... to ask for your most hilarious/previously successful April Fool’s tricks to play on your tweens/teens, doable under lockdown?

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• apart from the obvious, and probably hysteria-inducing, “Guess what, the internet’s had to be shut down today, kids!”

Also bearing in mind that popping out to get a prop or whatever probably doesn’t amount to “essential travel”.

Thanks

I am definitely telling mine that school have messaged on class dojo and they have 2 hrs of compulsory home learning that they have to wear their uniform for. I fully intend to get them up and dressed and in uniform to start lessons at 10

Cuntish behaviour

DD adores April fools and starts begging me to promise I will do something pretty much as soon as the Christmas tree is down.

I like to keep things gentle and kind. I've previously done the frozen cereal thing, and also have put gelatine in milk so her morning cup of milk is actually jelly. Once we also taped lots of toilet roll across her doorway so she had to burst out (obviously this kind of waste would now be unthinkable...) I am considering doing something like reversing the living room furniture layout or turning everything upside down in the garden.

I am definitely telling my youngest GCSEs are back on late summer. Their horror will only last minutes before they check the phone surgically attached to their hand and realise the date.

One year the dc's hid dp's car. It was really hard to act natural so we didn't give it away as he ran around like a lunatic. I was really tempted to do his hair with wash out brightly coloured hair dye when he's asleep tonight and tell him it's permanent. But he's got video meetings tomorrow and even traces of dye wouldn't go down well.

I am definitely telling my youngest GCSEs are back on late summer

More arsehole behaviour

Fucking hell, telling a teenager they've got homework to do is cuntish behaviour? You mean, while they're off school currently and don't actually have to do the work? While the worst that happens is that they get woken up earlier than usual and (gasp) put on their uniform before realising that, actually, they have sweet fuck all to be doing today?

What happens when someone actually does something bad, do you just make up new swear words?

The 'pregnant turkey' prank on youtube always makes me laugh. (You could try it with chicken and partridge/quail... should you have any lurking in the freezer).

Don’t these are stressful enough times for everyone

Kids are stressed about school enough, why would you make jokes about the situation

@formerbabe someone's sense of humour has left them...

former I'll take that as a compliment coming from someone that nearly burst into tears because their dc jumped out at them. My dc would have thought it was a particularly unconvincing April fool if I'd ever reacted like that.

Here, we have grips and a sense of humour.

We've done the cup of tea a few times ... in the morning your normal cup of tea becomes a mug with a paper capital t in it .... ' here's your cup of t.... 😊😊😊

I'm not a fan of the cling-film on the toilet type pranks, but TwoZeroTwoZero had some good ideas.

I think it may be a little late to start moving things around right now...

Probably wouldn’t work now but was funny at the time, whole team rang our manager one by one to say we were sick and couldn’t come in that day. By about the 7th call she worked it out.

Not really an April Fool but DH known for being a bit fussy and not wanting to get a drop of rain on him. Sister in law and I (his elder sister) filled DHs up ended, open umbrella with the “holes” from hole punch, did it back up tightly and waited until it rained.

He had taken it to work and opened it up in the street so we didn’t get to see the look on his face. He worked it out pretty quickly it was us and laughed along too.

There are certain ‘jokes’ I would be very careful of this year. My DC both miss school so any jokes about school returning or teachers coming to stay could spectacularly backfire. OTOH I’d love to do something gentle that makes them smile. Obviously too late to make jelly or anything but if anyone can think of a good non-upsetting verbal joke please let me know! Yesterday DD suddenly realised the date with a big smile on her face so it would be a shame to do nothing at all.

I think this year we've more to worry about. You could always tell DC's they'd dreamt about coronavirus and it's not real. That would be funny. Not.

If you have a smart tv, put 'broken screen' on YouTube and it will look like your screen has cracked

Ctrl h rotates screens to upside down. It's an old one and you could be rumbled. The old ones are sometimes the best the best though. Have fun 😊

Jokes about school and exams aren't funny right now.

It's a horribly unsettling confusing time for kids and what you're suggesting is to temporarily confuse them even more...then tell them you're joking, potentially leaving them humiliated all so you can laugh at them.

It's nasty.

I ended up cling-wrapping the iPad into a big lump. Harmless and gave her five minutes giggling while she unwrapped it.

She hasn't yet discovered I also did the TV remote.

We are slowly getting to that veg stock cube here... Just few more sips

Well I didn't realise veg stock has herbs in it and they floated to the top🙄
Remember people. Meat stock. Meat stock..

@formerbabe please do bore off elsewhere.

Get a grip former. Nobody is advocating telling dc that are missing school they can go back or anything else that would be cruel or humiliating. However I'm not alone in being better placed than you to judge what my dc did find funny.

I agree with formerbabe. Someone I vaguely know told her ds10 that school had reopened and he got ready in his uniform. He cried with disappointment when he realised it wasn’t true and he wasn’t going to see his friends and teachers. And was humiliated and trying to hide his tears. She videoed the whole thing and posted it on Facebook. It was so cruel. I’ll never see her in the same light again.

@OmgThereAreNoPlanesAboveMeNow
What did he say? Did he get you back?

@TheHarryFormerlyKnownAsPrince

That is heartbreaking...the poor child