Wildlife Friendly Reindeer Food
Simple wildlife & bird friendly reindeer food recipe with free printable labels and cute reindeer bag design. Kids will love making food for Santa's reindeer!
Servings: 8 bags
Equipment
- clear disposable piping bags or cone shaped cellophane bags
- long brown pipe cleaners
- googly eyes
- glue stick
- single hole punch
- String
- Labels (find free printable labels at www.eatsamazing.co.uk)
Ingredients
- 2 cups oats
- 1 cup mixed seeds or wild birdseed
- ⅔ cup dried cranberries
- ⅓ cup chopped dried apricots
- 1 pinch of magic!
Instructions
- Pour the oats, seeds, ½ of the cranberries and all of the apricots into a large bowl. Get the kids to add a pinch of magic from a bowl or the air for extra fun!
- Give everything a good stir until it is completely combined.
- Divide the remaining cranberries between the bags.
- Spoon the reindeer food mixture into the bags on top of the cranberries.
- Wrap a pipe cleaner around each bag to tie it closed, then wrap the two loose ends around your finger to curl into antlers.
- Glue two googly eyes to each bag.
- Print off as many labels as you need, then cut down to size and punch a hole in each one.
- Tie a label onto each reindeer with string.
- Store in a cool dry place until Christmas Eve, when you can sprinkle the reindeer food outside your house to attract Santa's reindeer!