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my boys will soon be 6 and 8. old enough to appreciate a joke, still slightly gullible.
looking for ideas on what harmless but funny joke to play.
have you played any that worked particularly well on young kids (and possibly partner?)
80s jolly jape show Game for a Laugh chopped the neighbours heads off. Life-like heads left by the door along with axe and copious blood.
They’ve cancelled April Fools Day this year.
A couple of drops of green food colouring in the breakfast milk. Doesn't change the taste but looks wierd. Tell them it's from cows fed on new even greener grass. Pour it on your cornflakes to see their reaction.
Not good in tea though, unless you like green tea.
It's on Saturday this year so take them to school as normal, then drive/cycle/run off laughing maniacally.
Test their problem solving skills by seeing if both of them manage to make it home.
It’s on Saturday this year so take them to school as normal, then drive/cycle/run off laughing maniacally.
Test their problem solving skills by seeing if both of them manage to make it home.
Tell them only one will be allowed back.
I Am Not A Parent.
The simple classics at that age.
Finding a leek in the bathroom for example.
Go shopping for stripey paint. Bonus points for getting them to go ask a shop assistant where it is.
Or the timeless, elbow polish.
Basically treat them as young apprentices, it'll be good for them in the end. After therapy and all that.
Ask the motorbike dealership I booked my bike in for a service with today. To be dropped off on 1st April. £230!!!
80s jolly jape show Game for a Laugh chopped the neighbours heads off. Life-like heads left by the door along with axe and copious blood.
That was a Not The Nine o' Clock News pastiche.
Or the timeless, elbow polish.
Do you not mean elbow grease? 🤨
^^ Yep,I did. Jeez, I am capable of some right brain farts these days!
6 and 8…. So far taking them to school might work, though they won’t believe me and it’ll mean missing football training which they love…
Heads on poles is a definite no. Mini apprentice, no. Can’t even get them to clean their rooms let alone run any errands to a diy store!
Green milk is currently winning. Would work on the wife and too.
Tell them only one will be allowed back.
This deserves a lot more kudos! Very scary and twisted.
Simplest but most effective* was one year when I took a cup of tea in to my mum and dad in bed on April Fools morning. I 'tripped' up and spilled two hot cups of tea straight over them (except obvs the cups were empty)
They went from half asleep to very awake very fast.
* My dad then went from very awake to very cross just as quick. I thought I was going to get a thrashing and made myself scarce pretty sharpish. IDK if he was serious but he obviously calmed down rapidly and then made out he'd fooled me back and of course he wasn't really cross.
it’ll mean missing football training which they love…
Whilst they are asleep change all the clocks so that they are a couple of hours forward. In the morning rush into their bedroom shouting that everyone has overslept.
When the devastation of missing football training has properly sunk in shout 'April fool!'.......you ol' jester.
Won't work in this case but a 14yo girl in one of my classes told her mum she was pregnant, apparently she really built up to it.
Even after she'd calmed down mum was not amused
Not necessarily April Fool but if you answer the door on your knees and poke your head around the door as though you're about 2 ft tall that gets a reaction.
I bet that ^^ would.
So would answering the door whilst holding an axe and with ketchup down your front.
Or just wearing a nappy.
When I was young, in the days you put sugar on cereal, I got my brother and sister, I told each one I was going to fool the other by swapping salt and sugar over, so as they were in on the joke put a spoonful from the salt jar onto their cereal - how I chuckled when of course I'd not really swapped it over.
When I was young, in the days you put sugar on cereal, I got my brother and sister, I told each one I was going to fool the other by swapping salt and sugar over, so as they were in on the joke put a spoonful from the salt jar onto their cereal – how I chuckled when of course I’d not really swapped it over.
That is genius.
Finding a leek in the bathroom for example.
I once pulled that gag with an already very frustrated plumber, "there's another leek behind the wall." I thought for a moment he was going to lamp me.
Basically treat them as young apprentices, it’ll be good for them in the end. After therapy and all that.
They're probably a bit young to be sent for 10 metres of Fallopian Tubing.
They could go for a long weight at a relative's or friend close by.