The Five Little Elves song is a fun Christmas counting song that is even more fun when you use our free five little elves printable puppets!
This cute Christmas counting song is sung to the tune of ‘Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed’, but this time there are five little elves and they are jumping on Santa’s sleigh! Kids will love using the printable elf puppets to act out the song as you sing it together.
Do you know the Five Little Elves Christmas song?
This is an adorable Christmas counting song with cheeky little Christmas elves as the main characters!
This song is perfect for a group time activity in your classroom, or for having fun singing with your kids at home.
Kids will love acting out the song with the elf puppets, as they work on language skills and maths skills. This song is a great way to introduce or practice the concept of simple subtraction as your kids count how many elves are left after each one runs away!
These cute elf puppets could also be used for story telling, or as props for a Christmas themed playdough set up, or Christmas imaginative play.
For more elf fun try this adorable elf craft printable which is a great name recognition activity for preschoolers.
And for more fun Christmas counting songs, check out our Five Little Christmas trees printable puppets!
Five Little Elves Song Lyrics.
This adorable Christmas counting song is sung to the tune of ‘Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed’,
Here’s the Five Little Elves song lyrics:
Five Little Elves Song
Five little elves jumping on the sleigh,
One jumped off and ran away!
Mama called Santa and Santa did say,
“No more elves jumping on the sleigh!”
Continue the song with four, three, two and one elf, until no more elves are left, then sing..
No more elves jumping on the sleigh,
They all jumped off and ran away!
Five Little Elves Printable Puppets
To make singing this song even more fun, we’ve made a set of cheeky little elf puppets and a sleigh to go along with the song!
Kids will have fun acting out the song, and counting down as each elf jumps on the sleigh and then runs away!
To make the Christmas Elves puppets you’ll need to download the free printable (scroll down for the link), and print the elves and the sleigh. You can print the elves onto regular printer paper and laminate them, but the sleigh will need to be printed onto cardstock so it will stand up on it’s own.
After cutting out the elves we taped them onto craft sticks to turn them into puppets, but you could also glue them onto clothes pegs so you could peg them onto the sleigh.
Then we cut out the sleigh and folded the tabs at each side to make it stand up.
We added a few Christmas decorations to set the scene and we were ready to sing!
The Five Little Elves free printable puppet set includes five cheeky elf puppets, a sleigh, and a printable page with song words.
This printable is an A4 sized pdf file, you will need a pdf reader such as adobe acrobat to open it. It will fit to print on US ‘letter sized’ paper, just be sure to select ‘fit’ or ‘shrink to fit’ from your printer options to allow for printer margins.
Click here to download the free printable Christmas elves puppet set.
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More Fun Christmas Activities
If your kids loved this fun Christmas activity they might also love these easy, print and go, Christmas activities:
These fun Christmas mazes will keep the kids busy!
The kids will have lots of fun with this Christmas search and find printable.
Keep the kids busy making these free printable Christmas tags to color.
If you are looking for even more fun, free printable, Christmas activities, you can find all of our Christmas printables here, including games and activities for kids, advent printables, gift tags, wrapping paper, gift boxes and more!
Ctrl+P! Love them. Printing now to use with my little ones when we get home from school/ballet/miscellaneous activities. Thank you! x
I hope you guys had fun with them!
Thank you – these are gorgeous – they’ll be ready for church – come Sunday!
The second page gives a failure (page is black) :(
Can someone send me the printable version?
The pdf has three pages and they all load fine when I test them. Perhaps there was a glitch with your internet and my server, and trying again may resolve your issue. Also make sure you are opening the file with a pdf reader like acrobat.
Would love to print but don’t know the password!
I’m sorry you are having trouble printing the pdf file.
You need to open the file in a pdf reader (such acrobat), not image editing software. You will only get a prompt for a password if you are trying to open the pdf file in some kind of editing software as that is not allowed. Hope that helps.
Thank you for sharing your talents. I have been looking everywhere for elf ideas. I do not have artistic talents. so thanks again. I am also looking for an elf boot to put a few presents in.
your printables are always brilliant and so much fun
Thankyou
Gilly from Cornwall England