Magic Reindeer Food (+ Free Printable Labels)
Making magic reindeer food has become a fun Christmas Eve tradition in our home and makes a great small gift or holiday party favor. The kids can even make it themselves and give it to their friends. Last year, we attended a Christmas party where the hostess set up a cute station for the kids to put together their own reindeer food. It was a huge hit and fun activity!
Depending on how big your jars are, you may need more or less “food” so adjust this to your jar size.
For this craft you’ll need:
* 1/2 cup oatmeal
* 2 tablespoons red sugar sprinkles
* 2 tablespoons green sugar sprinkles
* small jar or Ziploc bag
* ribbon or string to tie tag
* jingle bells (optional)
* Free Reindeer Food Printable Label found here
Directions:
Layer the oats, sprinkles. and colored sugar in a small jars and attach this cute label/tag! Both jar styles are available at Michaels Crafts for around $1 each before coupons.
Have the kids sprinkle some magic food outside on Christmas Eve for Santa’s reindeer! They’ll need some fuel for the big night! 😀
Written by Lina for Hip2Save. Lina is a proud mom of 2 small kids who loves photography, all holidays, cooking, thrift store makeovers, bargain shopping, and DIY makeovers. Her goal is to create a beautiful life and stylish home on a dime!
THANK U!!!! I had forgotten to make it yet! My kids LOVE doing this 🙂
I did this already but yours looks nicer so now I want to redo mine lol but pretty sure my kids don’t care about the packaging as much as I do!
I am so doing this…!!!! Thx and Merry Christmas!!!
I tried this last year but when my kids went outside to check if the reindeer ate it they were disappointed that it was still there.
That’s one more task for parents to take care off after kids go to bed…go outside and eat the oatmeal from the ground, lol
That is what a shop-vac is for or even a little handheld dirt vac.
So smart!
Warning,The birds will eat this and spray red or green poo all over your house and cars.
#Ant&RoachInvitation 🙁
Sounds best left in a jar next to the plate of cookies & write in the note for Santa to feed it to the reindeer on the roof! #NoMess 😉
Thank you for suggesting sugar sprinkles and not glitter. (My daughter got some made with glitter from her teacher..so bad for animals)
Lina,
Just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and to thank you for all of the recipes and crafts that you post!
This is so cute…I might steal the kid making station idea for next year! We just did carrots for the reminder. My husband chews them up and then leaves some carrot crumbs outside for the kids to see they ate them!
Made it! Just oatmeal and red/green sugar sprinkles. If you throw them on the grass you can’t tell for sure if it was eaten or not by the reindeers 😉. Need to print the tags for next year so we don’t forget. Thank you. This is one cute project❤️👍👍