Hit me with your best April Fool's shenanigans

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My DD is going to look out the window at school and convince everyone it's snowing....

Yes, it's called an April Fool

Year ago there was a storm on March 31st. The next day DH said he heard all sorts of things falling over in the night. I casually mentioned that Derdull Door had come down in the wind. DH lamented at what a loss that was.

A year are and a half later his parents came to stay and suggested we went to visit it, DH said that it jsut wont be the same now it is in ruins...this sent shockeaves through his very pro heritage parents. 'What on earth had happened to such a beautiful spot?!? Etc. Then DH saw my grin 😁

I’m not into pranks as a rule, but I really like that one!

I remember my dad balancing tins of hairspray and deodorant and air freshener behind the bathroom door so that they all clattered to the floor when the first person went in. He was usually a curmudgeonly old so and so, but he had his moments.

At school there was the usual sort of thing - half the class hiding in the store room (all our classrooms had them for books etc.) One of the teachers marched straight into the room, rolled her eyes, and left them in there for the duration of the lesson, giggling and snorting away. One year a few of the girls climbed out the window and crouched down, then all started to peer in when they realised they were being ignored. It was all very childish and I’m sure the teachers were fed up. My friend told me by text that she was pregnant at 49, but the wording just didn’t sound like her usual texts, so I knew immediately she was arsing about. She actually tried it again the following year. The menopause can make you very forgetful. Not me though🤣

In the spirit of this thread I’ve just thrown a spring onion in the downstairs bathroom and called my 9 year old over in panic and asked him about the leak and why he didn’t notice. Took him a moment for the penny to drop. He loved the April fool.

We’ve done quite a few over the years. Apart from the ‘leek-ing’ bathroom one. Once when the kids were about 3 and 6 we turned the dining table over before we went to bed and once the kids were asleep. The next morning (1 April) we all came down for breakfast and acted all nonchalant and like nothing was wrong. The kids were so funny trying to persuade us it was the wrong way round. I even balanced their plastic plates with toast on top of the table legs and said get on with breakfast, what are you on about.

I did similar with my son around that age, but with a bowl of cereal (spoon and all) so when he picked the spoon up the whole lot came up like an ice lolly 😁

Last year just gone midnight as we were settling down to sleep ( owls not larks !) , my husband said . Don’t move , there is a big spider just above your head and then proceeded to touch my hair at the top of my head very gently . I squealed and froze at the same time . Then came the “April Fool!”

I told my DH that I’d seen the longer term weather forecast and there was another ‘beast from the East’ on the way. A huge wall of snow. He nearly believed me. 🤣

We did the leek in the bathroom one. We were having the bathroom done at the time. The kids had never seen their dad move so fast 🤣🤣
I cut some 'E's out of brown (greaseproof) paper once, and l covered the dish with tinfoil, left a note saying "I've made you some brownies xx" my son did see the funny side, but was so disappointed they weren't real, we had to bake some 😁

A few years ago, DS planted a rubber egg in the egg box, and watched me dementedly trying to crack it on the side of the frying pan. It honestly looked and felt real, until it bounced... it made his day.

Dc will tell daddy water is running out of the dishwasher and he’ll walk in to see trainers in front of the dishwasher with water filled cups in them.

Ah, got it🤣🤣🤣 I like that one.

I told DD that there was a huge black cat on the driveway, could almost be a panther. He’s never shot out of bed so fast.

i like the dishwasher one.

DH got his class cutting grass on the school field with scissors because the caretaker’s lawnmower had broken.

Dh took it to another level. He dipped a brussel sprout in chocolate and made ‘cake pops’. I can’t wait till the kids dig in later 😂😂

Ds put a sticker on Dh laptop - the one that looks like a cracked screen.

waiting for all this to kick off later 😂

Ooh excellent idea. Or should I say eggcellent. Let us know how it went.

Back in the olden days... we had a payphone on the ground floor of our office building. Our company was on the first floor. All directors were away on business and VERY SELF-IMPORTANT PA to the CEO was in charge.

We all met down stairs and started calling in sick, one by one. She was in a flat panic by the 10th phone call. We then all strode in together 1 minute after starting time and shouted 'April Fools'. She was not impressed, but had concede it was funny when one of the directors also phoned her and pretended to be off sick.

@ilovepixie

It went down a treat, DH played along beautifully, after a first, confused glance!

I played a trick on myself this morning this morning when I told my 4 year old son that it was April fools day and what that means. He has been ‘pranking’ me every five minutes since. This involves typical monkey business such as putting his shoes on the wrong feet, repeating everything I am saying, pretending he is asleep.

Sounds exhausting. Did you explain to him it’s supposed to finish at midday?

That sounds lovely. I miss the days when mine were that young. If he is anything like mine, he will carry it on for a few days

Dds teacher sent them all this, dd fell for it too. Tbf, she also fell for a giant tunnocks teacake easter egg post too. She can be a bit daft sometimes.

And there was me thinking teachers were busy.,,

Years ago, at work, an entire team once pretended to call in sick in the morning of 1 April; they were all sitting in the canteen! Their manager was tearing his hair out as call after call came in for him. They all came in at the last minute. Their manager was a good sport and found it hilarious.

Love that one!