First up, get some white paint, cover your entire pumpkin in it and then get your dainty paintbrush to hand and make a spider crawl across it – or simply write ‘trick or treat’. Or why not ...

a paintbrush and twine or straw. Create the base of the pumpkin shape by blowing up balloons of different sizes. You can adjust the size of each balloon as you wish. Cover the balloons with glue ...