This reindeer meals recipe is a enjoyable and simple Christmas craft that children love! You may whip up this vacation custom in minutes with oatmeal and sugar. We’ve a lot enjoyable sprinkling this festive “meals” over the yard as a snack for Santa’s reindeer!
Similar to my homemade hot chocolate mix and puppy chow, this straightforward reindeer meals recipe additionally makes an ideal selfmade reward for associates, lecturers, and classmates throughout the vacation season.
Why You’ll Love This Reindeer Meals Recipe
It’s a practice in our home to sprinkle “reindeer meals” on our garden on Christmas Eve, to draw Santa’s reindeer. It additionally offers Dancer, Prancer, and firm one thing to eat whereas Santa is inside leaving us presents (and consuming cookies)! Right here’s why you’ll be making this enjoyable craft each Christmas any further:
Fast to make. This magical reindeer meals recipe is such a enjoyable exercise for teenagers, whereas they’re making it and after they’re sprinkling it over the garden afterward!
Pantry components. You want solely two components: oats and sugar. I take advantage of coloured sugar to offer this reindeer meals recipe a Christmassy spin.
Straightforward gifting. Reindeer meals is a simple last-minute hostess reward, or you may make it for associates, neighbors, and lecturers. I used to make the youngsters in my son’s class a little bit bag of reindeer meals to go of their goodie baggage earlier than the vacation break.
Methods to Make Reindeer Meals
To make reindeer meals, all you want is oats (any type) plus white, pink, and inexperienced sugar. You may combine the components and add every thing to a present bag, or, do what I love to do and layer the components right into a piping bag for a reasonably presentation. Right here’s how:
Fill baggage with sugar and oats.Tie the luggage closed and revel in!
Prep. Place your piping baggage into cups and fold the tops over, as when you had been going to fill them with frosting. Collect your reindeer meals components.
Scoop. Scoop the components into the bag. Beginning with the coloured sugar, high that with a layer of white sugar, and eventually, add the oats.
Seal and retailer. Twist and seal the luggage closed. Add a ribbon and be aware of your alternative, and get gifting! You can even retailer your reindeer meals for later, see beneath.
Suggestions and Variations
Shade the sugar your self. When you have granulated sugar however not pink or inexperienced sugar within the pantry, you may coloration white sugar utilizing pink and inexperienced meals coloring. Simply add a couple of drops to a bowl of sugar, and blend.
Be certain that it’s biodegradable. Oats and sugar are secure for sprinkling on the bottom. In case you swap or change the components on this reindeer meals recipe, take care that something you employ isn’t dangerous to the surroundings. Keep away from glitter, for instance. You don’t need any actual woodland creatures choking in your magical reindeer meals!
Change up the vacation. Flip this reindeer meals into bunny meals at Easter. Swap the pink and inexperienced coloured sugar for pink, purple, and/or yellow. You can even layer white and inexperienced sugar to lure a leprechaun on St. Patrick’s Day.
Methods to Use Reindeer Meals
On Christmas Eve, sprinkle reindeer meals exterior on the garden or subsequent to the chimney to beckon Santa’s reindeer your approach! Don’t overlook to have cozy mugs of hot chocolate ready whenever you are available from the chilly.
Reindeer meals is non-perishable, so it lasts within the pantry for months. In case you need to get a head begin in your vacation gifting, make sure you retailer it in an hermetic container in a cool, dry location.
This reindeer meals recipe is a enjoyable and simple Christmas craft concept. It makes use of solely two components: oats and sugar. Youngsters have a lot enjoyable sprinkling this “meals” exterior as a snack for Santa’s reindeer on Christmas Eve!
1/2 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup white sugar
1/8 cup of pink/inexperienced sugar
Combine the oatmeal and sugars collectively, pour them right into a plastic bag, and sprinkle them exterior on the bottom for the reindeer!
