This little elf is magic!  After the children have named him their behavior improves as you remind him/her that the elf is watching. Each morning the elf mysteriously changes position and it is great fun finding him and checking what he is up to. He hangs from the Christmas tree, dangles from the chandelier, and sometimes has tea with a Teddy Bear or on occasion Barbie. He can be dressed and redressed and loves to eat chocolate kisses which he forgets to clean up and leaves wrappers around and perhaps a smudge of chocolate left on his face. The genius is that the elf can't be touched by human hands. The children take this quite seriously. He flies to the North Pole to report to Santa which is a great encourager of good behavior. This worked on a charm on my less than perfect granddaughter (whom I love dearly).  I haven't heard one parent complain about this wonderful elf.