How to Play April Fool's Day Pranks on Your Kids or Children

Want to play a prank on your kids this April Fool's Day? Here are a few fun, yet harmless, pranks you can use to get them good.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. 
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   Serve something very strange for breakfast. Instead of cereal or eggs, place last nights leftovers from dinner on their plate, or better yet uncooked squid you plan on making in the upcoming days and watch their reaction.

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   If you are lucky enough to have children who pour their own cereal in the morning, replace their cereal with something strange like packing peanuts, buttons, dried macaroni or anything else that will come pouring out of the box into their bowl. Really get into it and replace the cereal in all of the boxes in the cabinet so it happens no matter which cereal they try

3. Type up a phony letter on your computer and pretend that you received it in the mail saying that because the school miscalculated vacation time this year – the school year ended up being two days shorter than allowed and that they will have to go to school the entire upcoming weekend. See if you can stick with the prank long enough to have them complaining to their friends before you tell them it is an April Fool’s Joke

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   While they are in school, put all of their toys and favorite items in black garbage bags and hide them away. When they come home, tell them you were on the phone when the local charity came in and when you told them to take all of the stuff out of your bedroom, they cleaned out the wrong room and you didn’t realize it until it was too late.

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   Mix up all of their stuff. Put their toys where their clothes belong, their clothes where their toys belong. Hang a few of their toys from the ceiling and make them jump to get them.

6. Mess with their computer. Set up a banner that goes across the screen that says “Maximum usage time on this computer has been exceeded. This computer will no longer be operable” (or will no longer work - depending on their age of understanding).

7. Replace their desktop photo with a big photo of mom or dad with a caption saying “We are watching you.”

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   Take the batteries out of all the remotes for the televisions in the house. See how many times they try to get it to work or how many times they try to switch remotes before figuring it out.

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   Tie a rubber band around the sink sprayer. An oldie, but a goodie. A friend of ours got us every time he left our house. Wrap a small rubber band around the handle of the sprayer on the kitchen sink and be sure the sprayer is facing front. When your child goes to turn on the water, the sprayer will shoot the water right in their face. (Just be sure to remember you did this and don’t unthinkingly turn on the water yourself.)

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    Place a For Sale sign on the front lawn right before they get home from school. Put a couple of empty packing boxes in the first room they will see when they walk in. Sit back and wait for the horrified expressions and questions to begin.

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    Hide various alarm clocks around their room to go off very early. Set them in 10 minute intervals. This way they will have just enough time to get back in bed and get comfortable before another goes off. (Don’t do this to children who are too young however because you do not want to scare them.)