If your family participated in World Wildlife’s Earth Hour tonight, then your children might have thought that April Fools’ came a day early.
No lights for an entire 3,600 seconds can be a nasty prank to spring on a kid. It’s even nastier if you cut-off all electronic devices… but you might want to save that one for tomorrow.
April Fools’ Day is just a few hours away, and if you don’t want to go with the no electronics prank, then consider punking your offspring with the following harmless jokes:
Bed Swap: If you have multiple children at home, wait until they fall asleep, then pick them up and place them in another bed. This prank works best with young kids who are sound sleepers. When they wake-up in the morning they will wonder how and why they are not in their own bed.
Short Sheet: For children, who are too old or too big to fall for the bed swap prank, try this short sheet trick. All you need to do is fold the top sheet on your child’s bed in half, and then tuck it under the mattress. This classic joke will have your kiddo wondering if his sheet shrunk during the day.
Deceptive Drink: Add a few drops of red food coloring to regular tap water, and then mix it up so it looks like Kool-Aid. Pour the watery concoction into an empty juice bottle or a glass pitcher and leave it in the fridge. Hang out in the kitchen, and watch your child’s face when he takes a gulp of the colored water.
Fooling Around with Food: Regardless of your child’s age, food pranks always get a good laugh. What’s more, they are easy to pull off. For example, you could add a few drops of green food coloring to milk and watch the shock set in when your kid pours the tinted dairy product all over his cereal. Another option is to dye your son or daughter’s scrambled eggs red. For older kids, putting sugar in a salt shaker can be pretty funny. Or, bake up some meatloaf cupcakes and serve them for dessert. Your kids will flip when they realize the frosting is made of mashed potatoes instead of sugar and the cake is pure meat not chocolate.
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