Anyone know any not too evil April Fool's pranks?

[BlackCatSleeping]

I was going to bake a chocolate cake and cover it with fake plastic flies.

Another idea is to add a few drops of green food coloring to the milk carton.

Anyone got any other fun pranks I can play on the kids without upsetting anyone too much?

My mother used to hide a cotton reel in a pocket in a contrasting cour to what she was wearing and thread it through so that it looked like she had a stray four or five inch piece of cotton on her clothing.

I would go to pick it off and as I pulled it, more and more came out as it got longer and longer from the reel!

Cour means colour

We had ‘oh no! There’s a huge leek in the kitchen’ queue rushing in expecting a very large puddle, but actually seeing a giant vegetable

Empty a cupboard out and fill with balloons and ask child to get something out of cupboards and all the balloons spill out.

These are great. Thank you! I might try the balloon trick with the fridge.

One I’ve been meaning to do is freeze a bowl of cereal and milk with a spoon in it! Cling film over a glass is good too (pull tight and trim the edges so it’s invisible).

I have placed a leek under my Mums sink, she panicked that there was water spilling from pipes.

I have given my children a brown E letter instead of chocolate treats.

This year my child has requested mandarins for a prank, I don't know what they are for.

Maybe do this in the garden but make ice cubes with a mentos sweet inside and then give to (older) child in a fizzy drink or your own drink of coke and watch it swoosh when the ice melts.

There's a massive bee in the house! (Huge cut out letter B stuck on the wall). My kids liked that one. And googly eyes on everything - pictures, fruit etc - is fun.

Make toffee apples using onions.

Fairy cakes with a Brussels sprout or pocket of chilli powder in

Some good ideas on here! I've had good success with just swapping over the bags of breakfast cereal inside the boxes and then watching DDs confused faces

DH put unplugged my mouse last year from my computer

Kids love comedy pranks. Leek (vegetable) in bathroom, (computer) mouse in the house, B in the lounge (giant letter) Mine laughed for ages about the leek.

We did the "there's a giant B upstairs" one last year.

This year I'm planning to cover the dc's bedroom door in newspaper they have to burst through to get out.

Me and Ds have already planned the Nutella in pants on the breakfast table that we're going to play on Dh tomorrow morning....!!

This year I'm planning to cover the dc's bedroom door in newspaper they have to burst through to get out

I love this idea! Totally going to do it!

What’s the nutella in pants one?
I did the leek one last year, I was so pleased with myself

I used Brown paper, cut into the shape of the letter 'E' put into a pan and tell the kids I've made them some Brownies!

DH is more gross and ate peanut butter out a clean happy pretending he was eating baby poo - this made DS1 vomit.

Rick we are going to put some Nutella in some of Ds's pants and leave them scattered around for Dh to find.

Disclaimer: Ds is 6 therefore poo humour is about as sophisticated as it gets!!

oooh I like it

I put blue colouring into my sons milk. I told him it was blue whale milk, new from Coop. He was v interested, drank it and said there was no difference.

Sticking with the poo theme, how about a cat litter tray cake? (Google it.)

Blow an egg...
Place in egg cup. With toast .
Orange jelly Instead of juice.

Just painted the shower head with green food dye this end in readiness for DH's shower in the morning.