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Magic Reindeer Food Recipe and Printable Treat Bag Topper

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Christmas comes but once a year, but when it comes it brings good cheer.  The holiday season is brilliantly celebrated with holiday galas for adults and pint-size kid parties. Holiday tiding and tradition are sprinkled about every home.  Did you know that a child’s countdown to Christmas starts on Christmas Eve, not Black Friday? 

Upon the eve of Christmas, every child’s wonder and merriment leads to a tuck-in of cherry plum dreams.  Will Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, Blitzen arrive at their home and leave the stockings filled? Leave out milk and cookies for Santa and add this magic reindeer food recipe to your holiday repertoire.

Greet the most anticipation-filled night for children everywhere with this magic reindeer food recipe and a printable treat bag topper. Help guide Santa’s sleigh and reindeer to your home, delivering a new holiday tradition your children will cherish year after year. Lavishly live the beauty and wonder of the holiday season out loud.

Use as Imagined  and Imagine A Magical Night Before Christmas  

The night before Christmas is the happiest night for kids, as tidings of the season bless their sleep and waking time christens their lives with new treats. Happiness and all the trimming happen in a Christmas Eve house only if Santa can magically appear and fill those stockings.

Since the reason for the season is about to happen, make it easier for yourself by creating Magical Reindeer Food that the children spread outdoors. The recipe includes a ‘glistening’ ingredients to help reindeer find their way from the twinkle on the ground. Your hustle and bustle of this most festive season help you ‘zip’ the delivery system of stockings filled with care with ease.

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Your secret to success in magic reindeer food is all in the creative “use as imagined” filled ZIPLOC® Brand Snack Bags.  Each child receives a  ZIPLOC® Brand Snack Bag filled with the magical feed and they get to scatter it all over outside.

Once the kids scatter the magic reindeer food they have guaranteed the way for Santa and his reindeers to find your home. The path of glistening is the path to getting the kids to sleep and believe.  Who knows you might even spread the magic fast enough to catch a good night’s sleep yourself.

Magic Reindeer Food Recipe and Printable Treat Bag Topper

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2 C Oats

1/2 C Glitter

1 Mixing Bowl 

1 Scoop 

Snack Bag 240 CT or Holiday Print Quart Size

Printable Treat Bag Toppers (for atop zipper bags) -print below

Printable Magic Reindeer Food Recipe Cards (insert in Snack Bags ) -print below 

TOPPERS & CARD INSERTS 

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Choose what Magic Reindeer Poem you are using from below or use both. 

Print and cut for use in and on Snack Bags or Holiday Print Quart size. 

If you have used the printable for the Magic Reindeer Poem (business card size- *Alternate printable below) place it inside the bag. 

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or in the  Snack Bag this is truly all preference. 

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The ‘Easy Open Tabs’ are the gift you need to make this project perfect.

The ‘easy open tabs’ are perfect for stapling the Topper to one side only, and easily allowing access to the bag without destroying topper! 

Find these great tabs on both the Snack Bag

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and the Holiday Print Quart sizes are great too, so festive. 

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Fasten the topper to the ‘easy open tab’ and then fill with the mixture below. 

Directions For Magic Reindeer Food 

Mix oatmeal and glitter in a bowl, 

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stir well. 

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Place prepared  Snack Bag  in your workspace

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Use a 1/4 scoop of mix per Snack Bag repeating until you have filled 8 bags. The mixture makes 8 bags. 

Close the Snack Bag shut. 

Place in holiday basket and hand out to each child for Christmas Eve Night. 

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FREE PRINTABLE to place atop your Bag 

Magic Reindeer Poem 

Use cardstock paper to make a firm printable. 

Staple ONLY to ‘easy open tab’ of  Snack Bag or Holiday Quart Size Bag so that the bags open without removing the tag. 

Click the link below here to print- Make sure you uncheck the box that reads “fit to page”

Reindeer_printable_blue (1)_topper

FREE ALTERNATE PRINTABLE – Business Card Size 

Magic Reindeer Poem

You can place these in the bag instead of topping the bag, another great option. Of course, you could always do both!

Click the link below here to print- Make sure you uncheck the box that reads “fit to page”

Reindeer_printable_sheet_in_bag

LAVISHLY LIVE THE HOLIDAYS WITH SPARKLE 

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  5. Thanks for the printables. I think I will make some of these magic reindeer dust for my grandchildren to sprinkle on the lawn. I am pretty sure they will try and stay awake waiting for Santa’s reindeer to come.

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  12. So darling! I love this special season, and all of the moments we can spend together as a family. Making reindeer food is going to be a great addition.

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  18. My kids are a little past the waiting for Santa stage but this is so much fun for the little ones to set out for the reindeer. I will show this to all my family with the younger kids who wait for Santa and the reindeer.

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  20. Once again I’m so sad we don’ have ZIPLOC here. This is a great idea! I’m going to try it with my brother and sisters 😀

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  27. This is such a great idea and practical too. Just in time for the holiday season and even kids would love to do it. Thank you for the coupons. This adds to the many uses of the Ziplock. I will check this out.

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  28. This is such a cute idea, Easter we planted jelly beans and the grew into lollipops. We are always looking for new traditions to pass along and I can see this one becoming a favorite for the household.

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  32. This such timely and awesome ideas. I love the idea of ZipLoc and printable, so cute. My kids would love this.

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  35. Wow this sounds nice!! I have decided that I will make this and give all my neighbourhood children as they will love this ?
    Thanks for sharing this lovely idea?

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  37. What a way to build and encourage the Christmas spirit. I don’t have kids yet but this I will try when the time comes.

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  38. This is awesome! It is timely for the holiday season and even kids can easily do this. This adds to the many uses of the Ziplock. This can be a good treat, giveaways or even a small business this Christmas. It’s a wonderful idea. Thank you!

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  41. Thanks for this lovely article! As I was reading the whole thing, it brought a smile to my face. Once I get home, I’ll this with my family!

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  42. ” delivering a new holiday tradition your children will cherish year after year” What I think that, if you can tell something special to your kids, they might more understandable different cultural.

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  43. This is practical and cute! PLACE IN HOLIDAY BASKET AND HAND OUT TO EACH CHILD FOR CHRISTMAS EVE NIGHT – surely the children will be thrilled.

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  44. Wow Christmas is already here soon, and I’m here thinking it’s still mid year. Going to apply for 2 weeks leave this time, gonna go full yolo!

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  45. I don’t celebrate Thanksgiving or Christmas, but I really do wish I did after seeing posts such as this. This is something that I would love to try out one day, when I am celebrating it too.

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  47. It’s kinda weird to mix oats and glitter. It’s the thought that counts though. I liked the reindeer poem though. Maybe I’d do something similar but nothing using edibles. 🙂

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  48. Yummy. Ooh i love christmas, thanks a lot for the recipes, at least this time round i have something different to prepare and wow my family with.

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  49. I can imagine the smiles on the kids faces once they receive the Ziploc brand bags, they will be so happy. Personally I would love to see the glowing of the magic Reindeer dust under the moonlight.

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  50. Amazing idea I sure would love to try this out. The problem is I can’t access the products as Walmart is not anywhere close to where I leave.

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  51. Will try out this stuff this coming Christmas, it’s so near. Looks amazing for the kids and am sure they will love it.

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  53. This is quite interesting DIY to do this season. I agree on you, Ziploc® Brand products are amazing! Ziploc® Brand bags cannot be only used as candy crusher or as a cookie dough savior; I also used it in organizing stuff in the kitchen. Thanks for the digital coupon and also for the templates and printables! Cheers!

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  54. I love the idea of using ziplocs and the print design is so alluring especially for kids way to go for pushing the idea of magin in christmas two thumbs up for this one

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  55. this is a very cost effective idea that will make everyones’ imagination flourish whilst enjoying the beauty of christmas you can even make it in bulk so you can give to everyone you love.. must do and share

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  56. I love no-bake recipes for I don’t have an oven nor I’m a good cook/baker. They are all natural and healthy plus, there’s a thought of heart 🙂 Like what they say, it’s the thought that counts

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  57. Great recipe for Thanksgiving. It looks so tasty and sparkling, glittering. This is a good gift idea for my relatives. I want to try it.

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  58. Wow! This is unique. Since I’m not really from the US all we really get excited about before was Santa and the Santa Socks. I think this artistic craft of using oats and glitters for raindear food will pick up our child’s Christmas mood even more.

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  59. I couldn’t help but notice that you left Rudolph from the list of reindeers! This is a fun project and I love the concept. However, I feel a bit sad that the oatmeal will just be scattered around someone’s lawn/front porch (?)…

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  60. This will definitely make kids go crazy and excited! Although I doubt that the kids will get a goodnight sleep after they sprinkle the Magic Reindeer Dust. They will surely wait for Santa!

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