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.
My wife was headed to J.C. Penney to return a purchase. I slipped a rubber chicken into her purse. It worked.
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 practical jokes and 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 things too far.
And it’s not only just regular people getting involved in these jokes -- big organizations and corporations can 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 a hoax, 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 the BBC reporting 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 initial prank.
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.
This one is funny. I’m really not a fan of pranks, because you can unintentionally mess up someone’s schedule/day.
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 are theories about 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 others argue 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.”
Yet another theory argues that the timing of April Fools' Day is related to the vernal equinox, a time when people are fooled by sudden changes in the weather.
Maybe you have your own theory of why this day came to be. Or maybe you simply have a story about a prank you committed or fell victim to? Share it all with us in the comments! And don't forget to upvote the most interesting pranks you see on the list!
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.
Kinda reminds me of a MASH episode where it seemed all the main characters had been pranked by BJ except for Hawkeye. It's then pointed out to him that he never actually saw the pranks "in action" after he's reduced to a state of almost paranoia, waiting for BJ to prank him.
Putting googley eyes on everything.
I did this today to prank my husband! I bought 500 googley eyes and my daughter and I spent 2 hours putting them all over. Coffee pot, clocks, mugs, pictures...nothing escaped our googley eye escapade!
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 Beet
Several will be around a bush: Beet around the bush
Two have little boxing gloves: Beet boxing
Painted “b” “c” and “d” on beets: Skip “a” beet
Turnip with a name tag that says “the beet”: Turnip (turn up) the beet
Beet 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 was a nurse, and one time on nights (31st March), a colleague and myself went to the laundry, and sewed up all the sleeves of the clean doctors' white coats. We went off duty just as the fun started.
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 hours
doesn’t work now that we all have smartphones .
My best April Fool’s prank was sitting in my dorm lobby eating from a mayo jar with a spoon. When people asked wtf I was doing, I’d ask “do you want any?”
And when they said no, “Oh, you don’t like vanilla pudding? That sucks.”
They’re identical color and consistency so you literally couldn’t tell. Helps I was using a jar from an egg-free mayo so nobody could really refute a claim that that’s what it looked like. Nobody gets hurt and you get a tasty treat. Have fun!
have seen similar bits, using a clean spray bottle and blue Kool-aid... What? Windex is yummy ;)
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.
It could happen...! In 1997, Boston had an April Fools' Day snowstorm. We woke up to two feet of snow that no-one anticipated!
I have a great one. Everytime my SO came over, he always took a sip out of my water bottle ( it was a color changing one with a straw) without fail. Every single time, just grabbed the water on my bedside table and drank water without even asking how long its been there lol.
So one year for April Fools, I put a fresh cup of ice water by my bedside table but I TAPED the bottom of the straw so nothing came out. He walked into my room and tried to drink but nothing came out and he was SO confused and tried again 🤣🤣 I started laughing a bunch and he was just like wth?? I said APRIL FOOLS and explained. He thought it was so funny and said he was extra excited that day to drink cause when he grabbed the cup it was ice cold 🤣🤣🤣.
A few people in the office had to work overtime on a Saturday. I stopped on the way in to get myself a Starbucks. Then I asked them to make one for my friend - hot water with whipped cream on top. My friend was so glad to see that coffee - she immediately took a big sip - and then it registered...
My bf is a daily PC gamer so I'm gonna do the ol' Ctl + Alt + ⬇️ and flip his screens upside down.
If they use a monitor arm, flip their monitor upside-down. This way, everything looks normal, but the mouse movement is inverted.
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My greatest childhood triumph. Oldie but goody, I switched the sugar and the salt, in shakers and bowls. That's the day my dad's boss dropped in- and Mom got him coffee. He put a teaspoon of "sugar" in- and... drank it. Said nothing. Mom only found out that night, was horrified- and cracking up - for days.
In high school, I had a stuffed horse that I brought to school every day. I also had a miniature version that is never bright to school. On April fools day, I brought the smaller stuffie to school instead :)
I used to have this garbage Bluetooth speaker I got for free. I used to hide that thing in air ducts and drawers and play obnoxious music for fun.
Mu sister and I put an obnoxious ringtone on my mom's work cellphone and changed the language so thar she could not switch it back until she came home to get us to do it. Her colleagues were understanding of her situation lol
My greatest childhood triumph. Oldie but goody, I switched the sugar and the salt, in shakers and bowls. That's the day my dad's boss dropped in- and Mom got him coffee. He put a teaspoon of "sugar" in- and... drank it. Said nothing. Mom only found out that night, was horrified- and cracking up - for days.
In high school, I had a stuffed horse that I brought to school every day. I also had a miniature version that is never bright to school. On April fools day, I brought the smaller stuffie to school instead :)
I used to have this garbage Bluetooth speaker I got for free. I used to hide that thing in air ducts and drawers and play obnoxious music for fun.
Mu sister and I put an obnoxious ringtone on my mom's work cellphone and changed the language so thar she could not switch it back until she came home to get us to do it. Her colleagues were understanding of her situation lol
