April Fools with your kids

[madringal]

My daughter totally got me this morning.  She told me it was snowing out and I believed her, well because it snowed last week! 

But I got her back.  While we were eating breakfast, I told her I got an email from her principal that since so many kids wanted to have another spring break they were cancelling school for the rest of the week.  Her face got all excited.  I almost felt bad about telling her April Fools, but hey! She made me think it was snowing!

Anyone else have any little pranks with their kids?

[cinderbella]

We didn't do any pranks but we did buy these April Fool's cupcakes for the girls - the middle one is called 'unicorn poop' and the others look like other foods. It's also my dad's birthday so we are using these instead of a birthday cake for him. I can't wait to see their reactions!

[rosiebear]

I do every year. We also used to do stuff like pizza for breakfast and cornflakes for dinner. Just goofy stuff.

One year I told them that it had snowed heavily, and that the plows broke, so all the kids had to go in to help shovel out the school. When they were little, I drew moustaches on them as they slept, so that they'd wake up and laugh and point at each other.

Last year was chocolate-covered cherry tomatoes. This year, I switched all their clothes in their dressers as they slept. They are still sleeping in and haven't discovered it yet, lol.

[pantsparty]

I told them I'm not their real mom.

They didn't seem to think it was funny? IDK.

[laurack]

yes my almost 3 year old told me she peed in her pants, then it turned out she didn't. She laughed

so then I told HER that she'd never see ANY of her friends ever again, and I was throwing out the TV and ipad and all her toys. She cried for hours. it was HILARIOUS






No, I didn't.

I hate april fools day.

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

I was going to set all the clocks ahead, and then yell OH NO WE OVERSLEPT, and they would rush around and get to school, and SURPRISE, you're actually 45 min early, now you get a school breakfast (K LIVES for school breakfast, I use it as a behavioral reward. Weirdo).

But then it snowed and there was a 2-hour delay.

Mother Nature got me.

[scarletbandit]

I served frozen pancakes with pb this morning. The look on my son's face was priceless when he realized they weren't cooked yet. I did have another plate of cooked ones to give him.

[ninjabridemom]

We don't "do" april fool's.

When the boys are old enough to learn bad jokes from their friends, then we might.

The most we do right now is Boo each other (jump out and say boo) and that's pretty much a daily activity in our house lol.

[madringal]

Apr 1, 2015 9:02:19 GMT -5 rosiebear said:

I do every year. We also used to do stuff like pizza for breakfast and cornflakes for dinner. Just goofy stuff.

One year I told them that it had snowed heavily, and that the plows broke, so all the kids had to go in to help shovel out the school. When they were little, I drew moustaches on them as they slept, so that they'd wake up and laugh and point at each other.

Last year was chocolate-covered cherry tomatoes. This year, I switched all their clothes in their dressers as they slept. They are still sleeping in and haven't discovered it yet, lol.

Oh man, the moustaches is a good one! I did see a really cute idea on IG where someone made "cupcakes" for dinner but it was really meatloaf with colored mashed potatoes "frosting".  If the thought of pink mashed potoates didn't gross me out, I might try it.

[wambam]

I was a sophomore in college in Different Equations and my Swedish professor, Dr. Eigenborg walked into the classroom wearing nose glasses. He then proceeded to give us a quiz with the most ridiculous messed up questions I've ever seen, that had nothing to do with DiffEq

[yentl]

No kids, but I try to prank H. Last year I took a screen shot of the desktop and set it as our background, then hid the dock and folders so he couldn't click on anything.

The problem is I have a terrible poker face. He clicked around for about 5 seconds before I started laughing hysterically.

[wambam]

I was a sophomore in college in Different Equations and my professor, Dr. Eigenborg walked into the classroom wearing nose glasses. He then proceeded to give us a quiz with the most ridiculous messed up questions I've ever seen, that had nothing to do with DiffEq. He threw chalk, jumped on desks, and walked out 15 minutes early.

And that's my non-kid-related AF story.

[lostlenore]

DS2 likes to prank me by waking up early, getting dressed, and then getting back in bed under the covers. Then I come in and start telling him to get out of bed. He loves to pull back the covers and jump up, fully dressed, and say "pranked you!" So he did that this morning. 

[Ohhmm(bligo)]

Apr 1, 2015 9:24:41 GMT -5 yentl said:

No kids, but I try to prank H. Last year I took a screen shot of the desktop and set it as our background, then hid the dock and folders so he couldn't click on anything.

The problem is I have a terrible poker face. He clicked around for about 5 seconds before I started laughing hysterically.

H and his cws were obsessed with finding new ways to RickRoll each other (each other's VMs (both calling and setting), backgrounds/screen savers, etc), and I was tired of hearing about it.  

So I stole his phone and set it as his ringtone.

I called him at work when I knew he was around his cws, and he acted completely normal.  I was really disappointed, until that night when we were at Subway with the kids and his phone went off.

He was confused, then I saw the light physically go on, then he got more confused, then he was freaking out because everyone heard it, then he ran outside.  Turns out, his phone had been on silent at work.  Getting to see it in person more than made up for his cws missing it.

[papie]

Apr 1, 2015 9:25:23 GMT -5 wambam said:

I was a sophomore in college in Different Equations and my professor, Dr. Eigenborg walked into the classroom wearing nose glasses. He then proceeded to give us a quiz with the most ridiculous messed up questions I've ever seen, that had nothing to do with DiffEq. He threw chalk, jumped on desks, and walked out 15 minutes early.

And that's my non-kid-related AF story.

Maybe I should start jumping around.  I am in class right now.  lol 

(they are working on a case and I am pretending to work)

[Captain Serious]

I replaced the ketchup in the bottle with Jello this morning. I can't wait for J to find it. He uses ketchup on everything, and had been dying for April Fool's Day since he learned of it last year at school.

Then I decided to pour the rest of the Jello into a couple of stemless wine glasses so the kids could have it as dessert. It looked remarkably like wine, so I'm going to serve it to my husband tonight for kicks.

I added food coloring to try to make it look more like ketchup, but it got a bit dark. Still, I think it might be good for a quick laugh.

[madringal]

Apr 1, 2015 9:47:01 GMT -5 Captain Serious said:

I replaced the ketchup in the bottle with Jello this morning. I can't wait for J to find it. He uses ketchup on everything, and had been dying for April Fool's Day since he learned of it last year at school.

Then I decided to pour the rest of the Jello into a couple of stemless wine glasses so the kids could have it as dessert. It looked remarkably like wine, so I'm going to serve it to my husband tonight for kicks.

I added food coloring to try to make it look more like ketchup, but it got a bit dark. Still, I think it might be good for a quick laugh.

Love this idea!

[4speedy]

DD has been planning a joke with her classmates for the new computer teacher. The tacher's name, as luck would have it, is Mrs. Siri, so they are planning to ask random questions for the entire class. DD came up with:

MRS. Siri, when is the next showtime for the movie, "Home?"

Mrs. Siri, what is the average annual rainfall in Tanzania?

Etc, etc.

[floridakat]

I went really overboard this year. I handed my kid a hairbrush and told her to brush her teeth. When she got all confused, I yelled, "April Fool's!"

The upside is she's four, and thought it was hilarious.

[readyin07]

I really cannot stand 95 percent of pranks although some here are cute and fine lol.

But my 6yo asked if I was going to play a truck on him and was disappointed when I said no. So I am going to trick him with something I heard on the radio this am.

A teacher said she was going to tell her class that she baked them brownies and have them close their eyes and visualize eating a scrumptious brownie. Then while their eyes were closed she was going to put brown construction paper Es on their desks. Of course the April fools joke is that she really has the actual brownies.

Between having to go to the store and then volunteer at my aons's school I had just enough time to cut out some Es and buy browniea at the store.

[madringal]

Apr 1, 2015 11:44:01 GMT -5 readyin07 said:

I really cannot stand 95 percent of pranks although some here are cute and fine lol.

But my 6yo asked if I was going to play a truck on him and was disappointed when I said no. So I am going to trick him with something I heard on the radio this am.

A teacher said she was going to tell her class that she baked them brownies and have them close their eyes and visualize eating a scrumptious brownie. Then while their eyes were closed she was going to put brown construction paper Es on their desks. Of course the April fools joke is that she really has the actual brownies.

Between having to go to the store and then volunteer at my aons's school I had just enough time to cut out some Es and buy browniea at the store.

LOL, that is adorable. My girls would love that.  If I have time to stop at the store get get some brownies I might totally do it.

[BaliHai]

Apr 1, 2015 11:44:01 GMT -5 readyin07 said:

I really cannot stand 95 percent of pranks although some here are cute and fine lol.

But my 6yo asked if I was going to play a truck on him and was disappointed when I said no. So I am going to trick him with something I heard on the radio this am.

A teacher said she was going to tell her class that she baked them brownies and have them close their eyes and visualize eating a scrumptious brownie. Then while their eyes were closed she was going to put brown construction paper Es on their desks. Of course the April fools joke is that she really has the actual brownies.

Between having to go to the store and then volunteer at my aons's school I had just enough time to cut out some Es and buy browniea at the store.

My coworker pulled this on us today (complete with real brownies hidden at her desk). It was cute.

[readyin07]

Apr 1, 2015 12:25:04 GMT -5 madringal said:

Apr 1, 2015 11:44:01 GMT -5 readyin07 said:

I really cannot stand 95 percent of pranks although some here are cute and fine lol.

But my 6yo asked if I was going to play a truck on him and was disappointed when I said no. So I am going to trick him with something I heard on the radio this am.

A teacher said she was going to tell her class that she baked them brownies and have them close their eyes and visualize eating a scrumptious brownie. Then while their eyes were closed she was going to put brown construction paper Es on their desks. Of course the April fools joke is that she really has the actual brownies.

Between having to go to the store and then volunteer at my aons's school I had just enough time to cut out some Es and buy browniea at the store.

LOL, that is adorable. My girls would love that.  If I have time to stop at the store get get some brownies I might totally do it.

It was hysterical. I had them both on the couch and ds2 was just disgusted and got up and left. Ds was so into April fools I thought for sure he would catch on but nope lol!

[prairiedawn]

we rolled j's bedroom while he slept, so he woke up to 3 rolls of toilet paper draped all over his ceiling fan, bed, desk, etc. it was epic