Homemade Gift- Cookie Jar w/ Recipe

I made these jars as Christmas gifts for close family and friends and they came out really nice.  You just take a mason jar and cookie recipes and fill the jar with all of the dry ingredients needed for the cookie you chose, type up a recipe card and decorate the jar!  It was really fun and the cookies turned out great.   I made Oatmeal Chocolate Chip, Cranberry Hootycreeks and Toffee Blondies. Here is the How-To and some photos!

SUPPLIES:

• Mason Jar with Lid
• Ribbon
• Felt
• Patterned Fabric
• Hot Glue Gun/ Glue
• Scissors
• Card-stock Paper
• Computer with Printer
• All dry cookie ingredients

DIRECTIONS:

1) Take your mason jar and layer each dry ingredient from your cookie recipe carefully.  You want them to be straight across so that you can see it is layered and so it looks nice! I used a spoon to spread and even out the sugar, flour and what not in the jar on the sides before adding the next layer. 

 (I forgot to take an 'in process' layering photo so I found this one on 

the internet to illustrate my point, hope it helps!)

2) Now that you have all of your dry ingredients layered you need to type up a recipe card with the directions on how to make the cookies.   I put all of the ingredients that are in the jar and their measurements listed in a column on one side and then what they needed to add in a second column and then the instructions for mixing and baking underneath.  I typed them up in a fun font and printed them out on decorated paper.  Then I cut them out with scissors that had decorated edges so it looked more fun. 

3) I used a ribbon and wrapped the recipe card against the jar and tied the ribbon tight so that the card was attached to the jar but easily removable by untying the bow. 

4) Then I took the lid of my jar and cut a square piece off felt long enough to cover the side of the metal lid and hang over a bit so it looked nice.  I glued the patterned fabric to the felt and glued the entire thing to the lid.  Then I used the same ribbon used to attach the card to tie around the rim of the lid and over the felt for extra security and decor.  

Here is how they turned out...  

I LOVED THEM! I think it was a nice gift and they were fun to make and they are easy to enjoy.  We kept a jar for our self and we loved it too!

What do you think?