MoneySaving Halloween tricks-or-treats for you to make at home

• Syrup (two tablespoons) to create a thick, sticky base for the mixture.

• Red food colouring (one tablespoon) for obvious reasons.

• Cocoa powder (½ a teaspoon) to darken the colour, and any budget brand will do – as it happened, I had Green & Black's at home, but this definitely wouldn't be cheapest.

That's all you need! Just mix them together and you should have something resembling sticky, dark red blood. And by all means play around with consistency to create different looks. For 'fresher' blood, add more food colouring and less cocoa powder.

• PVA glue

• Contact lens solution (must contain boric acid)

• Baking powder

• Green food dye

Put a dollop of PVA glue into a bowl. Add a spoonful of baking powder, followed by a drop of food colouring, and then give it a stir.

Add a splash of the solution and then stir some more. You should then have your slime!

• Two bananas

• A handful of strawberries

• 150g white chocolate

• Small chocolate chips

• Chocolate sauce

• Five wooden skewers

Cut the bananas in half and pick out a handful of strawberries. Skewer the four halved bananas at the base where they were cut.

Melt the white chocolate in a microwave-safe dish in the microwave (be careful not to burn yourself when taking it out) and dip the bananas and strawberries into the chocolate. Let them cool off for a bit and place two small chocolate buttons on each banana and strawberry for the eyes. 

You can then use the spare skewer to dip into the chocolate sauce and draw the mouths of the bananas. We decided to use half of a chocolate button to make the mouths of our strawberries as ours were a bit tiny, but feel free to let your imagination run wild!

Once they're ready, place them into the fridge for about 20 minutes and hocus pocus – here's your spooky fruity salad.