How to Make a Cookie Jar Air Tight

Cookies with festive decorations look nice displayed in clear glass jars.

Many people would like to store their cookies on the counter in a cookie jar, but find that the cookies can go stale quickly when they do so. The reason the cookies go stale quickly is because many cookie jar lids do not have an airtight seal. If you have a cookie jar that is not airtight, you can fix it easily with some wax paper. Does this Spark an idea?

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Wax paper
Pencil
Scissors

Instructions

- 1
  
  Tear off a piece of wax paper larger than your cookie jar lid and lay it on a flat surface.
- 2
  
  Place the cookie jar lid on top of the wax paper.
- 3
  
  Trace around the circumference of the lid with a pencil.
- 4
  
  Cut the wax paper all the way around the circle, leaving an inch or two of space between the traced circle and where you are cutting. You want the wax paper circle to be larger than your jar's lid so that it hangs over the edges all around.
- 5
  
  Place the wax paper circle on top of your open cookie jar.
- 6
  
  Close the lid over the wax paper, creating an airtight seal.