Use this huge pumpkin cookie as a colorful Halloween party centerpiece. Then break or cut into pieces and serve for dessert. This Great Pumpkin Cookie recipe makes a 12-inch cookie large enough for 12 servings. It’s yummy and it’s a real treat! Make many for a party cookie decorating competition. Everyone’s a winner when they get to bring their cookies home…if they aren’t devoured first!

Use this basic holiday butter cookie recipe to all your Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, or other holiday cookie baking. For Halloween fun, make The Great Pumpkin Cookie recipe for a Halloween party centerpiece or party activity. This Holiday Butter Cookie recipe can be used to make the edible Thanksgiving cookie mobile found on Nana Finds. The cookies can also be used as Thanksgiving party favors. Use different cookie cutters for holidays throughout the year.

Grandchildren are so wonderful to be with. They bring back happy memories from our parenting days and bring smiles to our grandparenting days. They are what keep us young at heart. Grandchildren give us a chance to be kids again…we get to watch cartoons, play with toys, make sandcastles, visit playgrounds, and visit the land of make believe.
We are lucky to be grandparents in this wonderful, sometimes frustrating, technology age. We can still stay in touch with our grandchildren whether we are around the corner, around the world, or somewhere in …

Here’s an adorable handprint poem and craft for Thanksgiving. Turn your grandchild’s handprint into a turkey. Make a family of turkeys by adding grown-up handprints, too.
Thanksgiving Handprint Poem
What to do:

Print or type the following Thanksgiving poem onto cardstock
Trace hand onto the page and decorate to look like a turkey

Use this homemade Black Cat Fudge recipe to make the witch for the Full-Moon Pumpkin Cheesecake in Nana’s Corner Halloween recipes and other spooky Halloween creatures for your Halloween celebration!
Black Cat Fudge
What you’ll need:

8 ounces semisweet chocolate, coarsely chapped
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/3 cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup shipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
16  (1 pound) confectioners’ sugar (about 4 1/2 cups), sifted
White chocolate chips (about 30) – or white icing

What to do:

1 line 11×7-inch pan with foil, extending foil beyond edges of pan; grease foil.
Melt chocolate and butter in medium saucepan …

Full-Moon Pumpkin Cheesecake
The cheesecake is the eerie background behind a chocolate fudge broomstick flying witch. Other possibilities are a fence with a cat against the Halloween moon or turn the pumpkin cheesecake into a pumpkin with a spooky face. Leave off the witch and serve the Pumpkin Cheesecake for Thanksgiving. Delicious!

The Leaves
 The leaves had a wonderful frolic.
They danced to the wind’s loud song.
They whirled, and they floated, and scampered.
They circled and flew along.