Coming up with enough Elf on the Shelf setup ideas to get your family through more than three weeks of December can become near torture if you're not feeling up to crafting elaborate scenes for the elf, let alone setting an alarm to move the damn thing at all. Although there are definitely ways to keep Elf on the Shelf simple [1], we're suckers for the creative and hilarious setups [2] we find on Instagram.

Take a peek at some of our favourite setups from 2020 (so far) and 2018 to get a bit of inspiration for what to do with your kids' elf (maybe it'll be doing yoga?).