Friday, December 14, 2018

Remember The Reindeer And The Elves


We all know enough to leave a snack for Santa on Christmas Eve. He works hard all night to deliver gifts to good girls and boys. Cookies and milk are what we always leave out for Santa.

Did you ever consider that the reindeer are working hard too? They are able to eat snow so they need nothing to drink but I have a recipe for Magic Reindeer Food that the children can spread outside before going to bed. It makes the reindeer so happy.

MAGIC REINDEER FOOD

In a small zipper food storage bag or empty shaker container, mix:
1/2 cup uncooked oatmeal
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup red or green sugar crystals (as used for cake decorating)


Package Magic Reindeer food in small food storage bags or holiday gift bags.

Now that you have made the magic reindeer food, the rest is easy. Before the children go to bed and have visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads, let them run outside and sprinkle the magic reindeer food around the yard. Away from the house might be good. Santa's reindeer like a little space.

After gifts have been opened in the morning, everyone can take a look to see if the food was eaten.

Are we done? Nope. We still have to thank the elves who help Santa all year. Let's make some Elf Donuts.

You will need a box of Cheerios, some small tubes of frosting (the more colors the better), sprinkles, and perhaps cinnamon sugar mixture. Perhaps you like chocolate, powdered sugar, peanut butter, or Nutella. Anything you might use to decorate normal sized donuts.

Squeeze a bit of frosting onto a Cheerio. If you wish then you can dip it into a bit of the sprinkles or maybe colored sugar. Or you can leave it plain.

Place the Elf Donuts on a saucer or in plastic sandwich bags. The sandwich bags might make them easier for Santa to take to the North Pole.

Now we have a happy Santa, reindeer, and elves. And these are projects that require little supervision for the children to stay busy on that last day before Christmas.

16 comments:

  1. This will be the first year in 20 that we are not setting out Reindeer food. My youngest granddaughter ( who visits at Christmas) has come to the age where she no longer believes. It’s an end to an era.

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    1. Oh my. I still put out food for the reindeer and elves as well as for Santa.

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  2. Wonderful ideas. Have a great Christmas. Diane

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  3. What cute ideas! I will pass this on to my daughter with our gr-sons.

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  4. Oh no, Alice has not thought of this idea for those past many years.

    But it is always not late to learn something interesting.



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    1. We learn something new every day if we are wise enough to see it.

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  5. I never heard about that before, Emma - it sounds great! (As you saw on my blog: Berlin's Santas use motorcycles... :-)

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  6. Thanks for these suggestions, Emma. The younger granddaughters may enjoy them. Thus was the first time I had heard abiut them and the reindeer food was my favorite.

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    1. I'll bet the boys will like them too. Finding a place to feed the deer is a lot of fun.

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  7. How sweet of you to remember the assistants of Santa dear Emma!

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    1. They are the ones who make sure I get my chocolate covered cherries every year. I try to treat them right.

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