Elfcapades {Elf in the Classroom + Random Acts of Kindness} FREEBIE

On Thursday, my students came in to this sight...

That's right. I finally caved.  I let Santa send an Elf to our classroom.  Meet Mr. Sparkles.

On his way to our classroom, he saw these doughnuts that reminded him of snowballs from the North Pole.  He decided to bring the kids some - and he had a couple of letters for us.

The first was a letter from Santa, introducing the Elf.  The second was a letter addressed to Mrs. Madden.  It said that Santa knew our class used the Whole Brain Teaching scoreboard and it gave the kids a little challenge.

Our Elf will bring a present to our class (yep, he leaves it right under our class Christmas tree) each day for the 12 days of Christmas before winter break.  At the end of each day, we get to open the present.  If the students have won on the scoreboard, they get to keep the present.  If not, they get to see what it was, but they are not able to keep it. :(

The "gifts" are usually fun rewards for the students, but they are ALWAYS a way to spread kindness to others.  I love how our Elf is helping us spread Random Acts of Christmas Kindness during these last days of school before the break!  The Elf just puts one of the little "12 days of Elfcapades" notes into the gift bag each day...

As you can see from these examples, the "gift" (note) is a little fun reward for the kiddos each day but also a way for them to spread kindness somehow.  Our Elf just prepared 12 mini-gift bags numbered with the day and placed the note that corresponded to that day inside of the bag.  Easy peasy little present!

If you'd like to read more about this, or use this idea in your classroom, I've compiled it all into a little printable pack.  While, it's not editable, I hope that you can use (at least) parts of it, or that it will help spark a way that you can use it with your class.

{Download HERE}

Also, don't forget about our 12 days of Christmas Freebies at our TpT shop!  Day 8 has just been uploaded...

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