Everyone is different. My middle daughter would have loved this. Even as a three year old she would love watching things on tv that she thought were scary. She would sit and shake and then jump when the scary thing happened and then she would crack up laughing and look for me and say “Its only tend Mum….only tend” (Only pretend for those that dont understand infant speak)

Maybe more of a high school activity- kids this age would have thought it cool.

To do this to Eight year old little children is disgraceful!

Ummm yes. If anyone was traumatised absolutely. I don’t have a lot of words for this one.

Wonder if they corrected the teacher ?

The children may have been up for it but I believe the teacher went too far in spreading blood around and, at this time of year, making it an elf that was murdered. Why couldn’t they have thought this through and have the elf go missing and they had to find the elf and solve who had kidnapped him (or her).

Sorry this is for children older than 8 in my opinion. This teacher needs to be reprimanded.

Oh my that’s horrible. They could have staged it as he’s missing and left little
Clues to find where he’s hiding. I hope the teacher got in big strife for that – that’s nightmare stuff there

What were they thinking? This is just terrible, if this is what they teach in schools now, they are on the wrong path.

The elf on the shelf is supposed to be fun. Besides at home the parents have to use their imagination and make sure the kids are asleep before do something different.

I don’t think my kids would have liked this either.

Probably should have thought it through a bit more.

I think the activity itself is a good one. I know you his wouldn’t have phase my daughter who’s also in yr 4 at all, but not all kids are the same. I think if he’d distanced it a little from a human murder it wouldn’t have bothered anyone as much (change the blood from red to green maybe).

Yes this goes to far ! Not ok to freak such young kids.

Maybe for older kids but not 8 yr olds! It’s a bit graphic and really should have been run past the parents 1st. If kids love playing detective there r so many kid friendly themes out there like who took the money, who ate the cookies, re create Goldilocks and the 3 bears where detectives r called in to solve that crime. A murder scene is totally wrong!

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 07 Dec 2018 , 5:56 am

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  Approval should have been sought for sure. There are guideline and ratings for DVDs and books and there should be for these type of activities too.

Totally inappropriate in my opinion!

How is this activity part of the curriculum?

I think they went too far they are only in year 4 these kids are too young

I’m a bit on the fence. For say, 10 year olds, yes. But 8 seems a tad young.

I agree that maybe they could have first asked permission to the parents. For the rest I would be fine.