A mum who discovered her son's 'elf on the shelf' had mysteriously lost a leg was forced to spend hours concocting an elaborate cover story to keep the magic alive. Lauren Weir introduced the elf to her four-year-old son Tommy for the first time on December 1 but that evening she was horrified to discover that his right leg had torn off and was nowhere to be found.
The 30-year-old then scrambled to salvage her son's beloved elf by stitching the hole from his lost leg closed and coming up with a cover story to explain the missing limb. She staged a dinosaur attack using the schoolboy's toys and explained that the 'naughty' beasts had eaten the elf's leg - rendering him an amputee.
When Tommy expressed concern about how his elf would get around without his leg, the creative mum even 'put a call in to Santa' and had an elf-sized wheelchair 'delivered' the next day. Lauren posted a video about the toy's ordeal online with the caption: "This elf is going to take over my life," after spending hours stitching his leg, building a Lego wheelchair and staging the scenes.
