The kids and I have been making Magic Reindeer Food as part of our Advent calendar for years now. At first, the food was a mixture of old fashioned oats and glitter. Then, I learned how dangerous glitter can be for animals or small children when ingested. From then on, we made our reindeer food with only edible ingredients. Of course, oats are still part of the mixture but instead of craft glitter, we use edible glitter like red and green cake sprinkles.
This year, we added a few more ingredients to make it more like trail mix. After all, those reindeer have such a long journey and they’ll need the extra carbs and sugar to that fuel flight.
Emmalynn, Allana and I had fun searching through the pantry for snacks the reindeer might enjoy. Along with the oats and edible glitter, we added raisins, dried cranberries, Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch, Corn Flakes, peanuts, gum drops, mini marshmallows, Cheerios, pumpkin seeds and wasabi peas. Wasabi peas might seem like an odd addition, but I thought the reindeer might like a little heat on the way back to the frigid North Pole.
After we combined our ingredients, we poured the mix into Ziploc bags and added the how-to poem. This printable Magic Reindeer Food poem tag can be found here.
On Christmas Eve just before bed, the kids, Auntie Simone and I will sprinkle the Reindeer Food in the yard. Of course, we always leave carrots for the reindeer next to Santa’s cookies and milk too.
That reindeer food looks yummy. Cute poem.
This is adorable!! I will have to try it.
I LOVE IT!!! Thank you for sharing the tag from HHF!!! What a wonderful tradition for you and your Happy Buddies. Merry Christmas!!!
We make reindeer food every year … but one year someone made trial mix for the kids and my husband told her we would love to throw it out in the yard – lol!
What ever the reindeer don’t eat, the raccoons will surely love too. lol
I make the reindeer food with red and green sugar cake sprinkles, too – love the idea of making it into a trail mix! 🙂 My nieces out in Seattle love getting Santa letters with reindeer food included. This year I got to get their actual hand printed letters to Santa to help me create the Santa Letters for them – I love that at 10 they still believe! 🙂
Have a Very Merry Christmas, Denise! 🙂
Celebrating with Chuck
Allana is 10 and still believes too. She even wrote that fact in her letter to Santa. 🙂
I saw your post on WW. Thanks for the great idea! My cousin made us this very addictive corn flakes and malted milk powder Christmas mix, so I’ll be glad to donate some to the needy reindeer. I also saw your Advent calender post, and I am pinning it to Pinterest for next year. Where did you find the cabinet with all the little doors? Fantastic!
I bought this box years ago at Bed, Bath and Beyond. It’s so loved that the tiny pins are starting to fall out of the little doors. Target has some nicer styles. Check the clearance aisle after Christmas.
Ok, that is a really cool idea! I’d be eating the reindeer food. =)
LOVE this. I think they might like better than the carrot we leave for them. 🙂
Cute idea! That was so smart to use candy sprinkles instead of real glitter!
Oh my goodness, that’s the prettiest reindeer food I’ve ever seen! What a great activity to do with the kids!
we made this before for the kids many years ago will try this for the grands next year as they will be old enough then come see me at http://shopannies.blogspot.com
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