A Magical Party For the Holiday Season's Favorite Elf!

The Elf on the Shelf is the biggest Christmas phenomenon to hit since Frosty, and if your kids are truly obsessed with their magical little holiday friend, it only makes sense to throw a party in his honor.

Luckily for you, Anders Ruff has done the heavy lifting for you, creating an adorable new collection of elf-inspired printables, including posters, Advent calendar tags that double as gift tags, and tons of party labels, cards, banners, and tags. "The magic of the Christmas elf is a tradition that my family has enjoyed for years," Maureen says. "After all, how can Santa possibly watch over all little boys and girls? So when our fabulous friend and client, Audrey of Sweet Cheeks Tasty Treats, brought us the idea of focusing on the magical elf tradition for this year's holiday party, we loved it!" With candy cane stripes, chevron, and snowflakes, this party has us more excited than ever to break out Santa's little scout. Keep clicking to check out all the elf-tastic details!

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Elf Invitation

Elf Invitation

Anders Ruff's magical elf printable party invitation.

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Magical Elf Party

Magical Elf Party

"This year we wanted to design and style a magic elf Christmas party and incorporate lots of printables that people can enjoy and add to their tradition with their own magic elves every year," Maureen says. "The party boasts the traditional red and green colors with added pops of aqua and light blue. The printables include classic patterns such as candy cane stripes with mixes of trendy chevron, ditzy dots, and snowflake patterns."

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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like . . .

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like . . .

"When thinking of what elements and textures to tie into the styling, we immediately knew we had to use yarn to keep with the 'feel' of those cute little elves and keep the decor playful and whimsical," Maureen says. "We utilized the yarn throughout the decor on the tree (yarn pom ornaments) as well as the Christmas gift packaging. Because elves are sometimes mischievous, we got a little crazy with the fun yarn pom string and dangled it around the tree and hung it from the frames and doors."

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Elf Art

Elf Art

"We thought a craft would help make our printable Christmas posters really pop off the walls. We cut custom frames out of foam-core board and wrapped them with yarn. This was a supersimple (just a little time consuming) craft that was economical and made a big impact. We cut felt holly leaves and placed those as an embellishment on one of the frames with yarn pom 'berries.'"

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Elves Everywhere

Elves Everywhere

"Little knee-hugger elves were found all over the party to tie the theme back into the decor," Maureen says. "They can be seen stuck in the gorgeous custom stockings (from Aimee Broussard Events), in the tree, on the frames, hanging from the yarn garland, and tucked in the drawers."

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Magical Milk

Magical Milk

"When thinking of elf treats, we decided to reuse an old pop bottle crate as a display for little treats," Maureen says. "We spray-painted it a bright blue to add a pop of color on the display. We filled it with green rock candy, red licorice, little containers of naughty and nice treats, lollipops, meringue elf hats (which we made!), and little printable notes to Santa. We placed some plastic (kid-friendly!) drink bottles from Smash Cake Studio filled with milk on top of the display with a printable wrapper and straw."

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Elf Magic

Elf Magic

A banner from Anders Ruff's printable magic elf collection.

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Letter to Santa

Letter to Santa

Printable postcards to Santa.

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Elf Cookies

Elf Cookies

"How amazing are the elf cookies by Sugarbelle!?" Maureen says.

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Starry Sweets

Starry Sweets

"We made green meringue Christmas tree treats and placed them on baking cups from Smash Cake Studio that we trimmed and put upside down to add height," Maureen says.

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Christmas Candy

Christmas Candy

"We reused old card catalog drawers as displays for 'naughty' and 'nice' treats and labeled them with the appropriate printable party logos," Maureen says. "The naughty treats included black rock candy, black licorice wheels, black gumballs, and homemade 'coal' (marshmallows dipped in black chocolate and sprinkles). The 'nice' treats included red and green ribbon candy, lollipops, gumballs, and candy canes."

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Coal For Kids

Coal For Kids

Homemade 'coal' is actually flattened marshmallows dipped in black chocolate and sprinkles.

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Twinkle Treats

Twinkle Treats

"Got What It Cakes made festive snow-cone minicupcakes that we displayed in printable party cones out of the dresser drawer," Maureen says.

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Elf Pops

Elf Pops

Sweet Cheeks Tasty Treats made whimsical cake pops that were stuck on paper straws and displayed next to a magical elf in a dresser drawer," Maureen says.

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Yarn and Paper Trees

Yarn and Paper Trees

"The yarn and patterned paper Christmas trees were also a craft project," Maureen says. "We layered yarn and scraps of our patterned paper to make adorable tree decorations."

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Elf Photo Cards

Elf Photo Cards

"We designed our signature holiday photo hangtag Christmas card to match the elf theme," Marueen says. "We punched a hole, added twine, and hung it as part of the decor on the tree."

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Present Perfect

Present Perfect

"We also wrapped several gifts for under the tree with yarn," Maureen says. "We added our printable tags from the magical elf collection. The collection includes 'inspected by elf' tags as well as cute Santa tags and elf tags. We think they would be so much fun to use every year."

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Pretty Packaging

Pretty Packaging

A closer look at one of the gorgeous yarn-covered gifts wrapped for the magical elf party.

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Christmas Kids

Christmas Kids

"The kids came to the party wearing a dress and a tie from B. Belle Couture. Arden was wearing a precious snowflake hair accessory from Drop of Honey Bowtique," Maureen says.

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Naughty or Nice?

Naughty or Nice?

"Keeping with the elf tradition, we wanted to show 'naughty' and 'nice' treats," Maureen says. "We packaged red and white Sixlets in clear containers (from Nashville Wraps) and put on our printable 'nice' label. We packaged black gumballs in the other clear containers and added the printable 'naughty' labels on those. These were placed around the table and on the bottle crate."

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