The Midnight Baking Show

Field Manual EF-24

Your elf is caught filming a baking show: flour everywhere, a recipe for reindeer cookies and a cardboard camera. Chaotic, hilarious, best on weekends.

Set-up time: 15 minutes
Morning-after tidy: Glorious chaos

Supplies

Requisition slip

Flour
A mixing bowl and wooden spoon
An empty egg carton
A handwritten recipe card
A small box for a camera

Setting the scene

1Set out a bowl and spoon with a dusting of flour across the counter.
2Add the egg carton and a measuring cup.
3Write a silly recipe card: “Reindeer Cookies: 1 cup of snow, 2 pinches of giggles…”
4Prop a small box facing the elf as a camera, with the elf standing in the bowl holding the spoon.

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:

Welcome to the Midnight Baking Show! Today we’re making reindeer cookies. Step one: get flour everywhere. Done. Step two: I’m not sure. Could you help me bake the real thing this weekend?

Today’s mission: practise your best giggle. I’ll be listening.

Watching kindly,

Pip (your elf)

Field Elf, First Class

Elf Field Operations

P.S. If you hear tiny jingling tonight, that’s just me practising.

The note your elf leaves, printed on Elf Field Operations letterhead. Filed here for Maya; yours carries your child’s name.Print this note Plan all 24 nights

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Scene set. Note printed. Bedtime.

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