To help you out with this, the official Elf on the Shelf website offers a complete list that you can read to your kids, detailing why it's so important their Elves get back to Santa quickly.

Santa Claus, Indiana, is home to a beloved tradition in which volunteers, or "elves," respond to thousands of Christmas letters sent to Santa each year from children from all over.

If you're looking for a little help, you'll love this list of the best Elf on the Shelf names. There's Christmas themed names, reindeer names, and names inspired by your favorite holiday treats ...

Elf on the Shelf was invented by Carol Aebersold and her daughter Chanda Bell, who published "The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition" in 2005.

I never wanted an Elf on the Shelf. But last year, just when I thought we were exiting the believing-in-Santa years, my daughter saved up her money and asked me to drive her to Target to buy an ...

The letters ask Globe Santa for gift assistance — toys, books, and games from the Globe’s 69-year-old charity, a signature program of the Boston Globe Foundation.

Mitchell wondered. While Elf on a Shelf is a relatively new tradition here in the United States (it gained popularity after the publication of a book in 2005), the cute elf is a descendant of a much ...

Santa simply cannot do it all by himself. There are elf labor laws to follow, last minute present requests, and let’s face it, Rudolph isn’t getting any younger. So, when West Pittston’s ...

The U.S. Postal Service’s “Operation Santa” helps fulfill thousands of children’s Christmas lists every year. Now, a new online function allows those that adopt children’s letters to ...

The letters come from parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, uncles, guardians, and in one case this year, a small child’s school teacher, advocating for the family to get help.