Magical Reindeer Food

My kids and I make magical reindeer food every year, because they love putting food out for Santa's reindeer on Christmas Eve. This year I decided to give it to their classmates as a cute little holiday treat.

The tag reads...

I found free printable tags from Tomkat Studio, but I wanted to alter the saying a little so I made my own. The reindeer is just a shape I made in the Paint program on my computer. Feel free to print the tag for your own use. Just right click on the image, then save it to your computer.  I just open it in Word or Publisher and copy the image for each tag I want to print.

Magical Reindeer Food

to make 75 bags

 

6 cups granulated sugar

1/2 cup red sprinkles

1/2 cup green sprinkles

 3 1/2 - 18oz containers of oats

1. In a large bowl mix the sugar and sprinkles. 

2. Place 1/4 cup of oats in a each gift bag.

3. Place 1 Tablespoon of the sugar mixture in each gift bag. 

I use to use glitter instead of sprinkles, but I found out that the glitter can harm our little woodland friends.

My kids love putting this out with some carrots for the reindeer. It even gets better when something around here actually eats it! 

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My Outdoor Christmas Decorations

This weekend I completed our outside decorations. 

I decided to go with a red and silver theme this year. I am really happy with how it came out!

For the swag on the door, I bought a premade swag and added a few floral picks and a bow.

I got the swag, picks (some new, some I had), and ribbon from Micheal's for about $10 all together.

The flower pots are the same ones I use year round and showed in my other porch post. I was going to remove the soil but decided it could be useful to hold my arrangement in place so I just left it be.

I used a full piece of pine garland I had in my basement and cut it in half to fill the top of the pots. For the lights I used 2 sets of Phillips 42" LED sticks. These were on sale for $20 a set at Target, so $40 combined.
The Christmas ornaments were the $5 shatter resistant sets from Target, and I used almost 3 boxes.
The bows, ribbon, large silver, large red, and small silver picks are all from Micheal's and cost about $18 for everything.

I recommend working with the large picks outside. Otherwise you will have glitter everywhere!

First I placed the lights where I wanted them and then I filled the pot with the garland.

Next I randomly stuck the picks everywhere and just made sure both pots were even.

Then I filled the pots with the balls.
I used double-sided tape to stick the ribbon to the pots, and tied the bows on with a twist-tie. 

I decorated our banister with garland and bows that I already had. Although looking at it now, I think it might need some spicing up!


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