Yep. They can look into finding a soup kitchen to give it to.

None of the nearby soup kitchens or food banks are set up to accept donations of prepared food; it seems like it's illegal for them to, for health-and-safety reasons. They could give it to people from their church, and ask them to donate the groceries they'd usually have used over the course of the week to a food bank, though.

Okay! They'll do that. Also they're upset that there are humans who go hungry. That's terrible. 

Yeah. There are programs to help people, but it's hard to help everybody who needs it.

Well. The princesses'll think of something.

Cool.

Shaney gets the church phone tree started calling everyone; this doesn't turn up enough people to take everything, but she encourages the people who show up to take extra to give to their friends and neighbors, and that takes care of most of it.

And do humans like Elf food?

It's delicious.

Oh good!!!

Yup!

Life continues; Shaney takes them into town a few days later to get a card of their own to use on Amazon and see the music shop.

They are so so excited about the music shop.

The shopkeeper is confused at first but glad to show them all the things! He doesn't know how they're made, not in the kind of detail they want anyway, but he can tell them just about anything they might want to know about how they work and the music theory reasons for why they work that way.

Then they'll talk to him until the shop closes, utterly fascinated.

Shaney has to be home to let the kids in before that, but if they really want to stay she can tell them how to get a cab ride back to the farm - expensive - or check how close the bus goes.

They can walk, they don't mind!!

That's, uh, quite a long way, and it'll be hard to find them if they get lost, and she's not sure there's a route that's safe, walking.

...what are the dangers? Wild animals? They can make a bow and arrows before they go.

...uh, no. Most of what's between here and there is farms, and lots of farmers don't like strangers on their land, also they'd have to cross the highway and she's not sure where there's an underpass.

Taking the bus probably solves those problems, and it's not free but it's cheap. She'd have to check though.

Okay. 

She checks. It doesn't go very close, but it does put them on the right side of the highway and between being able to follow the roads and her knowledge of which of her neighbors are relaxed about trespassers, they should be fine. They should still have a phone so they can call her if they get lost or anything happens, though... she does have time to take them phone shopping now if they're quick about it, but it might be a better idea to just get a cheap one and they can decide what they want when they have more time to think about it.

Sure! How do phones work.

If they get a nice phone it'll work a lot like the tablet; cheap ones only do phone calls, though. She shows them how phone calls work by calling the shop they're in.

Cool!!!

Yup!

So (she checks online), she can get them a cheap phone that just does that for about $50 - $20 for the phone and $30 for the service for a month - or smartphones that work like the tablet start at about $100 for a really cheap one, and they might not be able to find a really cheap one here, it might be more like $150 for the cheapest one they could get right now, plus $30 for the service for a month.

Getting the cheap phone for now seems like the obvious thing to do. Or they could just take a cab, a cab from here to there would also be about $50.

They are so confused by the numbers and will do the thing she thinks they should do.

Taking the cab is safer, but if they get the cheap phone they'll still have it if this situation comes up again soon.