12 Hilarious Pranks For April Fool’s Day

April Fool’s Day is the perfect opportunity to have a little fun with the people in your life. If you can’t think of any harmless pranks, here are a few that are fairly easy to pull together with a few supplies from the grocery store.

Pranks For The Kids

Breakfast: Instead of eggs, put yogurt on your kids’ plates with half a canned peach or apricot as the yolk. Or, if they’re cereal eaters, put a little food coloring at the bottom of the bowl, cover it with cereal and let them pour their own milk. Have your camera secretly ready to catch that reaction!
Lunch: Put a fake bug in their lunch box or backpack. If you have an especially realistic-looking bug like the one in the picture, leave them a note reassuring them the bug is fake, and their sandwich is safe to eat…or else they might skip lunch altogether!

Dinner: Make cupcakes out of meatloaf in foil cupcake liners, then pipe mashed potatoes on top as the icing, and use veggies chopped really small as sprinkles, OR use mashed potatoes and gravy and make it look like an ice cream sundae. You can use a cherry tomato to look like a cherry, or you can even put it all in a cone. Tell the kids they get dessert for dinner!

Pranks at Work

Poke holes with a needle in the first few cups at the water cooler.
Wrap each item on someone’s desk in wrapping paper. Recruit some help and get it all done on their lunch break for extra points!

*Especially for fans of The Office: Pretend a fax came in for one of your coworkers…”from himself…from the future.”

Dear *coworker’s name*, At 8 am today, someone poisons the coffee. DO NOT drink the coffee! More instructions will follow.
Cordially,
Future *coworker’s name*

Pranks For Roommates

Put food coloring in your roommate’s toothpaste tube. Use the same color as the toothpaste for better chances of avoiding detection. *This will change the color of their teeth for 20-30 minutes, so keep that in mind*

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Fill an empty mayonnaise jar with vanilla pudding and eat it in front of your roommates with a spoon. Offer to share.
Replace the pictures in their picture frames with print-outs of cats, celebrities, or pictures of yourself.

Wedded Bliss Pranks

Bring your honey their favorite drink, but plug the end of the straw with a marshmallow. They’ll be so happy you thought of them, then annoyed about the prank, but then happy again that they have their favorite beverage! Win-win.

Put a “For Sale” sign in the front yard or on their car.
Rearrange their drawers or closet. This is even better if you start gradually with one piece of clothing, then intensify to everything being in the wrong place.