I love playing tricks and pranks on my kids on April Fool’s Day. The older kids are totally on to me and start expecting stuff from the minute they wake up {and I kind of enjoy keeping them on edge all day!} but the younger kids are still free game and fall for everything. If you want to play some tricks on your kids or loved ones this year, check out these fun and easy April Fool’s Day pranks!
This year I’m definitely putting clear nailpolish on the soap in our showers. This post at Lady-Create-a-Lot has a lot of great pranks and I might be incorporating a few others into our day! I like this soap idea because at the end of the day you can scrape the top off the soap and still use the rest.
I’d love to hear about your favorite tricks and pranks … leave me a comment and let me know how you’ve tricked your family or what you plan to do this year. Or has someone pranked you in a way that was really great? Feel free to share a photo on the Dukes and Duchesses facebook page of your best pranks!
Fun! My favorite was the parking ticket.
No tricks here. In fact, I’m not sure my kids even know what April fool’s is.
Weren’t you crock potting this week?
i once tried to play a trick on my niece and nephew for april fool’s day, but my brother ruined it. i dropped blue food coloring in the milk and instead of my brother going along with the prank, he threw it out?! hello!! ruined! my dad once pretended like he cut his hand really badly and had fake blood in a napkin and came running in the house! he’s fun like that! now you have me thinking, about what i should do this year!? i love a good joke!
thanks for sharing!
cheers!
LHH
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my favorite April Fools prank was one year when after having our THIRD daughter I told my husband I was pregnant. HA you should have seen his face!
We froze our kids (clean!) underpants in the freezer the night before. When we got them out – they were solid and flat – you should have seen them trying to peel them apart to get them on! They were really torn between following directions and disobeying! Of course – they were only 3 or 4 at the time.
These crack me up!
Love it!! I must pin for April fool’s, my hubby will love it!
I once ‘cured’ my son of his habit of leaving the tiniest bit of ice cream in the container. In an empty carton I put a bit of water and let it freeze. The next time he went for a treat he opened it to find nothing but ice ;O) We had a good laugh and he never forgot it.
Here’s three awesome pramks to pull on your kids:
1) Put tape on your faucet Result: Water sprays EVERYWHERE!!!
2) If your kids keep their toothbrushes in a jar, pour water in the jar then freze it. Result: Your kids can’t get their brushes out.
3) Switch all of your cereal bags and see how long it takes them to find the right kind of cereal they wee looking for!!!
Those are such great ideas … I’m definitely adding those to next year’s plans! Thanks for sharing!
All really funny!
Our all time favorite is…
Place a few TINY DROPS of clear corn syrup (Karo syrup) on the toilet seat. Let it dry . When the person tries to stand they are stuck to the seat.
IMPORTANT WARNING
THIS STUFF IS STICKY! CLEANS EASILY WITH HOT WATER.
I’m the king of April Fools.
1. One year I woke them up and told them that their mom and I had decided to change their names, they were now named Steve and Kaitlin.
2. Woke my son up early on April 1,and told him I had bought a Porsche. Had him running down the block at 7am in the morning HA Ha.
3. Printed off a letter on fake School letterhead stating that due to budget cuts Spring Break was canceled.
4. Had them convinced we were going to paint their rooms ugly orange and green. Even had them start putting plastic over their furniture.
Those are all SO good! I love the Spring Break one!
My favorite prank thus far was putting glitter in the vents of my husband’s car, turning the vents at the driver’s seat and turning them on high. When he started the car it was like a glitter bomb went off.
My kids learned from my bad examples! When my daughter was in second grade, she shook hands with her kindergarten teacher with the hand buzzer in place; the poor woman’s screech was heard all over the school. Some fool of an Easter bunny gave both kids plastic bugs one year. My son floated ants in my Diet Pepsi; I put them in his sock drawer. They migrated back to to my Mr. Coffee basket… One of the all time faves, tho, was when we had an OLD cat who did barf. My daughter called “Momma, come here quick, Jeremy just barfed all over the rug.” I ran for the spray cleaner and a roll of paper towels, bent down and swiped the harmless rubber barf right across the rug! The kids howled with laughter! I came back from Disney World with the spilled red nail polish and melting Creamsicle for my daughter. Her friend’s house had been burglarized; the burglars stole the furniture. They had just gotten BRAND NEW furniture when she went for an overniter and left the spilled nail polish on the coffee table and the creamsicle on the hutch. The poor mother just freaked! My daughter’s friendship did survive, though! One Halloween my son, Pat, left the severed bleeding hand on the milk jug handle in the fridge. Who’s up first and uses milk in her coffee!!! And then, there was the Halloween that Wal-Mart had marked their decorations down to half price. I had to buy the pantleg with the bare foot Well, then I had to hang it from my car trunk immediately in the parking lot–and got caught by normal responsible passersby who smiled weakly when I explained I had to do it caz it was half off! One Halloween at the stable where my daughter took lessons, they did a haunted barn. She dressed up as a scarecrow complete with straw coming out of her sleeves, gloves, and a horrible full head mask; she perched motionless on a hay bale. Some guy came out of the barn complaining that it wasn’t very scarey; he kicked the “scarecrow” and was SCARED when she jumped at him. My stepson handed the envelope of ” rattlesnake eggs” (a bent hairpin with a washer on a twisted elastic) to his grandfather who threw the envelope about 610 feet as the envelope started to “rattle.” And Pat has gotten me one too many times with an elastic on the kitchen sink sprayer aimed directly at me! That water sure is cold! It’s dull with them grown and gone; thanks for bringing back the memories. Everyone’s gags are great!
You have the pranks down to an art form! Thanks so much for sharing all the fun!
LOVE ALL these prank ideas!!! EVEN the ones posted in comments!!!! I’m going to pin thus JUST so I can do some of these this year as my WHOLE family will be together for Easter!!!! Thank YOU ALL SO MUCH!!!!!
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Years ago when I worked in an office that I shared with my boss, I called his phone number. When he answered it, phone kept ringing and ringing. I had put scotch tape over the buttons and when he picked up the receiver it kept ringing as those little buttons were still depressed.
That’s the best!