On Christmas Eve, the kids and I make Magic Reindeer Food, then in the evening, we sprinkle it around in the yard for the reindeer to eat when Santa visits. Here's the main recipe, and a few things you can add to change it around.
Oatmeal
Red sugar sprinkles
Green sugar sprinkles
White Sugar
You can also add any of the following:
Glitter
Bird Seed
Red or Green 'jimmies' or sprinkles
Brown Sugar
Cinnamon
You can mix it up in a small baggie- just add a spoon of oatmeal, and a sprinkling of the rest of the items, then shake the baggie. On Christmas Eve before bed, the kids sprinkle it on the lawn for Santa's Reindeer.
You can also package it in small jars, either pre-mixed, or layered. Baby food jars work nicely. Tie a ribbon around it, and give it to kids as a gift before Christmas Eve. Maybe "Santa" could leave the jars under the tree a day early, with a letter from him asking the kids to help him out by leaving some extra food out for his reindeer!
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Too bad I didn't read this before December 6. That's St. Nicholas' feast day, and I could have suggested leaving the reindeer food for the kids that day.
When I lived in FL and worked for this party store one Christmas they made up bags of reindeer food and would give them to the kids that came in with their parents. I think the manager just cut up some rafia and thru in some glitter and stuff like that. I didn't really like that idea because it wasn't stuff that would just disentigrate and not something animals could eat, so it was going to just litter the ground.
The oatmeal is a good idea, we always just put carrots out when we were kids.