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Café Elf Is Open

Field Manual EF-24

Your elf opens a tiny café at the breakfast table with a menu, napkins folded into trees and a bell to ring for service. Charming and mess-free.

Set-up time
15 minutes
Morning-after tidy
No mess

Supplies

Requisition slip
  • Napkins
  • A folded card for a menu
  • A small bell, or a spoon and a glass

Setting the scene

  1. 1Fold napkins into triangles (they're trees) and set a place for each person.
  2. 2Write a menu: “Café Elf. Today's specials: cereal, toast and giggles.”
  3. 3Put the elf behind a mug like a café counter, with the bell beside them.
Tonight's note · Form EF-3
The Bureau of Whimsy
Elf Field Operations
Watching Kindly. Reporting Daily.
Field Elf DispatchWorkshop Annex 7, North Pole
Case No.EF-2026-43745
FormEF-3
IssuedDecember 14, 2026
Re: Nightly Field Dispatch

Morning report for Maya and Leo, night 7:

Café Elf is officially open! Today’s specials are on the menu. Service is very slow, because the waiter is quite small. Tips are paid in hugs. Please ring the bell when you’re ready to order.

Today’s mission: have a wonderful day and tell me all about it.

★ BUREAU OF WHIMSY ★ OFFICIAL SEAL ★ BUREAU OF WHIMSY ★ OFFICIAL SEAL

Your friend from the North Pole,

Field Elf Pip
Field Elf, First Class
Elf Field Operations

P.S. Santa says your report was ‘extremely nice’.

Filed in accordance with the Whimsy Act. Please keep in a safe and magical place.

Form EF-3 · Rev. 2026 · Page 1 of 1

Scan to verify authenticity
DISPATCHEDDEC 14 2026 · EF DESK
The note your elf leaves, printed on Elf Field Operations letterhead. Filed here for Maya; yours carries your child’s name.Print this notePlan all 24 nights

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Paperwork that pairs with this scene

Elf Field Operations
  • Form EF-3Free

    Elf Nightly Note

    A short note from the elf for tonight: a kindness mission, a joke, a countdown or an explanation for this morning's mess.

    Letter
  • Form EF-2Free

    Elf Incident Report

    When the elf gets up to something: an official report with offense, evidence, witness statement and a (very lenient) ruling.

    Official form
  • Form EF-1Free

    Elf Arrival Letter

    Your elf's first-morning letter: introductions, the nightly-report routine and a few house rules, all very official.

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Scene set. Note printed. Bedtime.

Print the note with your child's name in about thirty seconds. Classic wording is always free.

Print this noteFile an incident report