Well, it's the time of year when it seems like when making your shopping list, there is another person to buy a gift for! My daughter this year, has not only her preschool friends and teachers, her swim teacher, gymnastics teacher and her ballet teacher. She also has a secret santa gift to get for one of her friends at ballet class.
So instead of buying a whole lot of gifts this year, we are making most of them. For the kids that is.
I decided to do something fun for the kid's in her preschool class, why not Reindeer Food! You ask why? Well, I remember being a kid and Rudolph being on my mind, wondering if he will make it to my house with Santa that year. So here is what I did!
I had some spice jars from a while ago that I never used, so I put them to work. They were perfect because since they were spice jars, they came with the sprinkle top on them. I filled each jar with oats and glitter about 3/4 full.
I then made tags, I had made prim tags by coating them with a coffee, cinnamon and pumpkin spice mixture baked in the oven to give the tags that old fashioned, grungy look; not to mention your house smells great when baking them :) I cut pieces of scrapbook paper along with the paper of instructions and glued them to the tag. I then used Sparkle Mod Podge and covered each tag to give it that authentic sparkle look.
On the tag read:
"On Christmas Eve, sprinkle this wonderful Reindeer Food on your lawn. The shiny glitter will sparkle in the moonlight, and the smell of oats will guide Rudolph to your home!"
I then made the reindeer candy canes, brown pipe cleaners, red pom poms, googly eyes, ribbon and bells. I had everything except the candy canes I bought. I glued the eyes and nose in place with a glue gun then twisted the pipe cleaners around the head to make antlers. Then tie a ribbon with a bell attached around the neck.
After the Mod Podge was dry on my tags I took ribbon and attached the tag to the jars. I then took a rubber band and attached the Reindeer candy cane to the side of the jar. That was it!
They turned out wonderful and my daughter had a blast helping me. That was the true gratification!
*To use the reindeer food as a present topper, fill bead bags 3"X 4" with oats and glitter instead of jars and attach to your present with tag and reindeer candy cane.
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