![]() Under that dry cereal, add a few drops of food coloring and wait for them to pour that milk on top. Have their bowls of cereal waiting for them on the table, milk-free. Change the color of their cereal magically. Oh- and we only did it to three cookies because we didn’t want to waste real Oreo cookies. Plate them an afternoon treat of what they think is just some harmless, yummy, and simple Oreos…but switch out the middle cream for something else (we used peanut butter last year – still edible, but definitely a trick they didn’t see coming! (Oh- and have a spoon waiting because they will be more excited about the jello than the juice!) In the morning, offer your kids a cup of juice and get ready when they try to take a sip. Be sure to place a straw into the cup before you put it in the refrigerator to firm up overnight. □įill cups with gelatin and tell the kids that it’s juice. PS- To avoid fear or tears, I would make them LOOK fake (like those big orange spider rings that you get while Trick or Treating) unless you have a real jokester on your hands who will think the realistic-looking ones are funny. In their glass of water… at the dinner table. The confusion that will happen will be picture-worthy. It’s worth it, trust me! A few moments before you make this request, head outside and take some marshmallows and stick them on the branches of a bush or tree out front. Let your little ones know that you are running low on marshmallows and you need them to go pick some from your marshmallow bush. ![]() When your child is asleep, grab their school computer, iPad, iPod, tablet, phone, etc., and change the background to a picture of YOU (Bonus points if the picture is funny.) Once your child falls asleep, sneak in and toilet paper their room giving them quite the show when they wake up. It’s time to dig out your inner-teenager and toilet paper in your child’s room or door. Toilet paper in their room or across their door. At lunchtime or snacktime, offer your child an apple.ģ. Put a gummy worm inside, leaving on a bit exposed to the outside world. Using a clean drill bit, wooden rod, end of a mixing beater, or clean pen, make a hole in an apple. PS- I also make a tray of real brownies to bring out after they see this joke, but I keep them hidden until the April Fool’s Joke has been seen. Check out the details of how to get the kids involved in this one at my friend Deirdre’s blog If you don’t have brown construction paper, use white and draw brown E’s on it with a brown marker. Their eyes are sure to light up as they sprint to the kitchen…then, the prank sets in as they see the baking sheet literally full of the letter “E” cut out of brown construction paper…priceless! Once your kids walk in the door from playing outside, tell them that you’ve spent the past few hours making them a made-from-scratch pan of brownies. Literally, one of the best tricks out there. It’s time to add to the foolery fun this April Fool’s Day! If you are needing a bit of inspiration to help get you started, here are some fun kid-friendly April Fool’s Day tricks that are you can play on your children.īut be warned…if you trick them, they may find it necessary to trick you back! Both sides will think this is hilarious! (And all four will prank their dad with me – probably with #1 below! lol!) □ I have two kids who love them and two who would rather be on the giving side than the receiving side, so I’ll just get them involved in pranking their brothers. They can see that there is a difference between “mean jokes” and “Silly, funny, kind-hearted jokes.” ![]() This shows them that there is a fun & positive side to joking around & making others laugh when it is done in a kind way. If they aren’t the joking type, you can have the kids help you play the jokes on someone else. If you’ve got a few jokesters in your family, or are one yourself, it’s always fun to pull some fun family-friendly pranks on your little ones – as long as they are the type who like jokes like these ones. How do people think up these new ideas each and every year? It’s like they have a bank of ideas that they keep hidden, just for this one special occasion…and then, they unleash the fury of their fun tricks all day long. These pranks will only bring smiles (no tears!) ![]()
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