Your Best April Fools Joke

**Nada.Leona** · 04-05-2010, 03:39 PM

Whether it was played on you, played by you, or played on someone you know, let's here the best April Fool's jokes... Especially now, since April Fools is over and we can't be targetted!

**imagine** · 04-05-2010, 03:53 PM

My friend taught a kindergarten class of mainly newly immigrated no English/limited English students.

She made the Jello dessert called Dirt in plastic cups and planted a silk flower in it. She told the kindergartners that "Today we are going to eat my favorite thing dirt and everyone has to try it" then she took a bite. The kids were grossed out. They reluctantly tried the Dirt and giggled when they found out what it really was.

The she explained the tradition of playing jokes on April Fools Day

**KeithBC** · 04-06-2010, 12:19 AM

That reminds me of a dessert that someone brought to a pot-luck dinner that looked exactly like kitty litter, complete with bits of kitty-poo. I can't remember what was in it, but it tasted fine. You had to close your eyes when eating it, though, because it was so realistic!

**MaryCarney** · 04-06-2010, 07:02 AM

My mom always made pancakes, and when she poured the batter, would coil a foot or so of clean sewing thread in the batter before flipping the pancakes over.

We also ALWAYS stuffed newspaper in the toes of everyone's shoes the night before.

**NikoSan999** · 04-06-2010, 02:33 PM

There was a customer that came in in the afternoon. His hours had been cut drastically and had like 3 kids with the youngest just 6 months old. Barely hanging on. His wife had called him that morning and told him she had taken a pregnancy test and it was positive.

He said that's great honey! He was serious but she thought he'd have a cow.

**MomsaBasketCase** · 04-06-2010, 03:30 PM

This was my best prank on my kids. I did this about 3 years ago...Andrew was 16, Jacob was almost 15 and Cayden was 13.

At the time, I had no idea that Jacob would react so emotionally...I should have known better but he forgave me. FYI, Jacob is my bi-polar/autistic/adhd child.

--Funny for me, not so funny for them

Andrew was eating breakfast, Cayden was rummaging through the laundry basket trying to find a hoodie and Jacob was laying on the floor watching TV.

I walked into the family room and promtly told Andrew and Cayden that there would be no TV when they got home from school. Their eyes got wide as they asked why.

"Dad and I talked last night and decided to cancel cable, take back the DVR's and sell the TV's. Oh, but we'll keep the smallest TV so you'll be able to watch movies."

Andrew said, "What the?" and curled up into himself on the couch, looking very cross.

Jacob sat straight up and asked, "What? Why?" and started to cry.

Cayden just looked at me like I had grown another head.

Andrew looked at me and said, "We've done our chores, I cleaned the family room yesterday! Cayden helped you clean up after supper and did the laundry!"

I started singing, "Myyyyyyyyy what a happy day!"

Cayden said, "It's not worth it, Andrew. They're going to do it whether we like it or not. We have no say as usual."

Jacob started crying even harder and then started hitting himself. Well I knew that I had to stop the joke right there so I grabbed him and came clean. Boy did he let me have it!

"I don't believe you! That's mean! Leave me alone!"

Andrew...oh if looks could kill, I'd be six feet under. Cayden, well...He just said,"Ha, ha. Very funny."

They were none too impressed with Mom that morning!

**Early Bird** · 04-08-2010, 10:31 PM

We use some of the food ideas from Family Fun magazine and website.

This year, we did the usual
meatloaf cupcakes and
jello-iced-tea
.

But I also made some fake candy wrappers to go over a real candy bar.

**Kitten20** · 04-08-2010, 11:16 PM

One year, my ex-boyfriend bought one of those fake scratchers for me. I got SOOO excited when I thought I'd won a ton of money. I was mad when he started laughing and told me the truth!

**many houseapes** · 04-08-2010, 11:36 PM

2 April Fool's jokes that come to mind....my father, while still a grade school kid in the mountains of West Virginia played a really mean joke on his teacher. He brought a piece of material w/him to school and he managed to get behind his teacher....she happened to bend over to pick something up & he took that piece of cloth, ripped it loudly (teacher thought she split out of her skirt)...& ran out of the room yelling "April Fool's!". Daddy never has told me what the teacher did to him for what he did.....he was a stinker.
Another- this time it was me pulling a fast one on the kids..a few years ago, as I graded everyone's school papers - I put "F"s on every one of them. It took awhile for a few of the Houseapes to realize it was April Fool's Day

**pollypurebred39** · 04-09-2010, 12:29 AM

My Sister ever the practical joker greased the toilet seat. In the middle of the night my Mom got up to use the bathroom, never turning on the light. I heard this blood curdling scream from my Mom that woke me from a sound sleep, followed by my Sister's giggles. Boy was my Mom ticked off!

**hestlauss** · 04-09-2010, 01:03 AM

I had an acquaintance who could not stop adjusting other peoples collars, picking lint off sweaters, etc. So I took a sewing bobbin and put it in a pocket on the front of a jacket. I threaded the string with a needle and poked it through the pocket and then took the needle off leaving a little tail of string hanging down. The look on her face when she pulled the string and it just kept going and going as it unrolled off the bobbin inside the pocket was priceless. We both laughed until we were crying. She loves to tell people the story.

**pollypurebred39** · 04-09-2010, 01:23 AM

Once while in a mall my Father bent down to pick up a half dollar lying on the floor. He kept trying to pick it up but it wouldn't budge. Over my shoulder I heard snickering, I turned to see these teenage boys sitting on the bench in absolute glee, eyes sparkling, hands covering their mouths, some were bent over from fits of suppressed laughter. They had glued the half dollar to the floor!

**MaryCarney** · 04-09-2010, 04:35 AM

My husband's dorm in college had a guy who would put Saran Wrap over the toilet bowl ,and then put the seat back down.

**Nada.Leona** · 04-09-2010, 05:31 AM

It wasn't an April Fools prank, but the best prank I ever had played on me was a Christmas prank.

On Christmas Eve, while my brother and I were getting ready for Santa, my father suddenly said, "Listen!" We stopped and listened and heard "jingle jingle jingle"! Can you imagine how excited we were?! Santa was right outside the house!

We flew to our bedrooms and hopped into bed. Dad and Mom came to tuck us in and he stood by the window in our rooms and we heard "jingle jingle jingle" again.

It wasn't til years later, after he'd passed away, that our Mom told us the truth. Dad had strung bells outside the windows of of the house and had dragged a string in through the windows. All he had to do was tug on the string and the bells would jingle!

**RImom** · 04-10-2010, 12:00 PM

My 4 year old Autistic daughter decided that she would get in the fun this year for April Fools Day. She doesn't really "get it" though. She kept saying the same thing for three days prior to practice for the big day. "Look mum there is a spider on the ceiling!". Well we got so use to her saying it, all day long on the big day that when she called out from her bed that night "Mum, there is a spider on the ceiling!!", naturally we didn't believe her and told her to go to sleep. When she kept insisting, we went into her room and sure enough, there was a spider on the ceiling! (What are the odds of that?). She got quite a kick out of it though!