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Any good ideas for April fools to play on my kid?

62 replies

Merename · 31/03/2021 22:02

She is 5. I told her about April Fools the other day and she was delighted, telling me there were dragons and the like outside the window and shouting ‘TRICKED YOU’! Want to think of something that will fool her for a while over her breakfast but make her laugh when she finds out.

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ThePerfectPintOfIceColdBeer · 31/03/2021 23:18

My sister once painted the bar of soap in the shower with clear nail varnish so it wouldn't work. She managed to prank the entire household!

I remember when I was little my mum told me on April fools one year that there was a new kid going on the school bus so it needed to leave earlier, so I had to get up 5 minutes earlier to be ready in time for the bus lol.

I like a bit of harmless fun and even as a kid saw the funny side of these.

ScottishStottie · 31/03/2021 23:21

I agree with pp in that if shes excited about it, you shouldnt prank her, no matter how tame the prank is. You need to help her prsnk someone else (ie a big bee in her room) so that she gets that enjoyment out of it. I dont like pranks at all and think that the only enjoyment you get is if you are in om it.

MerylStropp · 31/03/2021 23:41

One of my lot once threaded an entire packet of Weetos onto a long piece of string and put them back in the box... how we laughed! Hmm

HmmmmmmInteresting · 31/03/2021 23:50

@WeAllHaveWings

Get her to draw a big B and run tell her dad there is a big bee in her bedroom
Best idea on the thread!
TiggerTiggerBounce · 01/04/2021 07:34

One year my son came running to tell me there were 3 holes in his school jumper - he had already ripped his other one so it’s the only one he had at the time. Turned out it was his head and arm holes :)

UhtredRagnarson · 01/04/2021 07:37

@MerylStropp

One of my lot once threaded an entire packet of Weetos onto a long piece of string and put them back in the box... how we laughed! Hmm
😂
Petalpup · 01/04/2021 08:33

I did the big b one with ds this morning and then we did it to dh which he loved!

SilkyMoonfaceandTheSaucepanMan · 01/04/2021 08:34

Here for the idea Smile

@GojiberryStar - my neighbour did that last year, wonder if it's the same video that you saw?

MargaretThursday · 01/04/2021 08:40

@GojiberryStar

Lovely your child is delighted OP

I'm a total misery I know but I just cannot get parents trying to humiliate their kids with pranks.

It's ok when everyone is laughing but it's usually not.

I know, I know I'm miserable !

. No, not miserable. I agree.

I've a friend who normally plays a truck on her dc and it's something along the lines of telling them the FA has decided that the balls are too hard and they're only going to be playing with sponge balls. Their dc get indignant over breakfast, then she tells them, and then they find it funny.

On my fb this morning I've got a couple of ones which have told their dc that they have to wear something silly to school. Kids are upper end of primary, so not too small to be really bothered.
One's even put "he'll be known as the kid who wore xxxx for the rest of school"
The kid might find it funny, but they may be upset and feel humiliated in front if their friends. I can't think of any children who would think that funny and a good number who would be really upset.
That isn't funny. It's mean.

ISpeakJive · 01/04/2021 08:45

One year my sister told my brother in a very frightened and shit scared way that there was a naked man in the garden!!
I've never seen my brother so shocked and run so fast.

00100001 · 01/04/2021 08:48

@GojiberryStar

There's a difference between humiliating a child and swapping their juicd for jelly at breakfast.. I can't see how a kid would be humiliated by that? It's the same level of "prank" as Elf on the Shelf. (Which I think is worse, the weird elf spying on you).

It's not like we're suggesting you tell your kids that they have to walk the streets starkers pretending to be a chicken...

ThisBear · 01/04/2021 08:56

We have a long-running one where we swap real items for play and dolls house ones, like we set the table for breakfast with tiny teacups and so on. It's so silly that nobody minds!

PivotPivotPivottt · 01/04/2021 08:57

I forgot all about April Fool's or I would have done something for my 9 year old she loves a prank.

Agree about the ones that humiliate the children Sad

I saw a couple of videos similar to the one mentioned by a PP last year. One parent woke their child up telling them Boris has cancelled lockdown, coronavirus has disappeared and they had to go to school. The children were so excited Sad. Another one actually walked her child to the school in full uniform, he must have been about 5 or 6 he was so excited running along to the school gates only for them to be locked and the playground empty. The mum thought it was hilarious laughing while filming. Both of these were viral videos it wasn't anyone I knew. We were only a couple of weeks into lockdown then and I remember how much I was struggling with how strange everything was and my daughter was too. She just wanted normal life back and to return to school I could never in a million years imagine doing that to her.

Anyway... its bad luck to do an April fool after 12 isn't it? I might try and get her somehow she doesn't know that Wink.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 01/04/2021 09:03

Humiliating people is never funny.

Asking someone to Mr C. Lyon on (zoo phone number) or Miss G. Race or similar was a popular one when I was young at my parents work!

Petalpup · 01/04/2021 09:05

The ‘lockdown is over’ ones sound awful. My children would not have found that funny at all.
Not an April fool really but every time we have boiled eggs we always turn the empty ones upside down and say ‘I don’t want this egg does anyone want an extra one?’ And then the recipient makes a big show of being disappointed when they crack it open.
We can do this multiple times in a sitting and it still makes us laugh! Very occasionally someone will forget and be genuinely fooled.

crossstitchingnana · 01/04/2021 09:11

@Bunnybigears

My Dad used to wake us up at about 3am change all the clocks etc and tell us it was time to get up. It would be sometime after getting dressed and eating breakfast etc he would tell us it was still only about 4am.
🤣🤣😂😂🤣
SpinningBob · 01/04/2021 09:12

I stuck googly eyes on all the photos in the house last night-they found that hilarious this morning after they figured it out! Kids are 9 and 6

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Merename · 01/04/2021 09:26

Thanks for all the ideas! So I did food colouring in the porridge and water. They were delighted and thought it was amazing that the porridge in the bowls was pink but not the remainder in the pot. We were discussing April fools tricks she could play at school and the whole thing went over her head!! After a while I asked if she thought she’d been tricked and she still couldn’t get it, then when I told her she said she didn’t like being tricked! So some of you have a point clearly. Don’t think I scarred her for life but I’m glad I told her before she went off to school talking about her magic pink porridge Grin

Any good ideas for April fools to play on my kid?
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QuattroFormaggi · 01/04/2021 10:00

I just got my DS with the Big Bee prank...made out I was scared and he needed to go and shoo the bee out of my room. Sat and waited for him to get out of bed, put PJs on and walk slowly to my room. Heard him go in, walk to window, mutter that there's no bee in here. Then turn around and see the B on the bed. And then "oh Mum...!"

He's 19 GrinGrinGrin and I haven't laughed so hard in months. Thank you

MojoJojo71 · 01/04/2021 10:26

8 yo DD loves April fools day so expects me to prank her.

I put some water and a spoon in a cereal bowl and put in the freezer overnight then this morning covered the ice in a layer of cereal and milk so when she went to eat it she couldn’t get the spoon out.

I also pretended I had drawn in her face while she was asleep and cried ‘April fool’ when she looked in the mirror.

So far she has sellotaped the toilet and put salt in my tea! She’s in the kitchen working on something else at the moment, roll on 12 o’clock!

MojoJojo71 · 01/04/2021 10:28

It was a kitchen sponge made to look like cake with ketchup and sprinkles on it. 🤢

AdHominemNonSequitur · 01/04/2021 10:37

My DH did a bonus late Easter egg hunt last year, with no eggs in the garden. When they couldn't find them he said he had made it hard because they were older this year. Mean!

GojiberryStar · 01/04/2021 11:14

[quote 00100001]@GojiberryStar

There's a difference between humiliating a child and swapping their juicd for jelly at breakfast.. I can't see how a kid would be humiliated by that? It's the same level of "prank" as Elf on the Shelf. (Which I think is worse, the weird elf spying on you).

It's not like we're suggesting you tell your kids that they have to walk the streets starkers pretending to be a chicken...[/quote]
@00100001

I didn't say it was the same HmmHmmHmm

I specifically said it was a "tame and lovely joke" at 22.39

FireBelliedToad · 01/04/2021 12:22

Thank you for this one Get her to draw a big B and run tell her dad there is a big bee in her bedroom
DD carried it out to perfection. Enough worry in her voice to get DH to drop his breakfast back on his plate, grab some paper and run to her Grin

UhtredRagnarson · 01/04/2021 12:31

I did the big B one on DS11. Rolled his eyes. I took it as appreciation for the effort Grin