Thanks to shows like The Office and New Girl, pranks have become a part of the daily life among roommates and friends. Contrary to what our teens might think, even parents like to get in on a good joke. After 364 days of nurturing, herding, cajoling, chauffeuring, and picking up after our loved ones, it’s nice to have a day where we can take a break to play with our family and just be silly together.
If you’re ready to surprise someone you love with a playful April Fools’ Day Prank, these 20 creative suggestions are sure to have you in stitches, and your “victims” rolling their eyes at you until next week.
Find The Perfect Prank
Cover the sensor so the cursor won't detect the mouse's movements.
Tape airhorn to chair. Watch victim jump through the ceiling.
A most foul mix of candies.
Stuff toilet paper into your kids' shoes.
Why can't I pick this coin up?
Without your child knowing, tape a sign that says, “Honk and wave to x, he doesn't know this is here!”
Exercise your lungs for the sake of comedy.
Rather than making them brownies, make them brown “E's.”
Cleanliness is something your prankee will go without.
Expecting water to fall on their hands, it will instead spray them in the face.
It's like solving a puzzle just to answer a phone call.
“Where are my shoes?” You hear them ask as you laugh to yourself.
Just unplug it and plug it back in.
If the coffee didn't wake them up, turning on their car certainly will.
Get a fishing pole, some string and tape, and you're going to have a lot of fun.
Make your kids think they've been sleepwalking.
Confuse your fellow motorists during the morning commute.
“Is this real life?” is what will run through your child's mind.
Rearrange your coworker's keyboard letters for hilarious confusion.
Replace the Oreo filling with toothpaste
Computer Mouse Won't Work
Description
Take a piece of paper, and tape it on the underside of your coworker's mouse. Granted, this trick will likely be figured out rather quickly, but it will be fun to watch them be confused for a few seconds.
Air Horn Surprise
Description
Using tape and, obviously, an air horn, strap it to the underside of the victim's chair or on the wall behind a door. When your victim sits on their chair or opens the door, the air horn will be hit and go off. The scream of surprise will likely be louder than the air horn itself, but that's what makes this prank fun.
These Candies Don't Belong Together
Description
Do you want to see the most sour-looking face on your friends or coworkers? Mix together a bowl of Skittles®, M&M's® and Reese's® Pieces. Of course, no one will ever trust you with candy again, but it's worth it.
Big Feet
Description
In the morning, casually mention to them that their feet look bigger. When they go to put on their shoes their feet won't fit, causing a few seconds of wonder at how they became Big Foot over night.
Hey, a Penny!
Description
Super glue a coin to the ground outside, and watch your unsuspecting victims struggle to compute why they can't pick it up. Andy Kaufman would be proud of this prank.
Honk and Wave
Description
On the ride to school, your child will suddenly be bombarded by people honking and waving at them. The look of confusion on your child's face will be one to cherish for many years.
Office Balloon Party
Description
Fill your coworker's office or cubicle with balloons. Watch as hilarity ensues.
Make Brown E's for a Friend
Description
If disappointment on someone else's face is how you like your pranks to end, then this is perfect. Rather than getting a piece of delicious brownie, they will get a piece of brown construction paper cut in the shape of an E.
Nail Polish Soap
Description
Nail polish will prevent a bar of soap from lathering. So when the prankee is trying to scrub themselves clean, the soap they're using simply won't work. Of course, you will be unable to witness this prank take place, so you'll just have to imagine the look of confusion.
Sink Spray
Description
If you have a sink with a separate sprayer, put a rubber band around the handle and watch as the unsuspecting victim gets drenched upon turning on the faucet.
Rubber Band Phone
Description
Take valuable time out of someone else's day by wrapping 100 rubber bands around their phone. To really make it fun, call their phone and see what it looks like when someone gives up.
Who Steals a Shoe?
Description
Go into their closet, and take one of each of their shoes. You can really go all out by leaving ransom notes in place of the shoe and sending them on a scavenger hunt.
Frozen Desktop
Description
Replace your coworker's normal desktop screen with a screenshot of it. Hide all the icons so they can't click on them, and laugh to yourself as they try to figure out what's wrong.
Full Blast
Description
Turn everything in your spouse's, or perhaps your child's, car on full power. The heat (or air conditioning, whichever is funnier), the radio, the wiper blades, everything you can think of.
Catch a Dollar
Description
Making sure all fish hooks are removed, tape a dollar bill to the string, and put it somewhere your kids will find it but you can remain hidden. As they reach down to grab it, reel in the bill. Watching them give chase will bring a lot of joy.
The Ol' Switcheroo
Description
Parents, want to trick your kids? Wait until they're sound asleep, pick them up, and then place them in each other's room. *Caution, not a recommended prank against high school teenagers.
Cup on a Roof
Description
Using small magnets and tape, you can make it appear as though you've left a coffee cup on the roof of your car. As helpful citizens pull alongside to tell you that you've left something on top of the car, merely hold up a sign that reads, “April Fools.”
Frozen Cereal
Description
The night before, freeze a bowl of cereal. In the morning, take it out before your kid comes downstairs waddling like a zombie with their eyes half open. When you give them the bowl and they try to eat it but are denied by frozen solid milk, hilarity will ensue.
Keyboard Jumble
Description
“Uiz br eq tyvopslk xgh cfadjmy” is what will appear when they mean to type, “Why is my keyboard not working.”
Clean Teeth Oreo's
Description
Be sure to use fluoride-free toothpaste as fluoride can be toxic in large doses. Although we doubt any of your victims will be fooled long enough to swallow this atrocity.
