Elf on the Shelf?

[Junelouise]

I never heard of Elf on the Shelf until friday when the grade 1 girl I look after came home all excited about him in her classroom at school. I thought it was just something the teacher had thought up until I read this post!
I buy gifts for my daycare kids at Christmas..try to keep to $ 20.00 limit. Most of my daycare are school kids, so not sure if I am going to do Elf on the shelf.
They like to help me with Christmas baking and they love the decorations. I have a wreath on the front door (doing the decorating today) with a cute snowman hanging in the middle. I hang small candy canes on the Christmas tree that I give out to them for a treat. I put out the home made nativity scene that an uncle made for us years ago..complete with lights in it. I have Christmas carols on CD's that we sing along to. I have two large lighted deers (buck and a doe) that we put out on the front lawn, which they really love, along with lighted lollipops and all the lights on the house(no more bushes, they all got cut down). OK, I am getting into the Christmas spirit now that I am talking about it!