide your elf’s foot/leg inside!
Day 2: Ornament
Supplies: Ornament (shape may vary-tree, star or heart), card
Instructions: Place your elf, card and ornament on your Christmas tree! A fun keepsake to remember this fun time with your elf, year after year!
Day 3: Elf Portrait/Letters to Santa
Supplies: Wooden easel, elf face card, elf portrait card, crayons (in box), letter to Santa-1 per child. These are located at the bottom of your kit.
Instructions: Place the elf face card on the easel. Take the crayons out of the box and set them in your elf’s hand/around your elf to give the illusion he is coloring his portrait. Set the letters to Santa our for your kids to complete. We print these on heavy cardstock so they can be a keepsake for you to cherish!
Day 4: Let’s Make Magic!
Supplies: Wooden easel, color card, trick card, 2 bags of skittles, crayons, mini grater
Instructions: Place the color card on the easel. Place the crayons on the top of the graters and place it next to your elf. Place some skittles at the bottom of the grater so it appears the crayons are being grated to become skittles. Grab a small plate or saucer. Place the remaining skittles in a circle on the plate and place the trick card nearby.
Once your child has found the elf, try the “magic” trick together. Pour warm water into the middle of the skittle circle and watch the colors appear!
Day 5: Claus Crew Bakery
Supplies: Bakery sheet-in the bottom of your kit, black plastic cup, Grab a fresh brownie card, wooden easel, 4 E cards, flour and baking utensils(optional)
Instructions: Fold your bakery sheet along the white lines to make a tri-fold.
Place your elf inside the black cup so he is balanced. Place the cup behind the trifold so the elf’s face shows through the square cutout. Place the “Grab a fresh brownie” card on the wooden easel near the trifold. Scatter a little flour and baking utensils around.
Place your four E cards on a baking sheet in the oven. If you have more than one elf, you can place the other elf with the brown E’s (BROWNIES!). Close the oven and let your child discover the elf’s play on words!
Day 6: Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt
Supplies: Scavenger hunt card
Instructions: I placed our elf in our car, buckled his seatbelt and placed the scavenger hunt card nearby. If the car does not work, place this anywhere around the house. Take the scavenger hunt card with you whenever you go to look at lights and mark each item off as you find them. If you ordered for additional kids, each child has their own scavenger hunt card. This is one of our favorite family traditions, and I hope it becomes one of yours! You can also use the cup from Day 12 to take your elf along for the ride!
Day 7: Not the Only One with a Red Nose
Supplies: Red dot stickers, Red nose card
Instructions: Place the red dot stickers on a family photo. Place the card nearby or use the easel to display! If you don’t want to use a photo, use one of your children’s books or items in your fridge or pantry with images of people or animals on them.
Day 8: I Made You Breakfast!
Supplies: “I Made You Breakfast” card, skittles, ramen, two wooden sticks, a fork, a small bowl, an apple, potato or lemon….something to secure your wooden sticks (see below!)
Instructions: Cut your apple/potato/lemon in half and place it in your small bowl with the flat side down. Stick the pointy ends of your wooden sticks into the fruit/veggie until they seem secure. Place the wooden sticks into 2 of the spaces between the prongs on your fork, at an angle. Push the wooden sticks into the space until it feels secure and the fork can “float” there on its own.
Prepare the Ramen per the package instructions….I just did the microwave for a couple of minutes. Place the ramen over the fork and in the bowl so that the apple and sticks are hidden. Place skittles in the noodles. Place the “I made you breakfast” card in your elf’s lap!
Breakfast is served!!
Day 9: Shark Attack!!
Supplies: Shark sheet-found at the bottom of your elf kit box, Help! sign, string and/or tape
Instructions: Place your shark sheet under your toilet seat. You may want to add a little piece of tape to secure it! Tie a piece of string to your elf’s arm. Lift the toilet seat lid and tape the string to the back of the lid so your elf is hanging. If you have more than one elf, your other elf/elves can be holding this string from the top of the toilet. Tape the “Help!” sign by your elf’s face.
Day 10: Warm Wishes + Christmas Kisses
Supplies: Silver circle, Foil sheets, Kisses tag, Warm wishes card
Instructions: Fold your elf and sit him on the silver circle to serve as a base. Wrap the sheets of foil around the base and your elf. Use half a sheet to wrap his hat. Insert the Kisses tag at the top. Use tape to secure if needed. Place the “Warm Wishes” card close by or set it on the wooden easel.
Day 11 : Pin the Nose on Rudoph
Supplies: Blindfold, “pin the nose” card, wooden easel
Instructions: Tie the blindfold to cover your elf’s eyes. Place the card on the easel.
Day 12: Santa’s Story Time
Supplies: Story time card, wooden easel, book, stuffed animals/Barbies/action figures/etc.
Instructions: Set your elf on a pillow or chair. Unfold a book and place them so it looks like they are reading. Place stuffed animals/toys in a semi-circle around the elf. Put the story time card on the wooden easel in front of this sweet scene!
Thank you for letting us make Christmas magic for your family this season! We LOVE doing this SO much!
