How to Become a Master April Fool's Day Prankster

April Fool's Day is a great holiday for mischievous people. You can play jokes on family, friends and co-workers with abandon. Anyone can be a prankster, and there are plenty of different jokes and pranks one could play on others. It's tough to become a master April Fool's Day prankster, however, unless you spend time developing your pranks, get other people involved and gain experience from practice.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Accomplices
• Pranks
• Notes
• Resources (depending on the prank)

1. Practice. You won't become a master prankster the first time you pull one off. Master pranksters have been developing and executing pranks for a long time. Just keep at it and eventually you'll get the hang of even the most challenging pranks.

2. Inspire new ideas by reading about other pranks at TheFoolsDay.com (see Resources below). TheFoolsDay.com and other websites devoted to April Fool's Day are terrific for learning about what pranks people have already pulled.

3. Start small. Try pranks that don't involve a lot of people, or rely on few to no resources. Replacing a fresh carton of eggs with hard-boiled eggs only requires eggs and a pot of hot water, and is a good start.

4. Graduate to more complex pranks. For example, you might want to try a prank involving everyone at your office, or everyone in your department. You could move everyone's things from one cubicle to another, you could put fake "pink slips" on their desks or you could just unplug everyone's computers so they think there's a blackout.

5. Rehearse your pranks in advance of execution. This is especially important for those pranks that involve multiple steps or need the assistance of multiple people. Rehearsing ahead of time can help identify problems with the plan and can ensure that you've worked out the kinks.

Tips & Warnings

• Gather a team together to create more elaborate pranks. Teams are often able to pull off far more interesting pranks. In this way you can become a team of master pranksters.
• Don't compromise someone's safety on your quest to become a master April Fool's Day prankster. A good prank is one that is absurd, startling and maybe even good for a scare, but no prank should every put someone in danger. Keep your pranks interesting, but keep them safe.

Resources

• Pranks and the history of April Fool's Day at TheFoolsDay.com

[AllanaBaroni]

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