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

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

Here’s What You’ll Need for Magical Reindeer Food…
Food Ingredients
- Oats
- Sugar sprinkles – red, green are perfect for Christmas
- optional: granulate sugar
Supplies to Make the Bag
- poem printable
- card stock
- glue
- snack-sized bags that zip tight
- hole punch
- ribbon
How Do You Make Reindeer Food and bag?
- Mix oats and sugars
- Scoop about 1/2 cup of food into snack bags
- Print of poem and glue to card stock
- Hole punch a corner of the poem and the snack bag
- Use ribbon to tie the poem to the bag
- 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
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 the recipe and printable:
How To Make Reindeer Food {plus Printable Poem and Bag Idea}
Magical Reindeer Food to guide Santa’s reindeer to your home.
Materials
- 2 cups of oats
- 1 cup of granulated sugar
- red and green sugar crystals
Extra Materials for reindeer food:
- printable poem
- card stock
- scissors
- glue
- hole punch
- ribbon
- snack bags
Instructions
- Mix food ingredients in a large bowl
- Scoop about 1/2 cup of food into snack bags
- print poem and glue it to card stock that is about the same size of the poem
- use a hole punch to make a hole in the corner of your cardstock and in the corn of the bag top
- tie with a ribbon
Notes
On Christmas Eve, before the kids go to bed, let them sprinkle the magic food on the lawn. The shiny crystals will help guide Santa’s reindeer to your home
~Melissa – KidFriendlyThingsToDo.Com

