Making Butter

My kids have been going to a class at the library twice a week all summer. They made butter there for Pioneer Day and they also brought home the recipe to make it. They really wanted to make it again. So I bought heavy cream and worried that once we got started I would be the one doing all the work. They only lasted about one minute for the first step which was shaking the cream in a bottles for fifteen minutes. So I shook the bottles for the rest of the time. Then they pleasantly surprised me and finished making it from there by themselves. It was tasty butter but I'm glad I'm not a pioneer. It would be hard to find time to make butter every time we need it.