ELF Flex Elf Upgrade Kit: Make Your Elf Amazing! This Kit Will Make Your Elf Flexible and Bendable! You Will Be Able to Bend Em Grip Em Stick Em Hang Em

So, this little kit actually makes our little’s elf much more fun for her and definitely expands the possibilities for Ellie Elf’s daily activities. I am admittedly terrible at reading/watching/paying attention to instructions/directions, but there is a website you go to for a pdf of this product’s “how-to”, though it’s pretty self explanatory.Magnets:When you slide the tin open, the magnets tend to jump from the foam insert into the face of the tin lid, so if you aren’t looking down when you slide it open, it will be easy to not notice it happen; if your magnets are missing from your kit, check the lid right away, as they may be attached to it.The magnets aren’t great. They didn’t hold the minimal weight of Ellie, even on the refrigerator. I substituted the kit magnets with Neodymium Magnets (see photo) that I had in our craft supplies, which work amazingly. [ ⚠️ Neodymium Magnets are INCREDIBLY STRONG and can be very dangerous if inhaled, ingested,, or introduced to specific medical devices. Use of these magnets are only suggested if your elf is the absolute No Touch kind of elf and if no medical device contraindication exist.]Velcro:The adhesive on the back of the Velcro doesn’t seem conducive to strong adhesion to the elf’s hands, but I have not yet attached them to our little’s elf (Ellie is sprinkled with glitter, so the Velcro would be wasted and not stick bc of the glitter coating), so I can not say for certain.Needle, thread and seam-ripper:Perfect and convenient. The needles are pre-threaded, which is a nice time saver. If your elf isn’t red, you’ll need different thread to re-sew your elf’s feet. Even if you have never hand sewn anything before, it won’t matter; it’s super simple to close the seams back up. (Note: you only have to rip ~3 seams max. to insert the rod and the smaller magnets.)Bendy Rods:The main purpose of this kit for me were these bendy rods. Once I opened the package, I found that I could’ve used a wire cutter and a metal hanger to cut these bendy rods myself, and with probably more stability than these rods provide (though probably not nearly as smooth at the ends without filing/sanding of some sort.) the arm rods were a little too short for our little’s elf and the leg rods were a little too long, but Ellie is a pink elf, as is a requirement in our home, so for the actual elf on the shelf red elf, this may not be the case at all. I found it helpful to create loops at the ends of the leg rods (see photo) and wish I had thought of it for the arm rods, too, though it would have made the already too-short-rods even shorter, so it likely would not have worked in the arms the way it didnin the legs.Conclusion:Though I very easily could have made the same adjustments and additions to our elf from things we already had around the house, for a busy person, having the rods precut, the needles pre-threaded and the majority of the supplies in one prepared tin is convenient and worth the purchase price. 👍🏼

This made it so easy to upgrade my elf lol it was super easy and had all the parts I needed to make my elf more realistic and bed him. Great quality!

I bought this so that I would have more options on how to pose my son's elf. It's fairly easy to use, as long as you have some basic sewing skills. Needle and thread are included, which is nice. The thread color wasn't an exact match, but close enough.The metal rods that go into the arms and legs are a bit longer than the actual elf's arms and legs. That's a good thing, since each elf will have slightly different lengths, so you can customize how long you need each piece to be. The metal rods are easy to trim to size.The magnets included seemed strong, but once sewn inside of the fabric were entirely useless. There are also little Velcro dots that can be added to the hands and feet, but they're just stickers, and peel off of the fabric fairly quickly.Still, even though the magnets and Velcro are pretty useless, the kit helped make it easier to pose the elf in different positions each day. I can't give it 5 stars since half the kit didn't work, but I will give it 4 stars because my son thoroughly enjoyed seeing his elf hanging upside down from his knees on the curtain rod, and caught in the middle of climbing the shelves of his bookcase after having tp'd my son's bedroom.

The media could not be loaded. This Elf on the Shelf doctor kit was exactly what I wanted to make our little elf posable. This is my 1st year doing this and I was surprised to find out that the arms and legs were not bendable at all and I could not find one that was. I used this kit and read the instructions on their website and it was very easy to follow and use. The needles are pre-threaded for you but you do need to tie a knot at the end of the thread to sew it the way I did. I used the wires for the arms and legs and did have to cut it shorter for both but regular scissors worked easily for that. I also added the magnets into the hands and feet so they stick together and he can hang from paper. The fabric in the feet is too thick for mine to hang from his feet but they will stick together when he's posed. Be sure to test your magnets to make sure you're using 2 sides that will stick together when you add them. I added an extra single stitch at the wrist to prevent the magnets from sliding into the arms and that seems to have worked well. They also include 3 sets of white circular velcro to put on the hands if you want and there's adhesive on those so you don't have to sew if you don't want to. I cannot speak to that since I didn't add those. The magnets would not have worked if I did. My elf had seems at the elbows and knees so I had to just pop out 2-3 stitches to get the wire all the way up the arms and legs. Do that on the undersides so it's less visible. I didn't need to redo those either except for one where the thread was coming undone. Overall I am really happy with how this came out and I had a lot of fun doing it too. I'm not great at sewing and found this pretty easy to do. It took me about 45 minutes to do the whole thing. I also bought a set of 3 doll stands that are really great and built each one at different heights so he can stand, kneel or sit.