A fun young women activity and treat all in one! Scripture cookies in a jar. Search scripture verses to find the ingredients. Pack into a jar and send home with each girl to make for her family! Would make a fun family home activity as well. This post contains affiliate links.
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I work with the 12 and 13 year old teenage girls in our church’s youth group. The girls are so sweet and adorable at that age! We meet on Tuesday nights for youth group activities. I needed to come up with an activity the week that we were moving out of our house. I decided to use up some pantry ingredients at the same time and voila! Scripture Cookies in a Jar. A spiritual activity and practical one all in one. I had everything I needed already!
Scripture Cookies In a Jar Worksheet
I made a printable worksheet that you can use too. Just click here to print! Search the scripture references for the key ingredients. ANSWERS: flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, raisins, oats, white sugar and brown sugar, butter, egg.
I had a bunch of plastic pint-sized jars leftover from a project so I customized my recipe to fit inside of them. These plastic jars are great to keep on hand for projects with kids. They don’t break! Everything fits inside, with very little room to spare. If you use a Mason pint-sized jar, leave the raisins or chocolate chips out and place in a baggie. Both the plastic and mason jar are pint-size, but for some reason, the glass jars hold a little less. You can also use a larger jar.
Layering Ingredients for Scripture Cookie Jars
Watch our video to see how we perfectly layered everything to fit in the jar. Here is the order that works best:
Start with flour then add baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Add chocolate chips and oats. Pack down tightly. Finally, add the sugars. Pack down again.
Note: the scripture reference for oats comes from the Doctrine & Covenants. A book of scripture used by the LDS faith. If you are not of the LDS faith, you can use a scripture verse that refers to any sort of grain and have the kids use that for oats instead.
I brought both raisins and chocolate chips and let the girls decide which ones they wanted to use. (Mostly because I don’t like raisins in cookies and assume others might feel the same way!)
Download your printable cookies in a jar worksheet here!
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What a neat idea! 🙂
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This is such a cute idea! 😀 I would love to make these for my family 🙂
-Jenna <3
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I’ve gone my whole life without eating cookies in a jar. Not cool! And not another day, lol. A must try. Mmm! Thanks for this recipe!
I LOVE this idea! I pinned it and shared it to my Minivan Ministries Facebook page. Thanks for sharing! I found you through the “A Little Bird Told Me” link up!
Congratulations!
Your recipe was featured on Full Plate Thursday Top Ten. Your recipe has been pinned to our Feature’s and thanks so much for sharing with us!
Miz Helen
thanks so much!
On your post you said to use 1 tsp of vanilla but on the paper it says 1/2 teaspoon. Which is the correct one? Thank you for this awesome idea! We are doing it tonight for mutual!
1/2 tsp. THANK YOU for letting me know! Changing it right now 🙂
What size jars did you use?
Hi Lindsay! We used pint-sized plastic containers (jars) from Oriental Trading.
Such a great idea! I can’t wait to try it! I have a question what did you use to replace calamus?
I don’t remember calamus being in the scriptures. Which one? These are the ingredients used in the jar. Hope that helps! flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, raisins, oats, white sugar and brown sugar, butter, egg.
If a someone is allergic to oats, have you found a good substitute for that?
Maybe rice crispies cereal.
I love this idea! I wanted to do this quart sized jars. Do you know the measurements that would fit for that? I was thinking of just doubling it…
Doubling it should work! 🙂
Thank you I’m gonna have my HIVE make these this week!
I would like to make these with my Miamaids, but would like to make sure I have the right sized jar. Do you by chance know how many oz there are in the bottles you used. I tried looking it up on Oriental trading, but could not find the bottles you used.
Hi Mikell! I used these pint sized plastic jars from Oriental Trading. I think there are 16 oz. to them. https://www.orientaltrading.com/pint-mason-jars-a2-13706298.fltr?keyword=jars
I found some plastic ones on Amazon.
Oh no! I just saw this and it’s too late for you now, but I did fix the type-o! This post is 2 years old and has been used dozens of times and nobody else caught it. Thank you for letting me know! I am so sorry!
Should the butter be softened or melted?
Softened.
I can’t wait to do this with my beehives tonight! Do you use quick oats or regular? TIA!
Regular, but quick would work as well!
Did this for a Young Women activity and had to leave out much of the oats because all the ingredients did not fit in a pint size jar.
I’m sorry they didn’t fit perfectly. We used plastic pint jars and I would assume a pint is a pint, but that is just so odd! We also packed down the ingredients as we went, especially the oats. I hope the cookies turned out delicious anyway for the girls anyway!
Hi there! Is there a video that goes along with this that I’m missing? I looked a few times and wasn’t able to see a link to a video. I know this is an old post, so I’m not sure you’ll even see this comment.
Hi Melissa! There is a video attached to the post. I’m not sure why it isn’t showing up for you. So strange because I can see it! Maybe an ad blocker is on? I’ll try to email it to you.
Tried this activity last night with my YW and they loved the idea. However I tried baking the cookies today and they fell flat! Not sure what happened. 😩
Hi Anette! I’m not sure what could have happened either. I had several extra jars and filled them when I made them with my YW and baked them at home. They were totally fine. I’m sorry I’m not more help to you!
Tip: whenever creaming egg and butter, they should be at room temperature – 68-72 degeees. About 45-60 min. Or to take the chill off of butter, place in a bowl of warm, not hot, water before cracking. About 5-10 min.
Tip: for thick cookies that don’t spread much, put the scooped cookies in the freezer for 10-15 min before baking. Increase baking time by 1-2 min.
– From Baker Bettie Baking Book
I can’t find the video that goes along with the this post. Could you please email me the link for the video also? Thank you for the wonderful ideas on your blog!
Scripture Cookies In a Jar (Video)
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A fun young women activity and treat all in one! Scripture cookies in a jar. Search scripture verses to find the ingredients. Pack into a jar and send home with each girl to make for her family! Would make a fun family home activity as well. This post contains affiliate links.
Looking for another fun activity to make with young women? Check out our acrylic necklaces and pocket fans!
Hi Bonnie! Do you have a pop up blocker on your computer perhaps? The video plays right underneath the first image. If it still doesn’t play let me know and I’ll try to figure out a way to send it to you. It’s big file, but maybe I can try google drive or something.
Not sure about the sugar, the quiz says 1/4 c white &1/2 c brown. The answers say 1 1/2 c suger which one is correct? Thank you, Nancy
Hi! Where does it say 1 1/2 cups of sugar? I’m looking, but don’t see that anywhere. 1/4 cup white and 1/2 cup brown is the measurement.