1/2 C. butter or margarine, softened
1/2 C. powdered sugar
1/2 t. vanilla
1 1/4 C. flour
1/4 t. salt
Mix vanilla and butter in a large mixing bowl. Sift in powdered sugar, and cream with the butter. Sift flour and salt, half at a time, into the butter/sugar mixture. (For the last half, let the kids used washed hands to mix together!) Put a plate or cling wrap over the bowl and refrigerate for one hour. (Let the kids use that time to help you wash the dishes!)
Preheat oven to 375. Take dough out of fridge. Get an ungreased cookie sheet. Shape dough into animals or shapes or flowers, whatever the kids want. Just make all about the same thickness, even if they aren't all the same size. Cook for 8 minutes, until lightly browned around edges but not in the middle. Lift off cookie sheet and onto wire rack to cool.
This is definitely a kids recipe (or at least, one to let them help with). For example, to make an elephant cookie: break off a handful of cold dough. Hold it in your fist for a second to get it warm and soft. Then plop it on the cookie sheet. Press it flat with the palm of your hand. Now use your fingers to shape an elephant. Push and pinch and poke the dough into an elephant shape. Make a trunk, four legs, and a tail.
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