Top 10 April Fools’ Day Tricks

I love April Fools’ Day. I like to play little practical jokes on my friends and coworkers, and each year they kind of expect it. The real trick is getting them when they are actually expecting something. That is the best. My tricks are not meant to harm or humiliate the victim, just to make them feel outsmarted by the master.
Here are my Top 10 Favorite April Fools’ Day Tricks that you may play on your friends.

1. Stuff paper towels or newspaper into the toes of your spouse’s or kids shoes. My cousins have been doing this one for years, and it just never gets old. Once they got me, the game was on. Perfect if your friends have you remove your shoes before entering the house. Multiple targets.

2. Depending on the mess you want to make, buy several bags of mini marshmallows and put them into one big bag, the more the better. Place the bag into the cupboard, and shut the door with the bottom of the plastic bag hanging out of the cupboard door. Slowly pull the bag out, emptying the contents into the front of the “loaded” cupboard. The next one to open the door gets a marshmallow shower.

3. In Microsoft Word, use the Autocorrect feature to “correct” a commonly used word, such as “the” by automatically inserting “April Fools’!” Just make sure you send them an e-mail explaining how to cancel this feature, with a gotcha message.

4. Get up really early and sneak into your victim’s bathroom and fill their hair-dryer with baby powder. Once they turn it on, you will hear the scream and know you got them.

5. Find a box about the size of a cake. Cover it with frosting, making it look like a cake. Then put it out in the office kitchen, or wherever people leave free food. Sit back as one of your co-workers tries to cut a slice.

6. Take a carton of eggs, and glue each egg to the bottom. Ask your victim to make you eggs for breakfast, and when they try to remove them from the carton, the eggs will break in their hands.

7. Take a rubber band, and slip it over the lever on the spray handle so when someone turns the sink on, it will spray them in the face. For bartenders, remove the plastic tip of the soda gun, and replace the soda gun into the holder. Ask the other bartender to get you a soda, and it will shoot water in 8 directions. This also never gets old. Bonus points if you can get them multiple times in the same day.

8. Great one for work if you each have a separate phone line. Go in early, and smear a little jelly or honey on the receiver end of the phone, and then call each person one by one. You will hear their reaction when the earpiece sticks to their ear. It always makes me laugh when you hear their greeting “Hello, thanks for calling…What the!”

9. The classic water cup/cup of flour above the door. You place a cup of water on the top of a slightly opened door. You must be careful to balance it without spilling. When the victim pushes open the door, they get splashed. Flour works well, if you don’t want water spilled all over.

10. This one takes a group effort, but it is well worth it.You will need a funnel, a coin, a couple of friends and, of course, a victim! Start playing the ‘funnel game’ in front of your victim. A game of skill that involves putting the funnel down the front of your pants and balancing the coin on your nose with your head tilted back. Tip your head forward to let the coin drop into the funnel. When you have the victim begging to do this put the funnel in his pants and get him to put his head back so you can balance the coin on his nose. As this is happening pour a large drink into the funnel!

I hope you find these amusing, and let me know if you have any tricks that work for you!