Christmas elves caused mayhem across Tayside and Fife – but they won one Perth family a £50 toy voucher.
As well as keeping her youngest sons Tommi, 10, and Lochlan, 7, entertained, the antics of Stacey Campbell’s elves made her the winner of our Christmas elf competition.
Elves like her Jerry and Jinxy have become a Christmas tradition in recent years, arriving in households in the run-up to Christmas and getting up to mischief each night before leaving with Santa on Christmas Eve.
Our Christmas elf competition invited readers to send us photographs of their elves’ best tricks.
Crafty Jerry and Jinxy drew inspiration from ITV show I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and created a Bushtucker Trial.
Our Christmas elf competition winner 2022
Jerry was trapped in a fish tank with plastic spiders and bugs which Lochlan and Tommi had to reach into to find Christmas bows. An eating challenge included mouse brains (cockles), crocodiles’ hearts (halved peaches) and frogs’ egg (pickles).
Stacey said: “Tommi tried it [the food] but Lochlan wasn’t too keen.
“Tommi looked like he thought it was real spiders. He kept jumping when he put his hand in the tank!”
The trial was one of several imaginative pranks by the elves, including creating a zipline across the living room.
Food bank shopping list
Jerry and Jinxy have been visiting Stacey’s family for eight years, and in 2015 made the local press when they left a food bank shopping list for Tommi and big brother PJ, now 15.
Stacey said it was a great surprise to win to our competition, and knowing the elves bring joy to her boys and others makes the effort worthwhile.
She said: “Every morning the boys are so excited to run downstairs to see what the elves have been up to.
“It’s nice to know that other people enjoy them as well.”
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