1. This parent, who tried to have her kids' elf play a game, and may have given them nightmares for life:
2. This parent, who forgot that their kids' elf was in the fireplace, and they turned the fireplace on:
3. This parent, who set up a scene with the kids' elf playing the piano, and then this happened:
4. This parent, who set the elf up eating Cheetos, and didn't notice where she sprinkled them until her kids started laughing:
5. This parent, whose "elf making snow angels" scene was really adorable...until the cat mistook the "snow" for kitty litter:
6. This parent, who found the elf covered in nail polish, so they tried to remove it and fix the elf's face...
...but it turned out like this:
7. This parent, who tried to set up a cotton candy bubble bath scene with the elf, and didn't realize that cotton candy evaporates when left out:
8. This parent, who asked her husband to set up a card-playing scene, but he neglected to dress the kids' dolls first, so it looked more like a strip poker scene:
9. This parent, who tried to write a fun bathtub message from the elf, but it turned out a little cryptic:
10. This parent, who set the elf on a wall sconce, and this happened:
11. This parent, who tried putting their kids' elf in a balloon, and accidentally created something kinda creepy:
12. And this parent, who tried putting the elf in a blown-up balloon, but it ended up looking like a straight-up placenta:
13. This parent, whose new puppy got ahold of the elf, and the rest is, well:
14. This parent, who tried making a snow angels scene with sprinkles, and it turned out looking more like a crime scene:
15. This parent, who set the elf up to dance with the nutcracker doll, but it slipped and led to this questionable position:
16. This parent, whose elf "zip-lining" from fishing wire was a cool idea...until her kid stumbled upon him floating in midair like this and was scared to death:
17. This parent, who set the elf up near the toilet, and he promptly fell in:
18. This parent, who tried to set up a scene where the elf chewed bubble gum and blew a bubble from their butt...but it deflated and looked more like diarrhea:
19. This parent, who thought it would be cute to set up a candle marshmallow-roasting scene...until the marshmallows caught on fire and almost burned the house down:
20. This parent, who hid her kids' elf in the oven, forgot about it, and then turned on the oven:
21. This parent, who hung their kids' elf from the ceiling in the kitchen and it fell, so the kids woke up to find it drowned in a soaking pot:
22. This parent, who tried the snow angel thing too, but her kiddo got to the sugar "snow"...right before school:
23. And finally, this poor, poor parent, who sat her kids' elf on a light fixture, and it burned straight through his jingle bells:
Hang in there, parents — Christmas will be here before you know it!
