Ideas for Hide and Hug Olaf - An Elf on the Shelf Alternative

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Like the concept of Elf on the Shelf, but think the elf is a little creepy?  I'm not the only one who thinks that, right?  A few years ago we started An Elf on the Self Alternative and have thoroughly enjoyed it.

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In my original post about Hide and Hug Olaf, I posted some ideas from the first year we fully embraced it.  The first year, Michael didn't fully understand and Olaf ended up in the same spot most of the time.  Now, Michael loves getting up and finding Olaf.  This year he even told us what he was going to tell Olaf when he arrived.

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For us, Olaf arrives the day after Thanksgiving.  You could save yourself some time of coming up with hiding ideas and have him arrive on December 1st.  Whatever works best for you.  We've had Olaf hide on our Disney Infinity base, go ice skating with the Peanuts gang in my Peanuts snow village, sail on a LEGO pirate ship that Jon and Michael had put together earlier in the day, and just hanging out in our Christmas light box (to be honest that was mostly because we forgot to move him and it was the closet place to put him without getting caught).

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Olaf has put himself into the Peanuts nativity set, hung out with some Christmas stuffed animals, felt that he should be in my Disney snow village (which I completely agree with him on that one), and played on our Nintendo WiiU with Michael's headphones.

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He's gone fishing in Michael's bathroom, hung out with other snowmen, decided to climb our cabinets where we hang our Christmas cards, and read a book about snowmen.

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Brought a Frozen puzzle and fun pack, wanted to be cool like Michael and be a Lion Cub Scout and make an ornament, hide up in our chandelier, and tried to sneak a peak of our Tsum Tsum advent calendar.

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He decided to try and summon some Yo-Kai, hang out in the PJ Masks headquarters, lay in Michael's bed and read a book about gingerbread, and hang out in the curio cabinet to "watch" some TV.  Olaf has also suggested to watch Frozen and has brought an Olaf LEGO kit.


Hope you've found this to be helpful.  This year, we have incorporated some Elf on the Shelf ideas with our hiding of Olaf.  Above is the board that I've created with many great ideas if you need some more help.  Do you have Hide and Hug Olaf?  If so, what are some things you've been doing to hide him?

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