This reindeer meals recipe is a enjoyable and straightforward Christmas craft that youngsters love! You’ll be able to 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 straightforward reindeer meals recipe additionally makes an ideal do-it-yourself present for mates, lecturers, and classmates throughout the vacation season.
Why You’ll Love This Reindeer Meals Recipe
It’s a convention in our home to sprinkle “reindeer meals” on our garden on Christmas Eve, to draw Santa’s reindeer. It additionally provides 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 components. You want solely two components: oats and sugar. I take advantage of coloured sugar to present this reindeer meals recipe a Christmassy spin.
Simple gifting. Reindeer meals is a simple last-minute hostess present, or you may make it for mates, neighbors, and lecturers. I used to make the youngsters in my son’s class a bit of bag of reindeer meals to go of their goodie luggage earlier than the vacation break.
Tips on how to Make Reindeer Meals
To make reindeer meals, all you want is oats (any form) plus white, pink, and inexperienced sugar. You’ll be able to combine the components and add all the things to a present bag, or, do what I love to do and layer the components right into a piping bag for a fairly presentation. Right here’s how:
Fill luggage with sugar and oats.Tie the luggage closed and revel in!
Prep. Place your piping luggage into cups and fold the tops over, as in the event you have been going to fill them with frosting. Collect your reindeer meals components.
Scoop. Scoop the components into the bag. Beginning with the coloured sugar, prime 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 notice of your alternative, and get gifting! You can even retailer your reindeer meals for later, see under.
Suggestions and Variations
Coloration the sugar your self. If in case 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 number of drops to a bowl of sugar, and blend.
Make certain it’s biodegradable. Oats and sugar are secure for sprinkling on the bottom. Should you swap or change the components on this reindeer meals recipe, take care that something you utilize isn’t dangerous to the setting. 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.
Tips on how to Use Reindeer Meals
On Christmas Eve, sprinkle reindeer meals outdoors on the garden or subsequent to the chimney to beckon Santa’s reindeer your means! Don’t neglect to have cozy mugs of hot chocolate ready once you are available in 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, you’ll want to 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 components: oats and sugar. Youngsters have a lot enjoyable sprinkling this “meals” outdoors 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 outdoors on the bottom for the reindeer!
