April 1st, also known as April Fools' Day, is a day when people let themselves be foolish, prank people in their own lives, and try not to fall victim to pranks themselves. Sadly, sometimes, people can take it too far and come up with ideas that really hurt people. After all, the day’s supposed to be about fun, not sadness. So, today, we have gathered a list of pranks for this occasion that will make your “victims” laugh and not shed tears.More info:RedditThis post may includeaffiliate links.
April 1st, also known as April Fools' Day, is a day when people let themselves be foolish, prank people in their own lives, and try not to fall victim to pranks themselves. Sadly, sometimes, people can take it too far and come up with ideas that really hurt people. After all, the day’s supposed to be about fun, not sadness. So, today, we have gathered a list of pranks for this occasion that will make your “victims” laugh and not shed tears.
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I made fake dog poops out of tootsie rolls that matches the size and consistency of what our Yorkie produces from her back end. Then I left them on the floor where my wife would see them.After she woke up and made the discovery, I heard her yell, cursing at the dog. “I’ll get it.” I replied, and promptly picked them up and popped them in my mouth and chewed them up.The look on her face was priceless.
My son once filled my purse with bras that I had to remove at the register to reach my wallet.
Buy a toilet brush identical to the one you already have. Then place the new one in the dishwasher.When she notices, and maybe freaks out a little, remind her that you have been washing it like that for months/years without her complaining.
April Fools’ Day (or it can be called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom of practicaljokesand hoaxes that is always on April 1st. Historically, the custom focuses on harmless pranks and jokes being played and “April Fools!” being shouted afterward, but sadly, sometimes people take thingstoo far.And it’s not only just regular people getting involved in these jokes – big organizations andcorporationscan be on them, too. Even the mass media sometimes partakes in these pranks, revealing the truth the next day.
April Fools’ Day (or it can be called All Fools' Day) is an annual custom of practicaljokesand hoaxes that is always on April 1st. Historically, the custom focuses on harmless pranks and jokes being played and “April Fools!” being shouted afterward, but sadly, sometimes people take thingstoo far.
And it’s not only just regular people getting involved in these jokes – big organizations andcorporationscan be on them, too. Even the mass media sometimes partakes in these pranks, revealing the truth the next day.
A few years ago, I changed my wife’s birthday on Facebook to be April 1st. She spent all day confused why she was getting happy birthday messages.
Put jello in cup. put straw in cup while jello solidifies. looks like a refreshing fruit beverage. give to so. they try to drink it. cant, its jello. pranked. give spoon.
We told a coworker there was vandalism in the parking lot and it looked like his tires were slashed. When he got out to his car we had taped photos of Slash to his tires. (Starts sad and ends happy).
For instance, in 1957, the BBC television program Panorama ran ahoax, and the purpose was to show the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. After this broadcast, many people reached out to the BBC, wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti trees.Another example would be theBBCreporting that they’re conducting a trial of a new technology that allows the transmission of odors over the airwaves to all viewers. Funnily, for loads of viewers, the placebo effect worked, and they contacted BBC to tell them the trial was a success when, in reality, it couldn’t have been. It even happens today, so many years after the initialprank.
For instance, in 1957, the BBC television program Panorama ran ahoax, and the purpose was to show the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. After this broadcast, many people reached out to the BBC, wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti trees.
Another example would be theBBCreporting that they’re conducting a trial of a new technology that allows the transmission of odors over the airwaves to all viewers. Funnily, for loads of viewers, the placebo effect worked, and they contacted BBC to tell them the trial was a success when, in reality, it couldn’t have been. It even happens today, so many years after the initialprank.
Leave oranges around the house when they’re sleeping. Throughout the day, hand them oranges. When they’re talking, say “Hold this for a sec” and hand them an orange.Confuse, don’t abuse.
Not a SO, but I remember coming back from school and my sister said there were brownies in the fridge. I went there, opened it up and there were a few brown ‘E’s. She cut up some papers in the shape of an ‘E’ and colored them brown. That little s**t.
One year I painted my husband’s soap bar with clear nail polish, let it dry, and put it back in the shower. It would not lather no matter how hard he tried.
Interestingly, there are no clear origins where this funny day came from. Of course, there aretheoriesabout it. For instance, some historians link it to the Hilaria festival in ancient Rome, which was marked at the end of March. This custom involved people dressing in disguises and mocking fellow citizens.
Some othersargue that this modern custom originates from France due to the Edict of Roussillon, in which Charles IX declared that the new year would begin on January 1st instead of Easter. And since Easter was lunar, meaning it was a moveable date, those who clung to the old ways were the “April Fools.”
I ordered several prank books with horrifyingly awkward titles. I’m placing them in a box labeled with my neighbor’s address. I’m going to bring them inside as if they were mistakenly delivered to my house, and have instructed my son to rip the box open whilst it’s unattended on the counter. My husband will now have the unenviable job of taking our neighbors their opened box of books with titles like,“A**l Bleaching for Beginners”. I coordinated with the neighbors with instructions to make my husband squirm with discomfort over opening their package. I will give him a good five minutes over there, and then finally let him realize he’s been pranked.
Tell them you’re planning a huge prank, but don’t actually do anything. It can be fun to watch someone waiting for a prank that never comes.
Putting googley eyes on everything.
A few years ago, my partner tempered some chocolate and made me a mixed bag of flavours to enjoy. Macadamias, crushed hazelnut, etc… then I came across the ONE! A chocolate covered cherry tomato. It was absolutely disgusting and quite a shock.
This happened many years ago, but we still laugh over it. Not my husband, but my teenage son. I turned on the kitchen faucet and the sprayer sprayed me in the face. There was an elastic band that held the sprayer on. Totally thinking this was my husband, I called him up at work and yelled at him. After he stopped laughing, he promised it wasn’t him. That left only one person. My son. My son thought it was very funny.
I switch the bags in different boxes of cereal. Set the alarm to a different sound. Replace family pictures with pictures of Danny devito.
One April Fools I carved a chunk of cheese into the shape of a bar of soap and swapped it out before my husband got in the shower.
This year I’m doing pun based jokes. I got a bunch of beets.One will have a thermometer in it: Sick BeetSeveral will be around a bush: Beet around the bushTwo have little boxing gloves: Beet boxingPainted “b” “c” and “d” on beets: Skip “a” beetTurnip with a name tag that says “the beet”: Turnip (turn up) the beetBeet taped to the ceiling: up beet.
Here’s what I’m doing for my husband tomorrow: our favorite pizza place cuts their pizzas into strips. We’ve been going there weekly for 24 years. I worked it out with the owner that tomorrow the guys are going to cut our pizza into traditional triangle slices. He will FREAK OUT! Ha!! I thought of this prank last year and I’ve been waiting to use it for months!! I’m so excited!!Edited to add: I hear you! I will update you guys tomorrow! You’ve made my night - thank you for sharing in my excitement. :).
When we were kids, my sisters and I took all of my dad’s underwear and socks and sewed them together end to end so that when you pulled one out, they all came out. They were super loosely sewed together (like two long stitches each) so it was easy to cut them apart.
I unrolled the toilet paper a bit, drew a big hairy spider on it, and then rolled it back up.
A number of years ago I put pop-rocks under the toilet seat after he went to bed. His morning poop woke him up better than coffee! He loved it, I loved it, 10/10 prank.
I switched up the order of my brothers drawers once. He was not amused and neither was mom. I still think it was funny and completely harmless.
Buy a leek from the shop and put it under the sink. Then tell your SO that you think theres a leak under the sink and ask them to look for it.
If you SO works from home and you know any of their coworkers, take a picture of whatever is behind them when working from home so coworkers can use as background on camera meetings.
My husband changed my autocorrect in my phone to make “you” swap to “ya’ll.” He’s lucky he picked a forgivable prank.
My mom always changes the clock times when my dad takes a nap to make him think he slept for like 8 hoursdoesn’t work now that we all have smartphones .
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My husband has this silly thing that he loves pretending it snowed and gets me all excited to see out the window (I love snow). We’ve had some pretty random weather lately so I think I might be able to pull off pretending it snowed. Pretty sure he has no idea its April 1st tomorrow either.
My bf is a daily PC gamer so I’m gonna do the ol' Ctl + Alt + ⬇️ and flip his screens upside down.
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I was head of IT at the time. I sent a memo to all staff saying that the phone lines were dirty and that we were going to blow them out with compressed air. They had instructions to ask for a phone bag or put the phone in their trash can. I walked around the office at the end of the day and found half a dozen phones in trash cans and three staff members asked our receptionist for a phone bag.
You could flock them - but a ton of hot pink lawn flamingos and stick them in the yard overnight.
I’m changing my wife’s scale from kgs to lbs. the gasped shock is going to be tremendous.
Given the timing, you could hide a few dozen easter eggs around your home. I did that one easter with 144 eggs in a one-bedroom apartment, it’s been two or three years and there’s still a few unaccounted for. You could also try rubber ducks or tiny plastic figurines or whatever you can get your hands on.
My dad once printed out a load of pictures of Martin Clunes (long story) and stuck them in ridiculous places around the house for everyone to find. We were finding him (and laughing about it) months later.Replace with any famous person you have a weird in-joke about, or just someone totally random.
A couple of years ago, my wife and oldest son gave me an Oreo when I got home from work. I thought it was a little odd, and when I bit into it and discovered the cream had been swapped out for Colgate, I realized why.
Tip over a bottle of nail polish onto wax paper. Make it look like it got knocked over and spilled. Let it dry and trim off the excess wax paper. Now you have the perfect prank to leave on your significant others computer desk, bedside table, iPad.
I turn stuff around in my partners game room. Nothing that would break or get damaged. But just his figurines, keyboard etc. just enough for him to go wtf a little.
Get one of those singing cards and rig a door that they will open. When the door opens, the door sings at them.
I get my family nice things and then I say oh man you guys have to see the mess the cats made downstairs. Can you help me clean it?? It’s pretty bad. Then there’s no mess! Just gifts!
Hiding a plastic dinosaur in the refrigerator.
I hid mini bottles of liquor around the house in addition to the kids' Easter eggs. I imagine he’ll still be finding them tomorrow.
Change the settings on their Alexa to speak in a different accent.Or a less fun that my wife did to me: thumbtack on the snooze button.
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