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April Fools Day Pranks

Practical jokes should be fun for everyone 
and should never cause anyone discomfort, sadness, or grief.

• The Half Penny
  Veronica from PA
  Buy cutco sisor (because they cut though pennies) and cut a penny in half. Put one half of the penny sticking up and keep the other half. Then see how many people try to pick it up! HAVE FUN!!!!
• Messy Surprise
  Coolio from CR
  directions=While your victim is asleep, sneak into his/her room with a) a bowl of whipped cream and b) a bowl of cold water, and c) a feather, and d) with hope that the victim is a heavy sleeper. Carefully, slip the cold water in a corner or on a nightstand or desk. Carefully and quietly slip his or her hand into the bowl. Next, scoop some whipped cream onto your victim's hand. Carefully, tickle the victim's nose with the feather. Hope for the right hand, and when they wake up in the morning, the victim will have wet the bed and have whipped cream on their face and possibly hair. If you do not have any whipped cream available, use shaving cream or toothpaste. BE CAREFUL AND HAVE FUN!!
• Morning Cereal
  Justin in Eau Claire, WI
  Put some water in a cereal bowl, and place it in the freezer so that the water freezes. Offer to make your sister/brother cereal in the morning. Make sure you use that same bowl. Put their favorite cereal over the top of the ice, and serve.
• Mouse Trap
  Peaches from Roanoke, VA
  Before everyone gets to work on April 1, go into the office and one-by-one, put a piece of tape across the bottom of the mouse covering the ball.  When everyone comes to work and tries to use computer, their mouse won't work.

• My talk'n Pal
  Alexis Brasure, Elkton, Maryland
  This ones for all you pet owners! First, put a walky talky some wear near the area of where your pet is laying. Go into another room with the other walky talky. Then, when your brother/sister goes to pet your furry friend, say something like..."Hey Pal! Get your grimy hands off me!" They'll get a kick outta this one!!! But don't tell Dr. Dolittle! Ha, Ha!

• No coffee
  Jim from Cleveland, Ohio
  Take an empty coffee mix can and replace it with a can with coffee mix in it. (Make sure coffee cans are the same brand, or it will not work.) At the bottom of the can put a piece of paper that says April Fools. Make sure you help the person with making their coffee to see their reaction.

• Old Person
  Melanie from Texas
  Get up really early and sneak into your victims bathroom and fill their hair-dryer with baby powder. And when they turn it on, their head will be pure white. Just like an old person! HAVE FUN!

• Phone Call
  Joe from Pennsylvania
  Put some gooey substance such as liquid soap on the side of a telephone (the part that cannot be seen.) Then when the victim walks by, call you own house from another room. They will pick up the phone getting soap all over there hand. Yuck! Enjoy!
• Room "TP"ing
  Scruffy in Minnesota
  If you want to TP your brother or sister's room you have to get them out of it first. Then grab some toilet paper and begin! You MIGHT need some tape if you are really 'going to go to town' "TPing." After that, (if your parents know that you are "TPing" [and they should]) get them to say something to your brother or sister for an example: “Put your clothes away” and then they will be forced to go into the messy room! HAVE FUN WITH IT!
• Synchronization
  Amine Mazine from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  Arrange with all your classmates in advance to perform particular actions together at the same time (e.g. 15 minutes after each class begins). The actions could include: dropping pencils and saying oops!, bending down to tie shoe laces, saying "Teacher - I don't understand!" We are not responsible for any detentions given on account of these actions.
• Shower Head Surprise
  Turn the shower head (where the water comes out) towards the direction where you enter the tub then when someone turns on the shower they get sprayed by themselves turning on the water.
• Shower Time
  Stevie who resides in Sydney.
  Take the towel and cover with chalk powder. Hang on bath rack where someone is sure to use it after emerging from the shower. "Who ever uses the towel after they've had a bath/shower will be covered in mucky coloured chalk goo. To ensure success, remove all other towels from the bathroom so victim will have no option but to use the trick towel. But leave hand towels in bathroom so no one uses the trick towel for wiping their hands. (Thus catching you out and ruining prank.)"
• Sink Surprise
  Unanimous
  Take a rubber band and slip it over the lever on the spray handle so that when someone turns the sink on, it will spray him or her in the face. This is an easy way to pull a great prank!
• Slippery Seat
  Samantha
  Smear toilet seat with baby oil. When someone goes into the bathroom, try not to look suspicious that you did something, when your victim sits down, they will freak out, because they are sliding everywhere when they try to use the bathroom!  Trust me I know I did it on my grandpa before, and it was hilarious!!
• Soaked
  Josh from New Hampshire
  Get a flute and put water in it.  Go to a friend and play music; splat.  He will be soaked.  Caution: you might get chased down the street! He will be ok later.
• Soured Milk
  Georgia Danikas from Park View Hills, Toronto
  Just before your brother or sister come down to eat some cereal put some food colouring in the milk. You can put any kind that you want. I like yellow or beige (a mix with brown and yellow) because it looks like rotten milk. This trick really works watch your siblings go in total shock when they pour the milk into the cereal.
• Spill Time
  Kirsten from Denver Colorado
  Take a plastic disposable cup and make a hole in the very top right below the edge.  Ask the victim if you can get them something to drink.  If they say yes take the cup with the hole in it and fill it with the drink of their choice.  Hand it to them in a way where they will drink with the hole facing them.  The drink will spill all down the front of them.  Be careful that the drink is not a very bright color because it WILL stain.
• The Thread
  Zoe in Illinois
  When I was in high school, our Home Ec. teacher pulled this prank on us. She wore a black blouse with a breast pocket. In the pocket she had a spool of white thread. She used a needle to pull the thread through her back shoulder, where the end of the white thread lay on her dark blouse. When we saw this white thread laying on her shoulder, we were obliged to take it off and throw it away... except when we picked it up, it kept getting longer and longer! The April Fool was on us!
• Test Scores (for teachers)
  Tia McMahon from Lebanon Ohio
  Tell your kids that you just got the test scores from the proficiency tests and then go down stairs and say to your kids your going to go and make copies and then come running / walking and make your face look like you just saw a ghost and say to your kids that whatever your principals name is just spilled coffee on the proficiency tests and the will have to take it again.  Trust me it will work.

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