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Christmas elf competition: Can your elf beat these entries and impress Santa to win our £50 toy voucher?

If you think your elf can do better use the form at the bottom of our article to submit your photos.

Has your elf bean up to mischief like these guys? Image: Dani Stewart.
Has your elf bean up to mischief like these guys? Image: Dani Stewart.

Christmas elves are causing mayhem in homes across Tayside and Fife – as photos from our readers show.

We are looking for the best antics in our Christmas elf competition – and their family will win a £50 toy voucher.

Santa Claus himself will choose the winner, as he takes a break from his grotto duties at Peel Farm, near Kirriemuir.

Santa Claus, pictured here at Peel Farm, will judge our competition. Image: Mhairi Edwards/DC Thomson.

To enter, use the form at the bottom of this article before midday on Friday.

We’ve had a hoot looking through some of the photos submitted so far by readers who have been experiencing elf mischief.

Can your Christmas elf beat these tricks?

And they might inspire your elf to go even bigger and better.

The Elf on Shelf tradition sees small elves arrive mysteriously, usually in early December, to report back to Santa on whether children are being naughty or nice.

Each morning children discover the tricks their elf has been up to during the night.

Some of our Christmas elf competition entries

Is this pasta limits? Image: Varina Day.
TikTok elfluencers. Image: Blake Robertson.
Fancy a sweet? Image: Zariyah Duffy.
Keeping elfy. Image: Andrea Dunbar.
Snow way we’d want to clean this up! Image: Marc Davidson.

Last year’s Christmas elf competition winners

Sammy Gray and her son Bobby, 8, were our winners last year.

Winners Sammy Gray and son Bobby with one of their elves, Ginger. Image: Kim Cessford/DC Thomson.

Their elves Jingle, Jangle and Ginger got up to all sorts in their Arbroath home.

But it was their creation of a winter wonderland in the family’s kitchen that really impressed us.

Last year’s winning winter wonderland. Image: Sammy Gray.

How to enter

Entry has now closed. Thanks to all those who submitted photos!

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