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)
Vinegar mist fan
A mist fan is a fan that produces a fine mist when you add water.
This prank involves filling it not with water, but with vinegar.
The target will be startled by the vinegar’s distinctive pungent smell.
It’s recommended to do this after sports and similar activities.
Came home in the middle of hide-and-seek
This is a prank where you go home in the middle of playing hide-and-seek.
It works best in large places like schools or parks, since it takes longer to find you and makes it easier to trick people.
If going home isn’t possible, just moving to another location can still make it really exciting.
A hot Otonamin C prank
You’d be pretty surprised if a drink left in an inconvenient spot was really hot, right? Especially if it’s a drink you normally think of as cold.
Heat a bottled or canned drink with boiling water and leave it on the desk of the person you want to surprise.
Even after a bit of time passes and it cools down, it’s still hot enough to leave them unsure what to do—and all they can do is laugh.
Cigarette swap prank
Judging by the content, it looks like a prank-style video testing whether someone would notice if their cigarettes were switched, but from the person’s perspective, that’s really not okay.
Whether they realize it when they take a puff or don’t notice and it’s revealed later, it’s sure to make a scene either way.
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.
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.
A prank where a smartphone is stuck to the ground
It’s a prank where a smartphone appears to be stuck to a concrete slab.
You attach a phone of the same model as the target’s to the concrete and simply swap it when they’re not looking.
It gets found out quickly, so the main fun is in their immediate reaction.
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.
Water prank on a sleeping face
It’s a prank where you wake someone up by splashing water on their face while they’re sleeping.
All you need is water, so it’s easy to pull off.
Even people who are hard to wake up will almost certainly wake up if you do this.
Try it on a friend who often dozes off.