Reindeer Food!

Have you heard of Reindeer Food for the night before Christmas?

Children spread out some glitter and oatmeal (preferably on snow) to light the way for Santa’s reindeer on Christmas Eve. It’s a fun tradition for some.

I sell my crafts at craft shows, and reindeer food is always a hit. I haven’t made them in a few years, but while going through my craft fair stash found a dozen glass test tubes, which are perfect for this project. 

The project “ingredients” are:

• glass tubes (you can use plastic) 
• a Cricut for the reindeer 
• a die-cutting machine for the tag
• hole punch
• card stock for the tag and reindeer 
• oatmeal
• chunky red  glitter
• twine
• a white gel ink pen
• embellishments (snowflakes and google eyes)
• 3D adhesive dots
• embossing folder (I used a snowflake pattern)
• twine

First, I gathered my materials. The cardstock that I chose was:

DCS Red Glitter Heavyweight 12x12 Discount Card Stock, which has glitter on one side and white on the back side

DCS Discount Card Stock: Red Pepper Card Stock, which is a matte texture.

DCS Discount Card Stock: Vanilla Bean Brown Discount Card Stock, which has a Canvas textured on one side.

You can do the following steps in any order, but I wanted to work on my tags first. I began with the reindeer die-cut, which I cut on my Cricut machine. I used the Vanilla Bean Brown for the reindeer base and antlers. I punched holes in the red glitter papers for Rudolf’s nose. I thought that was a fun touch. I added google eyes and then used my white gel pen to highlight certain areas of the deer.

Next was the tags — I put red pepper card stock through my Big Shot die-cut machine and then embossed the tags with a snowflake pattern. I adhered the reindeer with 3D glue dots to the tag and added a glitter snowflake in the corner of the tag, next to the reindeer. 

I took out the test tubes and randomly (I don’t measure anything) mixed chunky glitter with oatmeal and poured it into the tubes with my designated glitter funnel. 

I tied the tag with twine on the caps — and the project is ready for the craft shows! Wish me luck!