This reindeer meals recipe is a enjoyable and straightforward Christmas craft that children love! You may whip up this vacation custom in minutes with oatmeal and sugar. Now we have 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 simple reindeer meals recipe additionally makes an ideal home made reward for mates, academics, and classmates in the course of 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 longer:
Fast to make. This magical reindeer meals recipe is such a enjoyable exercise for youths, whereas they’re making it and after they’re sprinkling it over the garden afterward!
Pantry substances. You want solely two substances: oats and sugar. I take advantage of coloured sugar to offer this reindeer meals recipe a Christmassy spin.
Straightforward gifting. Reindeer meals is a straightforward last-minute hostess reward, or you may make it for mates, neighbors, and academics. I used to make the children in my son’s class just a little bag of reindeer meals to go of their goodie luggage earlier than the vacation break.
How you can Make Reindeer Meals
To make reindeer meals, all you want is oats (any type) plus white, purple, and inexperienced sugar. You may combine the substances and add all the pieces to a present bag, or, do what I love to do and layer the substances right into a piping bag for a reasonably presentation. Right here’s how:
Fill luggage with sugar and oats.Tie the luggage closed and luxuriate in!
Prep. Place your piping luggage into cups and fold the tops over, as in the event you had been going to fill them with frosting. Collect your reindeer meals substances.
Scoop. Scoop the substances into the bag. Beginning with the coloured sugar, high that with a layer of white sugar, and at last, add the oats.
Seal and retailer. Twist and seal the luggage closed. Add a ribbon and notice of your alternative, and get gifting! You can even retailer your reindeer meals for later, see beneath.
Ideas and Variations
Coloration the sugar your self. If in case you have granulated sugar however not purple or inexperienced sugar within the pantry, you’ll be able to coloration white sugar utilizing purple and inexperienced meals coloring. Simply add a number of drops to a bowl of sugar, and blend.
Make certain it’s biodegradable. Oats and sugar are protected for sprinkling on the bottom. If you happen to swap or change the substances on this reindeer meals recipe, take care that something you employ isn’t dangerous to the atmosphere. 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 purple 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.
How you can Use Reindeer Meals
On Christmas Eve, sprinkle reindeer meals exterior on the garden or subsequent to the chimney to beckon Santa’s reindeer your manner! Don’t neglect to have cozy mugs of hot chocolate ready whenever you are available in from the chilly.
Reindeer meals is non-perishable, so it lasts within the pantry for months. In case you wish 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 straightforward Christmas craft concept. It makes use of solely two substances: 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 purple/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!
