Sharing Time - Faith Cookies

This hands on lesson teaches how faith works.

Preparation: Make a cardboard box oven, a chef's hat (a strip of white paper with a white plastic grocery sack taped inside, so it puffs out the top) and a bunch of ingredients to make cookies. Make a separate set of cookies ahead of time, hide them so the children don't see them.

Directions: Each cookie ingredient represents an ingredient to faith. When a child thinks of an ingredient for faith (such as desire for faith, asking questions, praying, searching the scriptures, etc.) he/she gets to wear the chef's hat and add an ingredient. Then have everyone "test their faith" by putting the cookie dough in the cardboard box oven. A few minutes later, pull out the pre-baked cookies and call them "faith cookies", because they were the product of all of the ingredients to faith.

Optional Clipart:

• Faith (Scroll down)
• "Faith Without Works Doesn't Work" New Era Poster from July 1991

Note: You can use any topic with this idea. Kids love being involved and being hands-on, and definitely love cookies!

Submitted by: Alissa Bright

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