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: Gags that will make your friends and family smile (11–20)
A jump scare with a face on the toilet seat
It’s a prank where you stick a piece of paper with a face printed on it onto the toilet seat.
It’s easy to set up, and if it goes well, you can give someone quite a scare.
Since it’s pretty intense, be sure to follow up properly afterward, especially if the person isn’t good with scary things.
A prank where you smash an iPhone with a hammer
It would be a huge problem if you actually smashed an iPhone with a hammer, but in this prank we use a tempered glass protector for iPhones.
Since it’s an expensive item, if someone came home to find a big crack in their iPhone screen, they’d probably skip surprise and go straight to anger.
Office prank
It might be a bit of an over-the-top prank, but you don’t often walk into work to find someone’s space turned into something wild—so it’s bound to be a conversation starter.
Try all kinds of ideas, like turning the computer into a cardboard mock-up or lining up paper cups filled with paint.
I’m really curious how they’d even get started with their work after that.
Crepe batter prank
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This is a prank where what appears to be a crepe base set out with a note saying “Feel free to add your own toppings” turns out to be just paper when you pick it up.
Use a photo that makes it look as delicious as possible to really build up expectations for the taste.
Putting it on a plate and wrapping it in plastic wrap is another key point—the shine of the wrap helps hide the fact that the crepe is fake until the last moment.
If you arrange plenty of toppings around it, you can divert attention away from the crepe itself, so the overall setup is important.
Prank with a pen that gives an electric shock
It’s a prank using a commercially available pen that sends an electric shock when you click it to extend the tip.
It might be fun to place them in various spots and watch unsuspecting people’s reactions.
That said, make sure to do it only with acquaintances or in places where pranks are acceptable.
LINE Lyrics Prank
This is a classic prank using LINE, the go-to communication tool.
The method is simple: just send the other person the lyrics of a song as-is.
Be sure to reveal at the end that it was actually song lyrics.
Sending love song lyrics might make their heart race, but you might get scolded afterward.
If the lyrics are too cheesy, they might be totally turned off, so you’ll need to choose the lyrics carefully.
Prank fight
It’s a simple prank where you pretend to have a fight.
It might be more exciting if the person who usually doesn’t get angry plays the instigator.
The longer you drag it out, the more anxious the other person will feel, but they might genuinely misunderstand, so knowing when to stop is important.
Mentos cola bomb
Opening a bottle of cola and setting it up is a very easy prank.
When you open the cola, the thread caught on the cap comes off and the Mentos drop in—a simple mechanism.
People often don’t pay much attention to whether a bottle has been opened, especially if it’s handed to them by someone they know, so it seems like an easy trick to pull off.
The toothpaste is filled with chocolate mint ice cream.
This is a prank where you swap the toothpaste with mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Since the ice cream is much sweeter and doesn’t foam, it’ll be discovered right away.
It’s fun for the prankster, and tasty for the person being pranked—a prank everyone can enjoy.
A prank where blood comes out of the faucet
The more casually we use something in everyday life, the bigger our reaction tends to be when an unexpected problem occurs.
This prank focuses on one of those everyday items: the faucet.
The idea is to make red, blood-like water flow out.
You place food coloring where the water comes out, so that when the water runs, it mixes and turns red as it flows.
Combine it with a prank that dirties the face or similar, and set it up so the target approaches the faucet off guard.