Reindeer Food

On Saturday, we invited our little friends, Anna and Isabella, over to help us make reindeer food.  This is something that I did with Samantha last year (Sophia was too young to partake in the activity), and Sam really enjoyed it.  I knew for sure that she would REALLY like it this year. 

I put together six jars of various things that the girls could choose to fill their bags with.  We had oatmeal, toasted bread crumbs, potato chips, raisins and then two very magical things: flying powder (aka flour) and glitter.  These bags of "reindeer food" were to be sprinkled on the front lawn on Christmas Eve so that the reindeer would have their own little snack while Santa was busy delivering presents inside the house.  The glitter was used to help guide the reindeer to us on Christmas Eve.

We let the "little girls" -- Sophia and Isabella -- go first.

They had more fun doing this than I even imagined.

And then we let the "bigger girls" have their turn.

It was "all smiles" from them as I explained what each of the special things were for inside the jars.

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On Christmas Eve, we put our girls in their boots and coats and let them go outside to sprinkle their reindeer food before bedtime.  The girls had a blast shuffling through the snow, leaving a trail of crumbs and glitter for each of Santa's reindeer.

It was like Sophia completely understood what to do ...

Scattering the food (and glitter) all over:

It was definitely a chilly night!