April Fools’ Pranks

April Fools’ Pranks

1. Switcheroo: If your little ones are sound sleepers, wait until they are fast asleep to pull the old switcheroo! Switch them to different beds while they are sleeping. Imagine their surprise when they wake up in their brother's or sister's bed on April Fools Day!

2. Bug Off - Purchase some realistic insects prior to April 1st and place the creepy crawlers in ice cubes, socks, shoes, food, etc.

3. Out of Gas: A few blocks from home, make your car lurch a little and announce that you're out of gas. The children will moan and groan a little. Tell the kids they will have to walk to get gas as you watch the car, then drive by yelling "April Fools!” Make sure there is no one around and it's a lightly traveled road.

4. Oreo Cookies:  If you know someone who loves Oreo cookies, scrape out the white creamy filling and replace with white toothpaste.

5. In a Stitch - Grab a few pair of hubby’s or the kids’ undies and sew them together. Next time they go to grab a clean pair, they’ll get more than they bargained for!

6. Temporary Tattoo:  Get the ugliest most disgusting temporary tattoo and wear it proudly to work.

7. Crank it - Turn up the volume as high as it can go on someone’s computer or radio before they turn it on.

8. Stick It - Attach magnets to a large cup, place the cup on the hood or roof of the car and take off.

9. Balloons:  Fill someone’s car with balloons.

10. Fan: Put some powder on top of the ceiling fan blades and wait for someone to turn it on!

11. Translation Please - Change a family member’s cell phone language from English to another language. Just make sure you are able to change it back to the proper setting!

12. Year Round School: Type and mail a letter to yourself that says the vote went through and school is now going to be held all year long - no more summer vacation. Your kids will be mortified. Then tell them after dinner it was just an April Fool’s Day joke.

13. Plastic Wrap:  Put a sheet or two of plastic-wrap over the toilet seat.

14. Slippery Handles:  Put some vaseline on a few door handles.

15. Sticky Mouse - Use double-sided tape under someone’s computer mouse or on the telephone receiver

16. Cake:  Make a sponge cake for that special someone by frosting honest-to-goodness real sponges in a cake pan! Just don’t bake it!

17. Hard-Boiled Eggs:  Just in time for Easter, hard-boil all the eggs in the refrigerator and place them back into the carton.

18. Salt/Sugar Switcheroo:  Switch the sugar and/or creamer for salt. Just don’t forget to switch it back!

19. Ketchup/Mustard Switcheroo:  If you have non-see-through bottles for ketchup and one for mustard, pour mustard in the ketchup bottle and ketchup in the mustard bottle. Salt/Pepper Switcheroo:  If you have salt and pepper shakers, switch the salt for pepper and vice versa.

20. Switcheroo Shoes - Take a good hard look at the family’s shoes. If a loved one happens to have shoes that look similar in style but are different colors, switch them. For instance, if they have a pair of black shoes and a pair of blue shoes that are similar in style, take the left blue shoe and replace it with the left black shoe. Be sure to hide the matching shoes. They’ll go to work or school with 2 shoes that don’t match.

21. Sour Milk - Before you go to bed, add some green or blue food coloring to your carton of milk. The kids will get quite the surprise when they pour their glass of milk in the morning

22. Unexpected Dandruff: Sprinkle some salt in your hair, then start complaining that your head is itching like crazy. When someone looks at your head, they'll see the worst case of dandruff they've ever seen.

23. April Showers: If you have a sink with a sprayer, put a rubber band around the handle when nobody's looking. This automatically keeps the nozzle in spray-mode. Make sure the nozzle is pointing up and outward. The next person to use the sink will get a splash! I actually tried this on my older son last year. It worked like a charm and provided a bunch of belly laughs.

24. Buggy Toothpaste: Place a raisin in the end of the toothpaste tube. When someone squeezes out the paste, they'll get what looks like a bug along with their minty tarter control glob.

25. Spare Change: This April Fool's practical joke is old, but it still works. Superglue some coins to the sidewalk or any spot that has a lot of people walking around. Make sure it's an appropriate place, then watch people get frustrated when they can't pick up the coins.

26. What's That in Your Apple?: For a fruity April Fool’s practical joke, get a few gummy worms and carefully poke them into fresh fruit, particularly apples. Give your kids a wormy apple for lunch and leave a few apples on the table for friends and family members to snack on.

27. One Sick Joke: Fill a hot water bottle with pea soup. Keep the bottle hidden under your shirt and make a loud noise to attract attention. Bend over the table and squeeze the bottle, as your sludge spews out just like you've thrown up.

28. Look What I Can Do! Ask your victim to put a quarter on a piece of paper and, without removing their finger, trace the coin with a pencil. Repeat the "test" with a few fingers. After that's done, get the victim to pick up the quarter and roll it along the bridge of their nose. Then quietly snicker behind their back as they walk around with a black line along their nose. Don't use a permanent marker because that's just not cool. .