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I rarely participate in pranks (1st April also happens to be my birthday so I'm usually preoccupied), which is why H is never going to see it coming....

Anybody care to share some prank ideas and anecdotes?

My rules;

- No physical harm

- No emotional abuse

- Preferably inexpensive

My mum used to do food based pranks. Taking the foil wrappers off mini chocolate eggs and putting them on grapes. Taking brussel sprouts, dipping them in chocolate and then putting them inside ferrero rocher wrappers (this one is particularly bad as you can't tell until you bit into it!)

When I lived in halls I know someone who went into a friends room, opened up the shower had and put in broken pieces of hard candy. It dissolves in hot water and gives them a sticky shower (I don't recommend this one as it has potential to really gum up the shower head - however, I believe it also works with bisto stock cubed )

Decorate the house for Halloween and flip all the calendars to October.

I prefer to play mind games with people for April Fool's Day. Most people make this extremely easy and satisfying.

Decorate the house for Halloween and flip all the calendars to October.

Totally doing this now! Thank you for this!

[This message edited by silverhopes at 2:00 PM, March 27th (Tuesday)]

I prefer to play mind games with people for April Fool's Day.

Hopefully not unkind mind games? Not gaslighting, right? What kind do you mean?

The kind of games that make people question their grip on reality. The kind that shake people out of their "autopilot" life for a few moments and force them to activate a few neurons.

..Well... there is always the clear cling wrap over the toilet seat..

..or.. swap out the vodka for white vinegar..

smy

When I worked at the group home we would sometimes have to get urine samples from our clients so we had a few of the sample bottles. One of the male staff decided to play a trick on one of the woman staff by filling a cup with apple juice and drinking it as.if he was drinking urine.

However.....Since some of us...Knew his plan we then filled his apple juice cup with salt when he wasn't looking..

So he went to take a drink and made an OMG this tastes gross face which made the woman HE was trying to trick totally believe he was drinking urine.

I was going to suggest cling wrap on the toilet but smy got to it first.

Change out the lock for a door so they go to open with their key and it doesn't work.

Change all the clocks to an hour ahead so they think they are late for work.

When I was a 5th grade teacher,we had fun w/it.

I wrote assignments backwards on the board*, we worked on a poetry unit w/certain words transposed, math puzzles rather than worksheets, ETC. I had to stick to the curriculum but we had fun with it!

Now that I'm retired, I guess I'll have to dream up something to trick my cats.

*A (practiced) skill acquired in MS when we had a teacher who would read aloud every note she intercepted. She couldn't read backwards cursive, so she threw mine & my BFF's notes away!

Lol, the halloween one is hilarious. I love the pee sample story (not one that I could find reason to recreate at home - thankfully)

And in the other toilet that you don't wrap with saran wrap, place a bowling ball, finger holes down, and pour some oil over it. Hell on wheels to get OUT of the toilet!

We had the keys to our friend's apartment while they went on honeymoon, to take care of things. They got back very, very late in the evening, early morning. They found a blow-up sex dummy, spread-eagle chained to their bed posts in the middle of their bed when they arrived. We did leave them the keys, in the kitchen, by the coffee maker.

So he went to take a drink and made an OMG this tastes gross face which made the woman HE was trying to trick totally believe he was drinking urine.

laughing hysterically now

Once I put two ketchup packets under the toilet seat, and when my father sat down on it *splat* all over his legs.... haha

Then I forgot that I'd done that, and he came and was like yeah so I went to the bathroom and looked down and there was red all over my legs..

we both had a good laugh!

Happy Birthday, TheCaterpillar.

One idea is to be soooooo uncharacteristically, over the top NICE and giving or respectful that they just KNOW something's up and the hammer's gonna fall and that you're up to no good.

I think April 1st often puts people's guards and suspicions up so high that they'll simply interpret every anomaly as a potential " enemy" instead of giving the benefit of the doubt.

Also, you could find a willing accomplice/actor to be a "needy" soul and with them present, put your spouse on the spot by agreeing to some outlandish act of mercy like keeping their (fictional or non fictional actual animal) St. Bernard in your bedroom/bathroom for a few days...

Or let them "catch" you getting things ready for the family member that HATES them to be supposedly staying there for a week or two while they're on vacation or down on their luck.

Or swap the hot and cold water supply lines on the sink and watch them try to figure out what they're doing wrong.

Or "bury" the family pet that you secretly, temporarily relocate...

or take a test drive with a new or (borrowed) vehicle home like it's yours because you just went out and bought it! And that vehicle thing could go all kinds of ways. Either " trade" waaaayyy DOWN (a Yugo or old tow truck) or trade waaaayyy UP (Sports/ultra-Luxury/expensive) or else go monster truck or something outlandish and crazy!

Alternatively, you could just borrow a "new" boat, a jet ski, a snowmobile, or a mobile smoker/food trailer or somesuch.

[This message edited by Cephastion at 11:35 AM, April 1st (Sunday)]

A simple spider hidden in the toilet roll or uder the toilet lid can be very effective too (H is terrified of them, i heard a whimper followed by laughter)

Also just to be geberally weird/unsettling i glued googly eyes to all the shamppoo, shower gels etc in the bathroom so they're watching him shower. I heard him laughing when he got in this morning. I also noticed they were all turned round to face the wall.

Really wish I'd seen the ketchup packet one sooner. We have a drawer full of them that we'll never use!!

I have always been one to prank my son, April Fool's Day or not. One of my favorites when he was younger (around three or four years old) involved the garage door. We would go out for a walk or a hike, and before hand I would put the garage door opener in my pocket. We'd get back home, and I'd put my hands in my pockets and tell him the garage door was voice activated, and all he had to do was say "open sesame", and the garage door would open.

He got so ticked off at me when one day I forgot the garage door opener and I was busted.

When I was in college, I sewed all the leg openings of my roommates underwear together.

It was April Fools for a week!

Oh I want to out googly eyes on everything just for the fun of it. Saw a photo of eyes on a garbage can that made it look like it was shocked all the time.

I always wanted to have a room that was designed upside down. Then have a party where you know pple are going to drink themselves stupid. Put passed out person in upside down room to wake up. Lamps on tables attached to the ceiling. Ceiling fan on floor etc.

I could freak out everyone here by moving our tarantula to a new tank and then leaving the top off just a bit on her old tank...That could be funny...WH can deal with large reptiles but a loose tarantula would send him for a loop lol.

Many a night when WH was working overnights I'd go to get into bed, pull down the covers to find a huge spider toy. It never scared me because I knew it was a toy.

An unintended joke on WH happened one summer when I made a large batch of hummingbird syrup. I don't dye mine, I use red feeders. After I filled all of the feeders I put the extra into a juice container and put it in the fridge. We filter our water, put it in juice containers...See what happened? Lol. WH thought he was getting a nice cold glass of water but instead got a mouthful of hummingbird juice lol

I teach little kids, and one April fools day we snuck into the 6th grade classroom and took away their big chairs and put our itty bitty chairs in their place. Then we hid behind the classroom and after they had come back to try to sit in their chairs my little kids ran in yelling "April Fools!" It was pretty cute.

Similar to the garage door one: long ago when my kids were little we rented a car and drove to Death Valley. Our rental had automatic windows that you could control from the driver's side (you can tell I'm old when that was a novelty back then). We had all the kids convinced they were voice activated.

Another time, I dyed the milk pink. My son ate his cereal and didn't even notice, so I had to think fast. "Oh my God! Look at your milk! I think your mouth is bleeding!" He freaked out. Maybe not so nice, but my kids still remember that one clearly.