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One thing that makes the holidays fun and cheerful is having fun traditions that you can share with your family.
Making Reindeer Food for Christmas Eve is a fun activity that your kids will be sure to enjoy. It is quick and easy, and makes a great gift too.
Christmas Eve Reindeer Food Ingredients:
- Oatmeal
- Red and green food coloring
- Sugar (optional)
- Red and green sugar crystals (optional)
- A small jar
- A circle of felt and a ribbon tie for a fancier lid (optional)
Christmas Eve Reindeer Food Preparation:
Use the red and green food coloring to create red and green colored oatmeal. Next, together with plain oatmeal, you can create alternating layers of green, white, and red oatmeal in your jar.
For a different look, you can use layers of the colored oatmeal and combine it with red, green, and white sugar. Or just use the layers of sugar for a sand art type look.
Using Your Reindeer Food
Since Reindeer like their food fresh, it is usually best to make your Reindeer Food on Christmas Eve, but you can make it in advance if you have to. And then on Christmas Eve, have your kids take their jar of Reindeer Food outside and spread it on your lawn, patio, window sill, or whatever works best for you.
To make your new little holiday tradition even more special, you might recite a Christmas Eve Reindeer Food poem (this one uses all of the Reindeer's names), such as:
- Come Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen,
- Come Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen,
- And of course deer Rudolf, please come for a snack,
- Bring Santa to my house to leave a toy from his sack.
Although putting out the Reindeer Food is a big part of the fun, they will get quite a kick out of seeing the Reindeer Food half eaten and mashed into the ground the next morning too. {hint, hint, hint}
Making Reindeer Food Tips
Although you can use left-over baby food jars or any other jars or small containers that you have around the house, you can find a wide assortment of jars at The Container Store.
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