Best April Fool’s Day Prank – EVER
Here is YOUR chance to tell everyone about your best ever prank! It is usually enough just to see your victim’s reaction – but just as fun to brag about it after!
I will start…
We are not HUGE pranksters at our house. I like to pull some tricks on the kids, but I hadn’t really gotten my husband involved, until a couple years ago. There is an area off the side of the road by my house where everyone parks their car they are trying to sell. I made and printed a couple signs from my computer that said FOR SALE and had all the important information an interested buyer would want to know, most importantly the number to call was my husband’s work number. I thought it would be funny if he received all these calls about his vehicle for sale not knowing anything about it. I hung the signs in our family minivan and had my friend follow me to this “parking lot” where I left the van, giggling to myself thinking how hilarious I was. Then I waited. I was so excited when his work number showed up on the caller ID – I picked up (already laughing to myself) waiting for the – VERY FUNNY Missy. Instead, he told me a cop had called him letting him know our vehicle was going to be towed if not moved immediately. I laughed even harder thinking, YEA he is getting into this whole April Fool’s Day thing – trying to get back at me for my prank. It took him about 5 minutes before he finally convinced me that a cop really did call and it wasn’t a joke. The cop told him if I came to move the vehicle before he was done calling on all the other cars, he wouldn’t have it towed. Still a bit skeptical, I hurried and called my friend and asked her to race me back to the “parking lot” to retrieve my car. Sure enough the cop was there and he didn’t think my little “joke” was very funny.
Hopefully my next prank won’t backfire – but hey, I pranked myself – BEAT THAT!
Shelley
Shelley is not a huge fan of pranks because she says they always seem too mean. I know there are fun non-mean pranks out there – so if you have some, be sure to comment on them for Shelley’s sake. She has yet to pull off her own prank (she is TERRIBLE at poker faces and keeping secrets – two important prank qualities). She did have a good story about a prank played on her husband. It was an Easter tradition for her husband’s family to host an adult Easter egg hunt where his parents would put a good amount of money in the eggs instead of candy. The adults would RACE around trying to get as many eggs as possible. Are you picturing this? One year, his dad put change in all the eggs and handed big bills to all the sibblings except Shelley’s husband with the instructions to pull out the big bills when the hunt was over and pretend they came from their eggs. So the hunt is over everyone is pulling out these big bills from their eggs and Shelley’s husband just keeps getting eggs with change in them. He just kept saying, “What are the chances?” another change filled egg opened, “No, seriously what are the chances?” They all got a good laugh at his reaction to thinking he was the most unlucky egg finder ever!
Alison
Alison is the QUEEN of pranks – and yes, they usually involve vinyl. She has pulled her fair share on me…but I digress – her favorite one (and she has used this more than once) is putting vinyl lettering in the rival sports team that any certain individual hates and plastering it all over their car on game day. This really starts some fires, but it makes for some good laughs as you can imagine.
So what is YOUR all time best prank?
We all want to giggle right along with you – and we need your ideas for today – or maybe for next year!
Amy S says
My greatest prank ever–Sorry it wasn’t on April Fool’s Day–I should have saved it but, I didn’t. My story–
I attended a baptist college in which my roommate and I were both Missionary kids (her being from argentina and myself from Brasil). She had played a prank on me by putting kool-aid into my hair spritz (am I dating myself here? spritz?) anyways this caused my hair to become seriously sticky, which almost made me late for class–she though it hilarous. I told her that I would get even—I did–I waited a good 2 1/2 months planning and scheming-
My roommate was a sound sleeper–so after she went to sleep I took an old canister vaccum and attached a “clapper” to it and then stuck it under her bed. I went and unscrewed all the light bulbs in the room and duct taped the wall switch down. It was pitch black in our room–I then proceeded to go out in the hallway (sticking pennies into the door jam as I was shutting the door–this allows for the door to be opened from the outside but not the inside) then…I….clapped! The vaccum cleaner started up (under her bed where moments before she had been sound asleep—she couldn’t turn on any lighs and couldn’t get the door open!!! LOL!!! She and the other girls in the dorm never played a prank on me again.
brenbren says
Not really big on pranks either. One year we told my mother in law I was pregnant and she flipped out. She told us it was too soon, what were we thinking, how could we be so irresponsible…..etc. APRIL FOOLS. “Oh, I am so relieved.” 2 weeks later I found out I was pregnant for real. We didn’t tell here until I was 4 months along.
Alexis says
Wow, she sounds like a peach! And I don’t blame you for keeping it to yourself for four months. The first time I got pregnant – a surprise three months after our wedding – we told our families right away, and my husband’s parents spent three hours berating me, telling me how awful I was. 12 weeks later I lost the baby, so we didn’t tell them about pregnancy #2 until I was showing. Actually, they asked.
heidi @ wonder woman wannabe says
Last year I fooled my husband into thinking I was pregnant (our 2nd child, who was a VERY colicy infant was about to turn One and we were just feeling like we were getting our groove back)
A friend of mine was pregnant so I purchased a pregnancy test for her to take knowing it would produce a positive result and saved it to show my husband after he got home.
Lucky for him, I couldn’t keep a straight face for long! 😀
Kimmy Davis says
I didn’t do this, but I think about it every year…..
This was when Titanic was the be all, end all of movies, and people couldn’t get enough of Leonardo DiCaprio (kind of like Robert Pattinson right now.) It was 1998, I’m thinking…. Anyway, one of the radio stations in Atlanta had for several weeks prior to 4/1 been having “technical difficulties” where you could hear the DJs talking over the music playing–they even had to pay a fine to the FCC for a curse word being said. So on April 1, they were discussing having Leo on the show later in the week, and during a song, you could hear one DJ tell the other one “Leo’s phone number.” There were THOUSANDS of phone calls to this number, leaving all kinds of messages from “Leo I love you please marry me” to “Dude, you need to kick these radio guys’ butts for giving out this number! But let’s hang out sometime!” Of course, the whole thing was a set-up, and they had material for WEEKS afterward, playing the humiliating messages on the air. It was awesome!
By the way, any Twilight fans out there…. TwilightLexicon.com has been hi-jacked today! Very cute practical joke 🙂
Kelly G. says
I froze a half a bowl of milk and then added just a little cereal on top and a little fresh milk on top and handed it to my son when he was about 5 years old. You should have seen the look on his face when he couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t eat his cereal!
tiffany says
Fake lotto scratch offs from that teen store in the mall. It wasn’t April Fool’s Day and my hubby was convinced he won 10K, it was good! On the back, it says to pick up ur money “At Yo Momma’s House”… thats when he finally got the joke. Man that was a good one, so good I have to call him and remind him.
Beckie says
When I was in college I had been dating my boyfriend (now husband) for a month and half. I called my mom and told her we were engaged and getting married memorial day weekend. She was trying not to freak out. Asked a lot of questions and tried to stay calm. Tim called and asked for her “permission” and she said she would call him back after talking my dad. I guess they were FREAKING OUT. They called all the fam (nothing is a secret) and told them and then late that night we told them April Fools. She about fell out of her chair. She cried she was so happy we were not engaged. She vowed to get me back. I am still waiting.
Jill says
This one was simple and it kept my kids busy for a long time. They decided to throw a birthday surprise for their dad. They taped up streamers made ribbon confetti and waited for dad to get home. When he walked in they yelled happy birthday and threw the confetti ribbon. Really this was not that funny as a prank, the funny part was watching my kids think they were so funny! We all got a good laugh.
Missy says
Alison said her kids have done this one as well and her kids thought they were SO tricky! This year my kids just kept saying, “Look, there’s a (whatever) over there!” Until you looked and they could yell, “April Fool’s!” I need to have them read my blog so they can be a little more creative…wait I am the victim – I think I will stick with the Look over there!
Jen says
My kids are on Spring Break. This morning I woke them up early, saying we had to get ready to meet Daddy at work before school. My oldest (11) knew right away…I kissed him and he went back to sleep. My youngest (6)grumbled his way out of bed, got dressed, got his backpack ready…it wasn’t until he realized his brother wasn’t downstairs that he knew something was up. I said, “April Fool’s Day Aiden!” He was stunned at first and then laughed…now he’s busy thinking of pranks he can play on his brother and friends today 🙂
Shelley says
My sweet mom just sent me this link… I thought it had some cute ‘family friendly (aka NOT mean) April Fools Jokes. http://www.homeschooling.net/blog/2010/april-fool-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DianeHopkins+%28Heart-to-Heart+with+Diane%29 Thanks Mom! 🙂
s'mee says
I convinced my son to buy all white linens to use while he was serving a 2 yr. mission, for no other reason than he’d have less to do if it the majority of his laundry was all white. The 2nd week in April I received a “Thank You” letter from him for the “all whites”.
The leadership in his area had keys to all the missionary apartments and “broke” in while they missionaries were out. They sprinkled same coloured kool aid powder in everyone’s towels- purple in the purple towels, red in the red, etc. That night when they guys all got home and had taken their showers, they all came out of their respective rooms covered in dye! The day after the prank the missionaries were required to show up at a conference. As they all walked into the conference room there was a huge sign that read “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, [or purple, or orange or green…] they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”(Isa.1:18)
The kool aid stained missionaries were every where and not “white as snow/wool” for a few days. The only one who didn’t get stained was my son, (who was dragged up to the stage later as an example of the Atonement).
I wish I had access to his photos! Seeing a group of about 45 young men all shades of the rainbow in their suits and ties was hilarious!
Ally Kunz says
How funny! I loved this story, it made me laugh out loud. I’ve got to tell my husband about this one – Luckily nothing like this ever happened to him on his mission!
Samantha says
My mother is quite gullible so a few years ago I got a male colleague to phone her telling her he was from the phone company and asking her if she ever had crackling on the line when she made a phonecall (I already knew that she did). He was really good and kept a straight face the whole time telling her that this was because of leaves and debris getting into the tubes carrying the phone cables to her house. He asked her to get a refuse sack to go over the ear piece of the phone so that from his end they could use machinery to blow the leaves and debris out through her phone and he wanted to minimise the mess in her house. Everyone in work was hysterical as my mother put the phone down then came back to tell him she had a bag. At this point he cracked up and my mother caught on! She thumped him (good naturedly) next time she saw him!
Shelley says
Oh that one is hilarious! I seriously can’t stop laughing thinking about it! Thanks for sharing!!! 🙂
Babsaatridge says
I am 73 years old and when I was about six years old, my dad pulled this on one of our family friends. This was when they had the wall phones. We went over to their house that night and she told us how much stuff had blown into the bag. My dad was laughing hysterically. She said Johnny you got me again. He was always a prankster.
India says
Oh that is hilarious! I am just about crying its so funny!
Peggy Gorman says
I love pranking the kids when they were younger but they always caught me! One year I bought a couple of lottery tickets and then on April fools day (it just happened to be on the day after the lottery) and then I bought a ticket with the winning numbers and placed it between the tickets. I was busy getting dinner ready and I said “I didn’t check the lottery tickets.”Matt, David and Sarah said ,”can we check them?” and I said ,”OK kids,that would be great!”
I am in the kitchen trying not to laugh and I hear them in the dining room ,thats a number,and then a ooh,and then ,look,another number,and then they were jumping up and down saying ,Mom, we won the lottery!!!I was laughing so hard!! I know it was mean and I had to put a stop to it when they started to call their friends!!
It was the year I finally got my kids on Aprils Fools Day!!
They still talk about it!!
Michelle says
This was bad on my part, but much deserved deserved on the receiving end! I bought plain cake donuts at the donut store. Then I bought chocolate exlax aand sprinkles at the grocery store. I made chocolate sprinkle donuts, put them back in the bakery bag, making sure to leave chocolate residue on the back to make it look more real. When my roommate returned home, she was extremely happy to see these yummy donuts in the kitchen. She at 3… and yep, it really does work! lololol. She spent an awful lot of time in the bathroom that night.
The Happy Wife/Danielle says
I haven’t done this one yet, but will. I also do not like “mean” pranks, but this one seems pretty harmless and the kids will love it. Put a drop or two of food coloring in the bottom of a cereal bowl and then put the cereal in it. When the person pours the milk in, it will change to the same color as the food coloring. (idea is from the Family Fun website)
Cori says
I did this to my 2 girls this morning… For anyone who hasn’t tried it yet but wants to, you need to add several more drops than you think you will. I put in about 5-6 drops of food coloring but when we poured the milk in you couldn’t really tell anything was different. We stirred it up with the spoon and that helped but next year I’ll add probably twice the amount. 🙂
Angela says
There have been two pranks that I have played, they have all been on my coworkers. The one last year was I went to a dear friend/coworker a couple weeks before April 1st to play it up and told her that my husband and I were having trouble in our marriage and they we got into a big agruement and it never got better. Every couple of days I would go to her and say my hubby called me names, or I slept on the couch, etc. On April 1st I went to her that morning with tears in my eyes and said He left me and filed for Divorce. She was shocked. She got up and gave me a hug and said if I needed anything she was there. I went half of the day walking around being sad. At lunch I went into her office to tell her I was going to an Attorney’s office (which I went to lunch with my hubby). When I got back from “my meeting” she asked me how it went and I said APRIL FOOL’S…she was mad!
Then today’s prank was, I put a post-it note under about 7 people’s mouse with April Fool’s hahaha. Three people turned their computers off and on, and nothing would working, they were frustrated ha ha, two people asked if our system was down, and one person figured it out right away. And the other person put it on someone else’s mouse. They all busted out laughing when they figured it out!
Missy says
You must have one SERIOUS poker face to pull that off!:) I love the post-it note idea – storing for next year!
Mia says
My Dad’s birthday is today, so we used to always try to get him really good on April Fool’s. A couple years back we took a whole diaper-genie worth of my (at the time) infant daughter’s diapers in the back of his car. (in a bag, so it wasn’t too disgusting) At the time he commuted nearly an hour every day to work, so even though he found the bag right away before he headed out to work, the stench lingered his whole ride there.
Tonya says
This is one of my favorite days. I usually start out by hanging my kid’s breakfast from a tree. Then, I do something like super gluing money to the sidewalk, sewing their beds shut, putting toothpaste in the middle of the oreos, and sewing all of their underwear together. Then I cook something unusual for dinner. I try to do funny things that are not mean; the kool aid in the towels is funny though. I would love to do that!
Missy says
Fun ideas for kids – I need to try harder on my kids next year. I woke up in the middle of the night and tried to switch them around to different beds, but just ended up waking them up and making them MAD, “I want to sleep in MY bed!” I thought they were deep sleepers…guess not. I think these ideas will work better!
Amie Jo says
how do you hang their breakfast from the tree?
Tonya says
I buy things like juice boxes, Gogurts, Poptarts, or Granola Bars. Then I tie them with string to the branches of a tree outside. When they are ready for breakfast I tell them it is hanging in the tree, they can go pick it. They love it.
Ali Smith says
My husband decided it would be really funny to call me this morning and tell me that the quarterly numbers for his company came out and they were NOT good. 14 of their most tenured employees had been laid off, three area managers included. Also another a trainer (which is his position) had been laid off. He went the whole nine, throwing in details like that they had a company wide conference call at 8am and he didn’t have a good feeling. He said his travel for the following week had been canceled with no notice to him. He only knew because his American Express card that the flights were linked to send him email verifications to his personal email address that the company didn’t know he subscribed to. Blah blah blah. Any way…in the end he says “there’s only one thing I know for sure…
…you’ve been FOOLED!”
Needless to say it wasn’t really that funny. TO ME. He thought it was hilarious. Lol. Men. Sheesh.
Missy says
That IS mean – but I have to say I relate with your husband, something about successfully tricking someone…
annie says
The best one pulled on me was someone dipped cotton balls in cotton. They looked like hand-dipped chocolates, but they still make me shudder thinking about biting into that cotton ball.
But the funniest prank was pulled on the rival high school. It wasn’t an April Fool’s joke, it was before the neighboring rival town’s football game against our team. Someone had sneaked to their football field, laid down a Giant D stencil (for our team’s name) and sprinkled grass fertilizer inside it.
They removed the stencil, went home and let the sprinklers handle the rest. As they watered their football field, the part that was fertilized began to grow a giant GREEN D. Try as they might, they couldn’t erase that D. They even removed the fertilized grass and tried to replace it, but that D continued to show for several months.
Courtney Carpenter says
I VIDEO TAPED my boys eating what they thought was a chocolate cupcake with blue frosting!!! It actually was meatloaf and mashed potatoes 🙂
HAHAH HAPPY FOOLS DAY BOYS! FUNNIEST VIDEO EVER 🙂
Diana @ The Girl Creative says
Me and my friend Karen used to constantly play jokes on our friend and co-worker, Tom (April Fools Day or not).We printed out a big picture of him and put on the bottom of it “Tom for President” and then stuck it on his car antena and he drove halfway home from work with it. We even took a funny pic of this lady at work that we used to poke fun at, blew it up and taped it to his passenger side door with the words “I love this woman” on it. While driving home on the highway me and Karen would drive in the carpool lane and harrass Tom while he sat in traffic. He knew something was up because we kept laughing at him. Finally we told him what we did (while passing him on the highway) and he drove home in the right lane the rest of the way so that no one would see it. LOL He was a great sport. 🙂
Tanya says
We had a “Backwards Party”… made “eggs and bacon” (white choc w a yellow m&m for the egg and toostie roll & carmel squares warmed to form together into bacon) a pizza made from sugar cookies, strawberry jam, coconut and cut circles out of strawberry fruit rollups.
Had little jokes sitting at the table written backwards so we had to read the messages by using the mirror. That was tons of funny!
And, our lit game after eating, was playing Scramble but each word is placed down backwards; so came is emac.
Kate says
A pile of cool-wip and half a peach, looks like a sunny side up ostrich egg. Breakfast or dessert.
Erin says
When I was really young we were adding a second floor to our house. It was framed and covered in plastic. My older brother and sister dressed up like homeless people and climbed up in the rafters with blocks of wood. My job as the sweet innocent child was to go to my dad and say,”Daddy I heard noises upstairs and I’m really scared!” I pulled it off perfectly. My dad went and got a his extra large maglight and stompped up the unfinished stairs while my mom held me back for safety. My dad is 6’4″ so it was loud. My siblings had been dropping their blocks to make noise. It was so funny when he shined the flashlight up and saw his kids. He was so shocked that I was in on it all!
Caroline says
My best one was several years ago and my husband and kids still talk about it every year. unfortunately, NOTHING has ever ever measured up since then.
My husband USED to have all of his clothes for work laid out the night before. As is often the case, I was up later than him. I slipped into the bathroom where his clothes were, with a needle and thread. I sewed the fly on his boxers shut. He had no idea until he got to work and went to the bathroom at about 9:30 that morning. He even had a good time telling all of his employees about it and we have laughed at how confused he was at that moment ever since.
Rachel says
A few years ago in February, my now husband proposed, so being a total prankster, I hunted on the web and all local stores for a look-a-like replica of my engagement ring. After 2 months of searching frantically, I FINALLY found it, and popped the center stone out. The trick was letting HIM find it rather than TELLING him and making it look like a prank, especially since he’s super suspicious on that day anyway. So I touched my face a lot and made a lot of hand gestures until HE found it and yelled “RACHEL WHERE IS YOUR DIAMOND!!!”
Charmaine says
orajel in the toothbrush.. I did this over 20 years ago to a roommate and the legend still lives on, no one has been able to top it. Works especially well if they brush their tongue!
Belinda Garlough says
My favorite April Fool’s Day prank was the year I was pregnant with my 3rd. I was 8 months along and going to the doctor every week for checkups. Since I needed a urine sample each visit the nurse sent a bunch of the sample cups home with me. On April Fool’s I filled 3 of them with apple juice and sent them in my husband and kid’s lunches…I got some interesting phone calls from my family that day! Once they realized what I had done, they laughed too…but nobody had a drink with lunch 🙂
Kay says
One of my coworkers was convinced that she had a mouse in her office, so another coworker and I stayed late one night to set the scene. We shaved little bits of chocolate onto the top of her desk to look like droppings… All leading to an opened peppermint with a “bite” taken out of it.
The next morning was hilarious! She didn’t want to work in her office, and we actually kept it a secret until the day we discovered there actually had been a mouse in her office… because we discovered it dead under a bookshelf (the smell gave it away). Still to this day it’s one of the funniest memories we have with her!
Shala says
My best ever prank was on my husband. I told him all day long I felt sick, maybe it was a bladder infection etc. I finally said I am go to the Dr. and I’ll meet up with you after. Instead I hadn’t gone to the Dr. but I did find an ultrasound online and printed it out. When I came home he asked what the Dr. said and I handed him the paper. He says, “Really!? Really?!” with a super shocked/unhappy look on his face. I laughed until I cried. It pretty much solidified that we were “two and through.” LOL! (And he does not like to be reminded that I pranked him so well either. Ha Ha!)
Sherri says
I asked my friend to pick me up at the bus stop he had to travel an hour to town… I was in another province…
Michelle says
I loved playing pranks in college, my roommates and I would do pranks back and forth with an apartment of boys that lived below us. There was Saran Wrap on the toilet, koolaid in the shower head, cups of water covering the bedroom floor, room full of balloons, mattresses stacked up in the living room with dummies on top…… It was awesome. But my favorite prank of all time was a couple of years later, I had made some wheat bread but for some reason it didn’t rise my roommate and I were playing with the dough and she said it kind of looked like poop – immediately an idea formed, people were always leaving their dorm room doors open and there was a bathroom fairly close to the door so we made a bunch of “logs” and whoever had left their door open got a “log” on their toilet 🙂 no one left their doors open after that but the reactions were hilarious – we even took pictures of us posing with it on our own toilet just for fun. I still die laughing every time I see those pictures 🙂
Zenaida says
Last year, I decided to do a very friendly prank that I found online on my family since my kids are only 5 and 4 years old. I had a bag of goggly eyes in my art storage so the night before April Fool’s Day I glued the eyes on everything in the refrigerator. When my husband and kids went to open the refrigerator the next day, it looked as if all the food in there were staring right at them. It was so cute to see my kids open the refrigerator, and find my little friendly prank super hilarious. 🙂 Happy prank searching!
amy K says
My college roommate and I had a blast with April Fool’s pranks. Best one was when she put a small stitch in all of her roommates underpants and they were all stitched together. When the roommate, who had an early morning class, got up and was in a rush, she grabbed her underwear and every one of them was pulled out of the drawer!! Needless to say, she went commando to class!!!
Brenda Lee says
I just had to comment about a few April Fool’s Day pranks that I did on a co-worker. “Mike” is the one person in the office who people would love to prank because he’s such a good sport about everything and is just a great, fun guy…plus, he’s normally the one who would be pulling pranks in the office. 🙂
One year, I had a couple other co-workers distract him while I snatched his keys from his desk drawer (he always puts them in the drawer, so I knew exactly where to find his keys). Then, I went down to the garage and moved his car to a different floor and on a ramp that wasn’t very visible from the elevators. Then, I nonchalantly put his keys back.
When it came time to leave work, my fellow pranksters and I followed him to the garage. We all got on the same elevator, but of course we got off on the floor where I moved the car to while he continued down to the floor where he parked his car in the morning.
We waited by his “re-parked” car and from where we were, we could see him coming out of the elevator on the floors below and above and check around for his car. After SEVERAL minutes, he finally found this car and us…laughing hysterically. He, of course, was a great sport about it like usual and laughed with us.
The following year, we “ballooned his car”. By this, I mean…we blew up about 50 water balloons (no water, of course) and then taped them all over the outside of his car. It looked like a float in a parade!!! LOL!!!
And finally, another year…we aluminum foiled everything in his office….I mean EVERY-thing….from the computer monitor to the stapler to his desk to his floor mat!! What we didn’t realize is that aluminum is a great conductor for energy. When he went to touch something, he got a bit of a shock.
Now…after all of these pranks, he got me good one year. As I returned from lunch on April Fools, I noticed a bunch of “odd” things in our office lobby. Well, they were parts from MY car!!! Items included my passenger seat….yes, the entire seat!!! Other items included my car jack, a hub cab, even the cap to the radiator!! Once I figured out that all of these parts were from MY car. I laughed SO hard. He got me REAL good. He helped me put all of the pieces back in my car and we called it a truce. Haven’t played a prank on each in the last 2 years. 😉
Hope you enjoyed these stories…..maybe even give you and others some ideas….LOL!!!
Sumer says
So i get one over on some of my best friends EVERY year…. but my biggest prank was texting some of my best friends that i had figured out why i wasnt losing weight, and that i was probably looking at a December due date. Some didn’t believe me, but since i had had four kids in a little over four years they really weren’t that surprised…. but i sure was when i figured out a couple weeks later that i was actually pregnant…. the joke was on me that year!!
Annelize says
I also like to pull pranks on people here at work. I ones put a piece of black masking tape under everybodies pc mouse. They couldn’t understand what is wrong with it. The 1 guy even unplug his hole pc. The lady that answers the phone. I put cellotape over the botton, when the phone rings and she answers, it just keeps on ringing. She thought it was broken. The boss told her to use the other phone instead. (he put Marmite on the ear piece). She didn’t think that we were funny at all. But we cracked ourself.
Michelle says
My husband always takes a packed lunch from home each day to work (or in the case of this prank, school). We had 3 young children at the time and were finishing up college degrees so eating out each day was not an option. Of course, I was always the one to pack his lunch every morning. My husband really loves to eat, and is a bit of a picky eater as well. On April Fools, I decided to have a little fun. In the morning I packed things like a tupperware of rocks, a box of unmade pudding, and other totally inedible items, some wrapped nicely in foil or plastic wrap. The kids and I drove to the parking lot (he always ate in the car at this time too) at his lunch time and waited for him to come out. I was able to sneak up without him noticing me and watch his expression as he opened each inedible lunch item. The looks on his face were priceless, I was laughing so hard I could barely creep up to the car to surprise him. We then hurried to a quick lunch out at his favorite fast food place. He’s always admitted that was his favorite prank ever.
Barb says
My mother was the queen of April Fool’s pranks! One year in junior high, I opened my lunch to find a peanut butter & jelly sandwich–only to realize that the pb&j was only on the edges of the bread; inside was newspaper! Included along with that lunch was a plastic pear and a chocolate cream-filled cupcake…but the “cream filling” was cotton balls. I had a lovely lunch of a carton of milk that day! Another time she baked a cake for the choir director’s birthday; it was beautifully decorated. Unfortunately, the cake was actually cardboard she had fashioned into a cake shape and then covered with an elaborate frosting design.!
Jennifer says
I love to prank, only the non mean kinds. One year my youngest daughter and I coated the bar of soap with clear nail polish. When my husband went to shower the soap would not lather. We were killing ourselves laughing just thinking of how perplexed he was. Super funny
jen r. says
I just LOVE April Fool’s but never seem to have the energy when the big day comes along! So here’s my favorite low-effort trick that I laugh so hard about even 4 years later!!
When my son was 4 I wanted to play a “mild’ prank on him (something that wouldn’t make him cry or have to go to therapy later in life). All I did was safety pin the bottom of his pants together, and I can’t believe how long it took my sleepy 4 year-old to figure out his feet weren’t going through the pant legs!! I think I even recorded the entire thing (speaking of–i need to find that footage!).
After the joke was played on him we sneakily safety-pinned my husband’s sweatshirt sleeves together, too (so he couldn’t slip his hands through the sleeve). My son thought he was the ultimate prankster 😉
It was just too funny to watch!!!!
Judy says
Several years ago on my 30th bday, my husband posted birthday wishes for me along my route to work. Periodically a car would honk it’s horn at me, which I thought was either odd or I was looking really fabulous that day. Come to find out he made a sign of plywood and strung it up under my car so I wouldn’t notice it, but the cars behind me would. After I was in the office for an hour or so my boss came in and said she liked my sign! I went to OK and sure enough, there was a sign hanging that read “honk, I’m 30 today!”. I got a good chuckle out of that one
Daniel Jalensky says
UNFORTUNATELY I am on dialysis so my APRIL Fools joke is this naturally no alcohol is allowed on the premises so I bought a fifth of brandy I will save the brandy rinse bottle really well and refill with root beer and bring in a can of COKE and a small shot glass this should send the RN thru the roof for a few seconds since it will be 15 yrs on dialysis I will tell her I’M celebrating