Magic Reindeer Food (+ Free Printable Labels)
Ready to feed Santa’s reindeer?!
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.
Magic Reindeer Food
Cute DIY Recipe Craft for your kids to enjoy the holiday spirit!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup oatmeal
- 2 tablespoons red sugar sprinkles
- 2 tablespoons green sugar sprinkles
Directions
1
Layer the oats, sprinkles, and colored sugar in a small jars.
2
Tie ribbon around the jar.
3
Attach the free printable label/tag.
For this craft you’ll need the following supplies:
- small jar or Ziploc bag
- ribbon or string to tie tag
- jingle bells (optional)
- Free Reindeer Food Printable Label found here
FREE Printable for the 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! 😀
Make soft gingerbread play dough this Christmas with the kids!
Love love love this!!!!!!
I am so relief all the ingredients are edible, thank you Collin and Lina! Every year I hold my breath every time I see a recipe that is meant to “help” the reindeer when actually is hurting animals…
There’s always a negative nancy. I don’t think a teaspoon of glitter in a front lawn is harming wildlife. Many people in neighborhood do not even have wildlife around.
Totally agree Rebe! The birds and squirrels eat the mix and get sick from glitter. Ignore trolls!
I did this last year. .. recorded my son reading the “magic poem”…. then sprinkled the lawn. … if you throw in some glitter and loose sequins it will give it a sparkleing effect. The kids loved it! … smiled from ear to ear! ..
please dont add glitter to reindeer foodits really bad for the birds
too cute!
I’m so relieved to see that this recipe doesn’t include glitter which is toxic and harmful to birds and pets! Thank you!
I’ll have to make this since my darn reindeer poop order got cancelled! lol j/k
I am getting ready to make these for my daughter’s Christmas party….except I don’t have the jingle bells, which now I totally need to get! Anybody got a “hip” deal on jingle bells? 😉
I saw some jingle bell necklaces at the dollar tree last week.
This is an awesome recipe! I’d like to add that in addition to this, last year I made a version of this using oats, treat mix, and dehydrated fruits and veggies for my various smaller pets; four guinea pigs, mouse, and bird. I had the bottles put in a basket and left for the kids next to their Santa cookie plate, with a note that asked them to give treats to even the smallest members of the household on behalf of Santa. The kids felt so accomplished being Santa’s helpers.
My daughter came home with one of these last year from her kindergarten class and it was such a hit! Birds ate the oats but the glitter remained on top of the snow. The glitter was silver and she used a baggiebwhich is much cheaper.
JA- yes, Michaels has a 40% off coupon regular price and they sell different sizes of jingle bells there
This is so cute! I wish I had the “craft” job at my 3rd graders class party. I have the “game”. Any one have a good idea for that??
Pin the nose on Rudolph is a cute game, or the left, right game. The kids always enjoyed the left, right game. If you aren’t familiar with that game I am sure you could google it. I t is quite fun.
You can also do “pin the nose on the snowman.” In the past I have made a bowling game using 2 liter bottles (I painted them to look like penguins), a present toss game where I wrapped empty boxes and had the kids toss them down a “chimney” (just a big box I wrapped in brick paper). Another good one is to have kids wrap each other up in toilet paper and decorate them with hats and scarves like snowmen. Sounds crazy but it’s fun. Can you tell I’ve done a few Christmas parties?
Maybe get a gift for the classroom or treats for the kids or pencils etc. and wrap it up with multiple layers of wrapping paper. Play music and when music stops the child unwraps one layer and you keep going until the present is revealed.
Thanks for all of the ideas!
This is such a cute idea. I made some last year & gave most away to the kids at church and at a craft fair.
We do this as well! We add edible glitter (or sugar sprinkles) so we don’t harm any animals (it’s like tinkerbell’s fairy dust- it helps them fly!), and make daddy sprinkle it on the roof on Christmas Eve! That’s by far the most fun! After all, the reindeer land on the roof, not on the lawn! Haha 😉 My hubby wasn’t thrilled, but our kids (and myself) laughed until it hurt when daddy climbed up to sprinkle the food!
That’s too funny 🙂
We did these at my son’s Christmas party last year but I had it set up like a station so the kids could put them together. We used ziplocks and had a different printable that staples over the top but same poem.
Cheap idea – use baby jars
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We made magic reindeer hay when my daughter was in the 2nd grade for her class and Girl Scout troop. We took it to the mall and had “Santa” put magic on it. That was 18 years ago. We had extras for years…this year I mailed the very last bag to her to use for her 3 year old and 9 month old. We never spread it in the yard, we put it on a plate…much easier for the “reindeer” to eat.
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