An Annual Tradition -- Reindeer Food

It has become one of our annual Christmas traditions to put together some "reindeer food" that can be scattered on the lawn for the deer on Christmas Eve.  We had plans to do this at our house with friends this year, but the friends were sick and we had to cancel the play date.  The girls were disappointed of course, but I promised that we would still make it.

So one night, fresh out of the tub, we set to work.

We filled some bags with marshmallows, oatmeal, crushed potato chips, butterscotch chips, cocoa ... and of course, glitter!  That way, moon would shine on the glitter and the reindeer would know to stop at our house ...

There is no exact recipe, of course.  A little of this, and a little of that.  Maybe a lot of something else.  It's completely up to you.

Hard at work.

And then I caught this -- Jack was sampling his reindeer food!  Just look at those cheeks stuffed with marshmallows!

Momma assisted with the glitter.

So exciting!

Then we labeled each of the bags so that we would know whose was whose on Christmas Eve.

All ready to go.  And we even filled a special ornament that Sophia received from Grammy this year.  It's symbolic of this special tradition that we have because you place reindeer food in the "belly" of the reindeer ornament and then hang it on the tree every year.  Adorable.