My Thumbprint Cookies

Ingredients: 1/2 cup margarine; 2 cups flour; 1 teaspoon salt; 1/3 cup water; fruit preserves or fresh fruit

Mix all ingredients together with the children (I usually divide the ingredients up so that each child can add at least one items or a portion of an item).

Form a stiff dough.

Separate the dough into small amounts, one for each child.

They roll it into a ball (of course, after manipulating and checking it out for a while!) and then use their thumb to make an indent on the top.

Place on cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F. for 8-10 minutes. (NOTE: I also make a paper chart of which cookie belongs to which child!).

Each child adds a 1/2 teaspoon of fruit preserves or some fresh fruit in the thumb indent.