Wanna raise money for Christian Aid? We've got hundreds 'n thousands of ideas (well, almost)!

A cake sale is an easy and tasty way to raise money. Buy fair-trade ingredients where possible. You could have a competition to see whose class's cakes raise the most money.

Add an international flavour to your cake sale by making flags for all the different countries you can find on Global Gang. Put the flags on cocktail sticks and stick them in each cake.

The Blue Peter presenters made a great Doctor Who Dalek cake out of swiss rolls, liquorice sticks and lots of chocolate icing! Why not try and make a cake that looks like R42 the robot from Global Gang?

This is a classic. A nice, heavy cake like a fruit cake works best. Ask classmates to each donate a little money to enter the competition. The person who guesses closest gets to take the cake home!

Hold a class cake-decorating contest. Get some fairy cakes, hundreds and thousands, silver balls, cherries, squeezy icing, chocolate. Maybe you could decorate them to resemble your teachers and sell the cakes in the staff room!

Set up a stall at school where pupils can send cakes to each other with special messages. At lunchtime for a small donation pupils can write a nice note (on a cup cake-shaped piece of paper) putting the name, class and year of the person it’s for at the top. You could deliver the messages with a small cake, gingerbread man or flapjack during registration.

Dress up as a cake – try simple things like tying a ribbon round your middle, using face paint to put candles on your face, making necklaces of sweets, wearing all brown, maybe lace and roses if you’re going as a wedding cake or Christmas decorations if you’re a Christmas cake. Ask everyone to bring in a pound, which teachers can collect. And of course, use it as an excuse to eat cakes. Maybe make some and bring them in to share with your class.

Have a sleepover for Halloween and ask your friends to bring cakes. You could surprise (and maybe scare) everyone by dressing as a gingerbread man. Make a collecting tin: decorate a cardboard box by tying ribbon around the middle and gluing on sweets or birthday candles. Make a hole or slit in the top and ask everyone to give what they can. Ask your friends’ folks too when they come to pick them up.