Noah’s Ark Cookies for Vacation Bible School
Make decorated Noah’s Ark cookies for Vacation Bible School. Get out your animal cookie cutters and mix a batch of this sugar cookie recipe.
Straight black hair, blond curls, dreadlocks, cute pony tails, buzz cuts.
Frilly dresses, sequined t-shirts, blue jeans, sundresses, capris.
Tennis shoes, flip flops, white sandals, crocs, or dress shoes.
Sixty assorted enthused children mill around the church doors waiting for the bell.
A few harried adults corral the angst and ardor into classes and lines and end up with a semblance of order.
Summer Vacation Bible School is about to begin!
Then the singing starts,
I love to go to Bible School, I love to sing the songs.
And when I see a vacant chair, I know there’s something wrong.
Tell it on the highways, tell it on the byways,
Tell them that He’s their friend.
And when the door is open, they’re welcome to come in.
Sing just a little bit, talk just a little bit,
Throw in a smile or two,
And go heavy on the “how do you do?”
For the Lord is counting on you!
And the wiggling, jiggling lines march into chairs for a lively song session before the Bible School leader leads a prayer. Then the little children of our world march behind their teacher to their classes and lessons.
Half way through this early evening session of Bible Story classes, it’s time for break.
At our Bible School the Church ladies take turns baking cookies for the play breaks.
This year, I’ll invite my g’littles over to help me frost and fancy these Noah’s Ark Animal Cookies when it’s our turn to take cookies.
Noah’s Ark Animal Cookies Supplies
Here’s a list of the supplies you’ll need to bake and decorate the cookies:
- Sugar Cookie Recipe below.
- Animal cookie cutters.
- Cookie sheets, rolling pin with rings, cookie lifter, parchment paper.
- Frosting tips, piping bags and couplers, icing spatula set.
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Here’s the recipe:
Noah’s Ark Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter soft
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 5 cups flour
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup milk
Instructions
- Cream sugar, eggs, butter and vanilla.
- Sift dry ingredients together.
- Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk.
- Roll dough on lightly floured surface and cut with cookie cutters.
- Bake at 375° for 8 minutes.
- Let cookies cool. Frost and decorate.
We use slightly thinned butter cream frosting for cut-out cookies. A shortcut option is purchased frosting.
You’ll also need food coloring, such as brown, yellow, gold, blue, red and/or orange. In other words, zoo animal colors.
The simplest way to frost the cookies is to put the frosting in a frosting bag. Pipe frosting around the edges, then fill in and smooth with a knife. The detail colored frostings should be thin enough to pipe onto the cookies, also.
You can be as detailed as you wish, but with 5 dozen cookies, I’ll be looking for the simplest way to the best result.
Enjoy baking and decorating Noah’s Ark Animal Cookies!
Make a matching carry box for your Noah’s Ark Cookies with our pattern that fits around the edges of a cake box.
