Pranks you’ll want to pull on April Fools’ Day: ideas that will make your friends and family smile
As April 1st, April Fools’ Day, comes around each year, don’t you get the itch to wow your friends and family with a big surprise? April Fools’ is the perfect day to have fun with humor-packed pranks.
But choosing the right gag can be tough—go too far and it gets awkward, stick to the usual and it feels stale.
In this article, we’ll introduce a bunch of prank ideas that are perfect for April Fools’ and guaranteed to make you laugh.
We’ve gathered ideas that everyone can enjoy—so both the pranksters and the pranked end up smiling.
Find your favorites and give them a try!
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Pranks to pull on April Fools’ Day: ideas that will make your friends and family smile (41–50)
Get stuck in the bathroom
In the video, the target is locked in a restroom as part of a real-life escape game.
It has a playful, enjoyable game aspect, but the confined space might be somewhat uncomfortable.
It would be great if the mechanisms are well crafted to make it fun.
Wrap at the entrance/exit
It’s a prank where you stretch plastic wrap across a doorway to catch someone as they walk through.
It went viral online, so some people might already know about it.
Be careful: if you use too little wrap, it will tear easily.
And when you try it, make sure no one falls and gets hurt.
Hit with a breaking bottle
If someone hit you with a bottle, anyone would be startled, and it would be pretty scary, right? The bottle-smashing scenes you see in movies are actually filmed using breakable bottles made of candy-like materials.
They’re even sold commercially, so you can use them for pranks.
In this video, they’re running an experiment to see how many times being hit in a day it would take to get used to it.
wake-up eyelid tape
This is a prank where you stick tape on the eyelids of someone who’s sleeping.
All you need is tape, so it’s easy to do.
Since anyone tends to be groggy right after waking up, they’re surprisingly easy to fool.
If you’re having a sleepover, give it a try.
Waking-up death sauce
This is a fun prank using an extremely spicy foreign hot sauce known as “Death Sauce.” When the target is sleeping, if you drip some near their mouth, the intense spiciness will make them jump awake.
It’s really hot, so be careful not to use too much.
Just a few drops should be enough.