An elf door is a tiny door by the skirting board. It is where the elf lives, who gets up to mischief in your home in December. How it works
Gingerbread
Baked, iced and ready: a gingerbread door with white icing, gumdrops round the arch and a peppermint on the door. It is the most playful of the doors and the one small children often point to first.
It also sets up a good antic: perhaps someone nibbled the door during the night, and you can trim a small piece off the edge next morning. To take it further, bake a tiny gingerbread biscuit to leave on the mat.
Change the mat and sign
The door comes with its own mat and sign on the same sheet. You can change them, take them off, write your own words on the sign and choose a size: 9, 13 or 18 centimetres. Change this door
How to do it
Print on A4 at actual size, cut along the dashed line and put the door up with sticky tack by the skirting board. Do it on the evening of 30 November, and the elf has moved in by morning.
Accessories for the door: a lantern, parcels, a Christmas tree and more
