{"id":485,"date":"2023-12-22T23:15:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T23:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:34:41","slug":"advent-day-22-make-reindeer-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/advent-day-22-make-reindeer-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 22 &#8211; Make Reindeer Food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My son loves Blippi, so when I saw a little elf Blippi costume for sale at a second-hand toy shop (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wonderandkind.ca\">Wonder + Kind<\/a>), I had to get it.  The elf dressed as Blippi made his own mini indoor play gym to enjoy.  My son thought it was hilarious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9593-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"elf on the shelf Blippi\" class=\"wp-image-488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9593-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9593-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9593-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9593-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9593-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Day 22&#8217;s activity is to make some reindeer food.  In keeping with the reindeer theme, 2 Schleich reindeer (special editions 2022 and 2023) were gifts in the Maileg Santa Advent Calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve never made reindeer food before, but I always thought it looked like a cute, sensory idea for the kids.  I didn&#8217;t buy anything special.  I knew I had rolled oats in the cupboard and I just scrounged around for anything else Christmas-y in the baking cupboard.  I found some green sugar sprinkles and some old candy canes that I crushed up.  Hopefully none of the ingredients are too offensive to our wildlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9612-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"reindeer food ingredients\" class=\"wp-image-489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9612-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9612-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9612-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9612-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9612-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I gave the kids small spoons to scoop the ingredients into their bowls.  It&#8217;s a Friday afternoon after a very busy week and I wasn&#8217;t feeling overly enthusiastic about doing an activity, but I was pleasantly surprised.  The whole activity took 5 minutes, max.  It was easy, fairly mess free and the kids enjoyed it.  I stored the reindeer food in ziplock bags until the kids can sprinkle it outside on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9621-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Reindeer food mix\" class=\"wp-image-490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9621-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9621-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9621-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9621-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9621-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son loves Blippi, so when I saw a little elf Blippi costume for sale at a second-hand toy shop (Wonder + Kind), I had to get it. The elf dressed as Blippi made his own mini indoor play gym to enjoy. My son thought it was hilarious. Day 22&#8217;s activity is to make some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/advent-day-22-make-reindeer-food\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Day 22 &#8211; Make Reindeer Food&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,117],"tags":[18,6,56,55],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-sensory-play","tag-activityadvent","tag-kidsadvent","tag-makereindeerfood","tag-reindeerfood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}