North Pole Breakfast

Field Manual EF-24

Your elf sets out a North Pole breakfast with green milk, a menu card and snowman pancakes. A cheerful arrival morning or a special weekend treat.

Set-up time: 15 minutes
Morning-after tidy: A little mess

Supplies

Requisition slip

Milk in a jug
Green food colouring
A folded card for the menu
Pancakes or toast in the morning

Setting the scene

1Add a drop of green food colouring to the milk jug and put it back in the fridge.
2Write a menu card: “North Pole Breakfast. Today's special: snowman pancakes.”
3Sit the elf on the table with the menu and a spoon.
4In the morning, stack three round pancakes into a snowman with fruit for eyes and buttons.

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

Psst… Maya and Leo! Over here!

Welcome to the North Pole Breakfast Club! At home we drink green milk. It’s an elf tradition. Please try it and tell me if it tastes like peppermint. (It doesn’t. It tastes like milk. But it’s green!)

Today’s mission: find me tomorrow morning. (I’m getting sneakier.)

Your friend from the North Pole,

Field Elf Pip

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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Paperwork that pairs with this scene

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Scene set. Note printed. Bedtime.

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