How To Make Reindeer Food {plus Printable Poem and Bag Idea}

Reindeer Food would be a fun addition to a classroom party or any Christmas party. Let the kids mix up some fun food for Santa’s Reindeer and Include the poem in the printable. Kids can sprinkle shiny food out on Christmas Eve to help guide the reindeer to their home. Here’s How to Make Reindeer Food with kids…

How to Make Reindeer Food

Do you love spreading the magic of Christmas? Here are some other fun Rudolph Christmas Crafts that would be fun to make with the kids…

• Paper Bag Rudolph
• Rudolph Lollipop
• Rudolph Treat Bags with Lollipop Nose

I love the reindeer image in this poem. It looks so excited to get some reindeer food on Christmas Eve.

How Do You Make Reindeer Food that Is Safe to Eat for Animals?

• Use food items like oats, mixed seeds,  birdseed, dried cranberries and a little  bit of magical sugar crystal to brighten the food up for reindeer to see at night

How Do You Make Reindeer Dust?

• Reindeer dust is just like magical reindeer food, but with less ingredients. Just mix oats and sparkling sugar crystals for reindeer dust. Another term for reindeer dust or food is reindeer chow

 

Here’s What You’ll Need for Magical Reindeer Food…

(exact measurements are in printable, below)

• Oats
• Sugar sprinkles – red, green are perfect for Christmas
• optional: granulate sugar

Extra Materials for your reindeer food bag:

• poem printable
• card stock
• glue
• snack sized bags that zip tight
• hole punch
• ribbon

How Do You Make Reindeer Food and bag? 

1. Mix oats and sugars
2. Scoop about 1/2 cup of food into snack bags
3. Print of poem and glue to card stock
4. Hole punch a corner of the poem and the snack bag
5. Use ribbon to tie the poem to the bag
6. On Christmas Eve, let kids sprinkle the Reindeer Food onto the lawn to help guide Santa’s reindeer to your home and feed the reindeer

Here’s the recipe and printable:

~Melissa – KidFriendlyThingsToDo.Com