April Fools Pranks

[Juliegirl1]

Ok it's almost that time of year - April 1st! Here's a few April Fools pranks I've done in the past:

Kool Aid Powder in the shower faucet, rubber banding the sink sprayer, saran wrap the toilets, confetti on the ceiling fan, sugar in the salt and vice versa but the best was the year I short sheeted the bed and got in on top of the covers but below the bedspread and wink winked at my husband to get into bed for some hanky panky - boy the look on his face when he couldn't get into bed was priceless!

So let me know what have been your most successful April Fools Pranks? I need some good ideas.

 

[kimblebee]

I can't contribute but I am very interested in this thread. I need some good ideas to pull on my daughter.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I faked winning the lottery and being so excited I ripped up the winning ticket and threw it up in the air once. It wasn't on the first, but close enough.

 

[PigletsPal2]

I put a plain sheet of paper between the computer screen and the glare screen in front of it so when my co-workers turned on their computers, they had a blank "screen." The systems administrator was in on the joke, fortunately for me!

Queen Colleen

 

[ChristmasElf]

Reset all the clocks in the house 3 full hours ahead. We were staying at a hotel, so everyone got up, showwred, dressed and ready to go down to breakfast-but not before figuring out it was only 4 am!

 

[lovesmurfs]

I once switched the kids' cereal with the grownups in the box -- it was a double get-em between the kids and my DH.

In college, we once filled a professor's office waist-high with balloons. There were balloons floating around the building for days!

 

[Albort]

I put a plain sheet of paper between the computer screen and the glare screen in front of it so when my co-workers turned on their computers, they had a blank "screen." The systems administrator was in on the joke, fortunately for me!

Queen Colleen

The computer i was using recently got a new monitor... i happen to be alone in the office so for my wallpaper, i had the broken monitor picture on it. I locked it, and dragged the box that says its locked off screen. Everyone who came in and saw it was like WHAT THE HECK DID U DO!!! i lol and unlocked the screen and they just laughed.

We have this thing about locking computers, if we dont, we get access to all your emails and such. Since i dont like to do embarrassing emails, i took a print screen of the desktop, insert that as the wallpaper and moved all the icons off screen. He kept clicking on his my computers icon but it wouldnt open.

 

[elizke]

Having a family party on Sunday at my house for DS who's bday is April 1st,
and he is turning 16 this year.

I'd LOVE some ideas for something to pull at the party or something 16 related!!!

(He is not getting a license until next year so nothing driving related.)

 

[Albort]

Having a family party on Sunday at my house for DS who's bday is April 1st,
and he is turning 16 this year.

I'd LOVE some ideas for something to pull at the party or something 16 related!!!

(He is not getting a license until next year so nothing driving related.)

do the box in a box. get a bunch of boxes and stick them in each other. get him a gift card and stick that somewhere on top most box but hidden. When he finally gets to the very last box only to discover there is nothing in it and then u just point out that the gift is on the very top box!

 

[elizke]

do the box in a box. get a bunch of boxes and stick them in each other. get him a gift card and stick that somewhere on top most box but hidden. When he finally gets to the very last box only to discover there is nothing in it and then u just point out that the gift is on the very top box!

Yah! I should do this. We are getting him a good bike, so I could just do a picture of the bike, or even just a clue as to where to look for the next clue, etc.....

If I can possible come up with that many, I should use 16 boxes.

 

[Albort]

Yah! I should do this. We are getting him a good bike, so I could just do a picture of the bike, or even just a clue as to where to look for the next clue, etc.....

If I can possible come up with that many, I should use 16 boxes.

make sure u use extra duct tape to make it hard to get to the last box!

 

[shmoogrrrl]

My husband proposed to me in February of 1999, and when I checked my church for a date in 2000, I noticed that April 1st was available. I tried to talk him into getting married on April 1st of 1999 at a JOP, then having our 'Wedding' in 2000. When people got to our reception, there would be a big sign saying, APRIL FOOLS! Welcome to our 1st anniversary party!"

Yeah, he wasn't amused. Neither was my Mom when I floated the idea by her. Ahhh well.

 

[kaytieeldr]

This would have worked better if we brought my boss in on it (so he'd have known to play along ):

We get a monthly calendar of what's going on. Despite that, one of my co-workers showed up on Martin Luther King Day 2011, and started working (until he realized nobody else was in, the system didn't update...). Anyway, he wasn't working when the April calendar was sent out. I edited it and printed out a few copies - for him and the people around him, who were in on the joke. I added SALES DEPARTMENT ONLY HOLIDAY to the April 1 block.

It would have worked, too, except he went to our boss and asked if he could have Saturday off, too, for a long weekend.

I really hate that April Fool's Day falls on a Sunday this year. I hope I win Mega Millions so I can call my brothers Sunday and tell them I won

 

[mrodgers]

Not my idea, it was a coworker.

We had a girl who occupied the middle office right next to mine. I hear someone laughing in her office. I peeked around the corner and he was on her computer. He was in her email (which she always left open) and was setting her first name in the autocorrect dictionary to autocorrect to "butthead".

Problem was, she never used her name in email. She always signed emails with initial and last name. 6 months went by and I hear her laughing hysterically. I hear her exclaiming, "Why is it doing this!" It took me a minute, but finally remembered and realized what was happening. I poke my head around the corner and there she is typing her name and it is correcting it to "butthead".


Of course, to get back at him, she had to set him up. We work at a foam bead factory, basically manufacturing a material that is like styrofoam beads before they are molded into a product. I catch her with a box of foam bead and she is carefully balancing the box on top of his door so it would fall when he opened it. Would have worked out great, but as soon as she finishes setting it up and goes back into her office, I hear a commotion and she is laughing hysterically again. I ask, "You didn't just print something, did you?" His office contained the printer. She just set it up, then immediately printed something and walked out and through his door to get it off the printer.

 

[lovesmurfs]

I forgot I once made my DS's desktop go upside down -- I think he got the patch to make it stop, but if you hit ctrl-alt-down arrow at the time, it makes the desktop go upside down (or if you use the side arrow, it goes on the side). Ctrl-Alt-Up arrow fixes it.

Still works on my computer...a great prank, though!

 

[kaytieeldr]

I forgot I once made my DS's desktop go upside down -- I think he got the patch to make it stop, but if you hit ctrl-alt-down arrow at the time, it makes the desktop go upside down (or if you use the side arrow, it goes on the side). Ctrl-Alt-Up arrow fixes it.

Still works on my computer...a great prank, though!

Oh! The guy I pranked did that to me, and nobody in the office at the time could figure out how to fix it. I can read upside down (ha! can't fool me for long) but it slowed me down.

I turned my monitor upside down until the supervisor who knew that CTRL+ALT+ trick got back.

Nope. Can't fool me. Too long, anyway .

 

[htmom]

Family Fun has some great ideas! Last year I printed out the dounut seed packet and filled it with cheerios. My son was convinced that by the time he got home he could plant the donut seeds. I also put baby carrots in his cheese curl bag. I have put just bread with nothing in between in his lunch too.

 

[crazyme5kids]

Yah! I should do this. We are getting him a good bike, so I could just do a picture of the bike, or even just a clue as to where to look for the next clue, etc.....

If I can possible come up with that many, I should use 16 boxes.

Too bad you can't find a real old beat up rusty bike, "I know it isn't exactly the one you wanted, but money is a little tight right now......"

My daughter was born 5 weeks early, on April Fools day. Boy did it take a long time to convince people we were telling the truth. My nephew was born a week late on April 1st.

 

[mrodgers]

The monitor upside down is a function of the monitor used. Not every computer can do that. The monitor has to be able to be viewed in portrait orientation as that is what the function is for.

 

[kldmom2000]

I've done some pretty gross ones in the past to my girls.... Here's one:

One year I made brownies... took a brownie and formed it in the shape of a kitty poo and left it on the steps (we have 3 cats)... My then 7 year old DD came home from school and freaked that the cat had pooped on the steps. I went down with a napkin, scooped it up, sniffed it, and then bit it OMG-she almost gagged right there.. I of course came clean and told her it was a brownie.... They then did it to DH when he came home from work....