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June 29th, 2011 | 
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The Elf on the Shelf Christmas and Elf Magic traditions are sweeping the nation — for good reason. They offer a delightful way to build excitement for the holidays, and keep children on their best behavior. Here is how they work. The “official” Elf on the Shelf, Elf Magic Elf or a another elf, arrives at your home early in the Christmas season to spend the holidays with your family. Each night the Elf on a Shelf returns to the North Pole, while your children are sleeping, to report to Santa in regards to their behavior. While the Elf on the Shelf Elves have a more staid reputation, the Elf Magic Elves are a mischievous bunch, and have a tendency to make a mess or pull a crazy stunt while everyone is asleep. Your kids will love to wake up each morning and see what trouble the Elf got into the night before. Here are ten ideas found around the internet and from local families to inspire your elf: Elves Love to Do What Your Kids Love To Do Elves adjust quickly to a household, and a great deal of mornings are found busy with the bestloved actions of the kids who live there. Reading bestloved books, playing games (including the Wii or Nintendo DS), having a tea party with best-loved dolls, and riding skateboards are all favored Elf past times. Elves Are Into Computers and Social Media Elves in homes with teens have been known to have email, Facebook and Twitter accounts to keep an online eye on the kids and send amusive emails, status updates and tweets. Many elves likewise seem to surf the internet late at night, finding fun new internet sites for the kids to enjoy. Elves Love to be in Pictures Apparently, Elves are very good at self portraits. Many families have found their digital cameras full of pictures of their Elves in all kinds of crazy poses. Elves Often Have A Driver’s License If an Elf cannot be found in the morning, the car is the original place to look. Elves are oftentimes found in the driver’s seat, sitting on a stack of pillows or books. The car may be parked backwards or in a crazy position, and in a heap of cases even down the street or in a neighbor’s driveway. Typically, Christmas music is blaring through the speakers and the gas tank is mysteriously closer to empty than before. Elves Write in Journals Elves and children oftentimes learn more with regards to each other and build bonds by writing letters back and forth. Some Elves arrive with a festively fancified diary to keep all the communication exchange in one place. It has been rumored that galore Elves only write backwards, so children must hold the note up to the mirror to read it. A few are conversant in Pig Latin or other codes that older kids ought to decipher. Elves Tell Potty Jokes, Too Bathroom humor spans all languages and species. Elves love to turn the toilet water green (with feed coloring), decorate Christmas trees in underwear, toilet paper kids rooms or whole houses, and write on bathroom mirrors with mom’s lipstick. Elves Spell Their Names – Everywhere! Each Elf has a name. Some are named by the children they watch. Others arrive with a note introducing the Elf. Either way, all Elves seem to love to leave their signature as often times as possible. Maybe the Elf’s name is written in Cheerios, flour, or chocolate syrup on the counter. Other times in toothpaste on the bathroom mirror. Best of all, in feed coloring on freshly fallen snow. Elves Love Things That Remind Them of Home Cotton ball snowball fights are a favored past time of elves. Also, Elves often times make elf sized snow angels. If real snow is not available, then Insta-Snow or flour make good substitutes. A bestloved game for Elves is Candy Lane. If the house does not already have a copy, Elves have been known to fetch one from the North Pole as an early Christmas gift. Elves Do Not Always Come Alone What could be better than an Elf on the Shelf? Several Elves, of course. That means the mischief may multiply and children awake to elaborate scenes of Elf mayhem. Maybe a poker game or baseball or football match or a play with Elves in costume (borrowed from other dolls). Elves Play With Their Neighbor Elves So numerous families have their own Elf on a Shelf for the duration of the holidays that Elves join with neighbor Elves to increase the fun. Many neighbor elves have been waiting together at the bus stop for their children to arrive. Other Elves host a Christmas party for neighborhood kids. As you may see, the future prospects or potentials are endless for your elf tradition. Happy Holidays!
Most helpful customer reviews 166 of 174 people found the following review helpful. (Note: This movie features a somewhat different cast than did the series. While the Walton children are the same, many of the other adult roles in this film, except Grandma Walton played by the late Ellen Corby, were recast for the series.)
A homespun tale, the movie focuses on rural life during the Great Depression and the anxiety a family feels one Christmas when their beloved Father is overdue after being forced to travel to the city to find work and earn money for his family’s survival.
Each of the characters reacts to his departure in different ways. Ultimately, the oldest son, John-Boy, portrayed by Richard Thomas, takes important steps to manhood and toward his ultimate career as a writer.
This film has a harsher, more real feel than did the series, and tackles such difficult subjects as racial bigotry and the economic underclass.
The great Patricia Neal is spectacular in her portrayal of the mother. Tougher than the portrayal that came later by the gifted Michael Learned, Neal’s Olivia Walton is a genuine force of nature who rarely displays her softer side. Life is very difficult, but love is always present in the Walton home.
If you’ve never seen this movie, you owe it to yourself to view a more unvarnished, less “suburban” rendition of life in this beloved family. A scene in which little Elizabeth, who desperately wants a doll for Christmas, receives one — with a cracked and broken face — from a “charity” Missionary only after having to “perform” scriptures, is so raw that it hurts. “It’s dead,” the little girl sobs into her brother’s comforting arms.
This film is anything but dead. There is real life in every panel that reaffirms true family relationships and the Christmas spirit without being heavy-handed. Look also for a gifted supporting performance by the talented William Windom, who plays a Depression-era Robin Hood.
If ever a TV-movie deserved to be released on DVD, this is it. 57 of 58 people found the following review helpful. 48 of 49 people found the following review helpful. This entire cast, in fact, seems ideally suited for his/her role in this program. The true feeling and spirit of the holiday shines through in every single scene of The Homecoming Christmas special, with the producers re-creating a quite realistic feeling that it is indeed Christmas 1933, during the height of The Great Depression. The writing, acting, and the atmosphere are all first-rate. This is one of those programs that deserves to be watched every Christmas Eve, just like clockwork. Who could forget the great scene at the end of the movie, when John (Daddy Walton, played by Andrew Duggan) relays his encounter with Santa Claus. Watching him tell the kids of how Santa’s sleigh “…went flying across the sky and landed right on top of this house!!”, to me, is one of the best scenes in TV history. Watching that scene, you’d swear those kids were not actors at all — but just wide-eyed excited kids hanging on Dad’s every word. Thank you, Earl Hamner, Jr., for a timeless holiday special! |
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