Check Your Elf
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No more guessing

How Check Your Elf works

Check Your Elf is a digital planner app plus printable notes and letters. It plans all 24 nights of your Christmas elf's visit, so you stop improvising at 11 PM.

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🎛️ Tell us about your family

Three quick questions: your kids' ages, how much time you have on a school night, and the kind of fun your family loves — silly, kindness, low-mess, scavenger hunts and more. You can name your elf so every note is in their voice.

Start the 3-minute wizard →
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📅 Get your whole December

Check Your Elf builds a Dec 1–24 calendar around what you already own — marshmallows, ribbon, toilet paper, freezer paper. Every night has a picture guide and setup time. Don't like a night? Try another, drag two nights to swap them, or write your own.

See the calendar →
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🖨️ Print, set up, check it off

Print the nightly elf notes, the arrival and farewell letters, the calendar grid and the parent cheat sheet. Add your own personal message to any letter before printing. When the elf is moved, tap 'Moved & Done!' so both parents know tonight is handled.

Look at the printables →

Free

  • ✓Build a personalised 24-night plan in about 3 minutes
  • ✓See the first 7 nights on screen, free
  • ✓The 11 PM Panic button for instant ideas
  • ✓Elf SOS! Magic Rescue recovery plan

Full Pack

  • ✓All 24 nights, on any device
  • ✓Every printable: nightly notes, arrival & farewell letters, calendar grid, cheat sheet
  • ✓Add your own personal messages to letters and notes
  • ✓Write your own idea on any night
  • ✓Unlimited swaps and reshuffles

Everything in Free, plus the printable kit and all 24 nights.

🛍️ Bought it on Etsy?

Access is instant and there are no codes to type.

  1. 1. Download the welcome PDF from your Etsy order.
  2. 2. Tap the activation link inside it.
  3. 3. Sign in or create a free account — your Full Pack unlocks right away.

Stuck? The Elf Support page has answers about activation, saving and printing.

🖨️ Printing tips

  • • Print from a computer or phone browser, not a print app.
  • • Set scaling to 100% and turn on "background graphics" so the borders and colours show.
  • • Letter or A4 paper both work. The nightly note cards print on dashed cut lines.

Ready to stop panicking?

Build your plan now and see the first 7 nights free — no account needed to start.

Build my 24-day plan ✨

Looking for ideas first? Try easy elf ideas, last-minute elf ideas or elf scavenger hunts.