The elves are back! From Thanksgiving to December 1, most of the elves on the shelves will return to their families during the so-called Boy Scout Return Week, and they often arrive with great fanfare, from floating on a hot air balloon to riding on a reindeer to pull an edible chocolate sleigh.

Here are some elves from Long Island-they magically return to the North Pole every night on Christmas Eve, reporting whether the children in the house are naughty or well-behaved-appeared this year.

Just like Santa Claus has a helper, the elves also have their own team on Long Island to help them with their arrival and antics. Here are some:

Alyssa Guidice of Hicksville is the owner of A Pound & A Half Cookies and Cupcakes. She makes fairy biscuit cakes for $25 each, apoundandahalf.com.

Kristen Zingales of Wantagh sells post office scenery and appliances for $28 on her Facebook page Celebrate In Style.

Stephanie Saverese of Long Beach sells printable paper-cut scenes for $5.99 and creates a turkey camouflage at her Etsy store, Yellow Cow Studio.

Melinda Stace of Hicksville is the owner of Facebook-based Thems The Breaks Chocolate Shop. She makes chocolate sleds and fragile chocolate boxes with small wooden hammers for $10.

Ronkonkoma's Regina Dixson and Farmingdale's Cindy Munoz rented a yard sign for $55 on Facebook's Yard Card Mothers, which said "You have been genieized" for 24 hours.

Wantagh's Kelly Burdewick and Josephine Genua sell a pre-made kit for $40 that allows elves to perform antics within 24 days; email elfkitsli@gmail.com.

Laurie Ferrara of Seaford offered a $60 sprite balloon on her Facebook page Balloons by Laurie.

Pancake the Elf appeared at Hegarty's house in Levittown this year with a surprise-three little elves! 42-year-old legal secretary Donna Hegarty said that just like the Hegarty family, which includes 9-year-old Brielle and twins Kyleigh and 5-year-old Brayden, Pancake’s elf children are Snowflake and twins Candy Cane and Buddy. On the morning after Thanksgiving, the elves appeared on a shelf near the family's white brick fireplace with a banner that read "I'm back."

Rose Walker, 70, is a Nassau County Councillor who lives in Hicksville. She has two elves who came to her house to look after her 6-year-old grandson Brady (left) and 9-year-old Lucas, 11-year-old Alexis and 13-year-old Aiden. This year, the elves Sparkle and Connor returned to Thanksgiving. "They are so excited," Walker said of the children.

"He showed up downstairs with a new pet!" said 9-year-old Cobbe McCue from Massapequa Park. He looked around to see if his elf Charlie had returned. "I couldn't find him upstairs, but I found him downstairs." The pet in question was not a live animal, but a stuffed animal arctic fox. Charlie himself appeared in the belly of a huge fairy balloon, and Cobb popped it out immediately. "He thinks the elves can't breathe here," said 51-year-old father Steve McCue, who is half-retired. Charlie also brought some toys and candies.

Dylan McKie of Hicksville, 11, discovered that his elf had returned on December 1, sitting on a sleigh made of chocolate pulled by reindeer. "Small things like this only make kids so excited," said his mother Danielle McKie, 46 years old and an accountant's administrator.

The elves of the Reynolds family returned to their Wantagh home with their entourage. Reynolds has three elves-Charlie, Violet, and Snickers-they will tell Santa Claus about whether Reynolds' boys-10-year-old Owen and twins Sean and Liam, 12-year-old-are naughty or kind during this holiday season. This year, the elves came here with a post office background, a nutcracker and a mailbox. The boys can send letters to Santa Claus so that the elves can take them back to the North Pole. "It's so funny to see their faces," 46-year-old mother Marybeth Reynolds (Marybeth Reynolds), a speech pathologist, said of the arrival of what her family calls the Christmas crew. "This brought us a bit of magic and joy for the start of the season."

9-year-old Adrianna Allocco and her 6-year-old sister Alessandra found their elves Jazzie and Jazzie under the Christmas tree at their home in Massapequa Park. Blubblegum-This year, they came here with a third elf, a reindeer and a elf. Balloons and chocolate snacks are placed in fragile boxes.

"Every year, our little elves come back in hot air balloons," said Heather Haverbusch, a 40-year-old sonographer from Massapequa. She has two children, 10-year-old Alison and 5-year-old Ryan. His name was Willie McGee, and he came to the restaurant; this year, he came near the front window of the family on the morning after Thanksgiving. Haverbusch explained that the elves usually arrive between Thanksgiving and December 1.

Sisters Laila (left) and Makayla Toal, 6 and 10 years old, found their elf Sparkles on a shelf on the kitchen island of their Holtsville home, with a transparent balloon inside. A note told them to go outside to look for surprises-the sisters took a group photo with a lawn sign, which read: "You have been elfized!" 24 hours later, the sign magically came to another elf's house on Long Island. 

On the morning after Thanksgiving, Maura LaManna's house elves came to her dining table invisibly. "The elf is wearing a turkey costume," said Ramana, a 44-year-old nurse from Long Beach. She has two children, 9-year-old Anthony and 6-year-old Jackson.

When 5-year-old Mason Gonzales of Williston Park returned the following year, his elf Jack returned and brought him a gift-a The chocolate cake with the words "Surprise-I'm back" on it made him very excited. "He started to learn how to read," said 38-year-old mother Cinthia Gonzales of Mason, who is in kindergarten. "He saw the word'come back' right away." Mason has a younger sister, Mia, who is only one year old, but she is too young to understand the elves' traditions—not yet. 

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