Families and office planners looking for Santa and elves for hire in Pittsburgh often ask about little people for hire as well — professional little people elves who work the photo line while Santa stays in the chair.
Call (412) 945-6270 if you want little people for hire on the same clock as Santa, or as an add-on after Santa is already booked.
Little People Elves for Hire at Parties and Openings
Little people elves for hire are professional entertainers in costume. They greet, point the line, hand candy canes, and keep gift bags off the floor. They are not a second Santa. They are little people entertainment booked for corporate parties, store openings, holiday events, and photo lines in Downtown lobbies, Strip District storefronts, and South Hills clubs.
A gym or a hotel foyer is the usual room. A living-room house call rarely needs the extra cast. If the night is one family in Squirrel Hill, start with Santa. If the night is a two-hour open house in Lawrenceville, little people for hire give the line someone to talk to while Santa sits.
Book them with Santa on one call so parking, load-in, and the hard out match. We are insured. If the venue wants a certificate of insurance for extra performers, we send the COI for the whole booking. For pricing, call with the date and how many elves you want in the room.
Little People Entertainment on a Photo Line
Little people entertainment works best when someone is directing the queue. Elves keep kids facing the chair, keep drinks off the seat, and give shy guests a smaller person to say hello to before they walk up to Santa. Store openings in the Strip District and office parties Downtown use that pattern: elves at the start of the line, Santa in the chair, photos that actually move.
Tell us the tone. A company Christmas party with staff kids is a different briefing than an adults-only after-dinner hour in a hotel. Little people elves for hire still need a green room or a quiet hall, a door that will open, and a cell that answers. A pin drop with no loading dock is how a tight window slips.
Mrs. Claus is a separate add-on. Nutcracker soldiers on stilts are a separate add-on. Little people for hire are their own look. Name the count on the first call so we do not send a single elf into a room that needed two.
How to Book Little People Elves with Santa
Start with Santa, then add little people elves for hire. The traditional (non-real-beard) Santa is the lower-cost Santa option when cameras stay back. Close portraits still need the natural beard on Santa; the elves do not change that choice. Fox Chapel, Cranberry Township, Mt. Lebanon, and Sewickley all take the same briefing: parking, door, count of helpers, hard out.
Early December weeknights hold. The Saturday before Christmas fills first. Call even if the guest list is still moving. A maybe does not hold performers.
For the rest of the holiday cast, see Mrs. Claus and elves. For the office run-of-show, see corporate party Santa. Little people entertainment is the photo-line half of those nights, not a replacement for Santa.
Have the date, the venue, and whether this is little people elves for hire with Santa or a later add-on. We will match the cast to the room. Cranberry Township store openings, Downtown hotel foyers, and South Hills club photo lines all use the same clock: load-in, greet, photos, hard out. Tell us if the floor is a gym or a carpeted lobby so the elves know how the line will move. Little people for hire on a Saturday in December need the same guest-list note as Santa. Put every performer on it. Little people entertainment is still a timed booking: the same hard out, the same door, the same cell. If the opening is a storefront with a short sidewalk, say so. If the party is a ballroom with a long carpet, say that.
Request a Santa Booking
Call (412) 945-6270 to book little people for hire for a Pittsburgh party, opening, or photo line.