Christmas is just over a week away so parents all over the world are busy getting their kids in the festive spirit. But one mum's Elf on the Shelf prank backfired completely when their family pooch mysteriously made the elf toy disappear - leaving her kids devastated.
Jessika See, 32, from Louisiana, USA, had set up a scene involving her son's Elf on the Shelf toy and a pile of flour. She placed her son Rafe's, aged nine, toy named Rudy in the flour so it would look like the mischievous elf was doing snow angels.
However, when she returned from the school run that afternoon she realised that the elf toy had disappeared from the scene and he was nowhere to be found.