#AprilFoolsDay: Happy New Month, See 20 April Fools Pranks To Pull On Friends, Family

Welcome to the month of April, the fourth month in the year 2021. A happy new month to you, your friends, and your family from NewsOne Nigeria.

Being a new day of a new month, many expect good wishes as well as April fools pranks from their friends, family members, and loved ones, hence, a need to compile one.

Below are the best April fools pranks to pull on friends and family

1. The Car-Monica

Buy a harmonica and then duct tape it under the front bumper of your victim’s car. They won’t hear anything at first, but they’ll eventually notice an unmistakable wheezing sound coming from (what they believe is) their car’s engine. How long can they ignore it before looking under the hood and trying to figure out what the heck is going on? If they end up taking their car to a mechanic, you may have to split the bill for harmonica removal. But it’ll be worth it for the shared laugh.

2. Use Other Door…Forever

The more doors in your workplace, the better. Attach signs reading, “Door is broken, use other door,” to every entrance and exit in the office, with arrows pointing in every possible direction. You’ll have your confused coworkers walking in circles, trying to find any way to escape. Just make sure to fill them in on the gag before they try fleeing through a window.

3. Car Caper

Slip a sign reading “honk and smile” inside the car of your prank target; make sure it’s hidden and out of their view (and not blocking their views at all). All commute long, they’ll wonder why they’re getting beeped at nonstop by drivers who seem more flirty than inconvenienced.

4. Text Them the Dictionary

This may sound too time-consuming for prank purposes, but the University of Michigan’s website has collected an extensive list of words that you can easily copy and paste into a text. If you want a bigger element of surprise, press Ctrl + S on the word page to save it all as a text file, and then deliver it to your victim as an innocent-looking attachment in an email. It’s a gift that keeps on giving, as many email search engines will look inside attachments when doing word searches, so they’ll be reminded of your prank again and again and again.

5. Chewbacca Roar Contest

Everyone loves the distinctive Wookiee growl from the Star Wars movies, right? Then who wouldn’t love dozens of people calling them and giving their best Chewbacca impression? Create an ad promoting a Chewbacca Roar Contest and list your victim’s phone number. If they’re anything like the guy targeted with Chewbacca calls a few years ago, they’ll appreciate the effort.

6. Urgent Request

So simple, but so effective. Write “I need to see you ASAP” on a Post-It note, and then add an illegible signature. Leave it on a coworker’s desk and they’ll go into panic mode as they try to figure out who left the note and what the emergency might be. Are they in trouble?? Don’t let them get too freaked out before revealing that you’re the culprit behind the mystery note or they may never forgive you.

7. Underwear Switcheroo

Raid the underwear drawers of everyone in your home and switch ‘em up. Your mom will be briefly befuddled by why she has only tighty-whitie men’s underwear before realizing she’s been duped.

8. Send Them Glitter

Everybody loves glitter, right? It gets everywhere and it’s almost impossible to clean up. Fill an envelope with glitter and drop it in the mail, and then make sure you’re far away when your victim gets around to opening it. For extra fun, make the envelope look like it’s important correspondence that they need to open immediately. And if you’d rather leave the glitter delivery to the professionals, there’s a service that will do it for you.

9. Caramel Onions

A caramel apple makes you think of county fairs and summer street festivals, right? So if you saw something round, covered in caramel, and with a stick in the bottom, you probably wouldn’t hesitate to sink your teeth into it. But imagine that it’s not an apple under all that sugary caramel but an onion. Ugh, our taste buds are grimacing just thinking about it. Here’s a recipe with step-by-step instructions on making your own confectionary travesty.

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10. Change the Date

This is more of a group effort, whether it’s your family or office mates. Find an unsuspecting victim and convince them that today is actually Mar. 31. This requires changing every computer or device with a date on it, plus manufacturing a new calendar. But if you can pull it off, you’ll have successfully broken the space-time continuum (at least for one person).

11. Cracked Phone Screen

The agony of realizing your smartphone screen is cracked is unmatched. But imagine the relief when you find out the crack is an illusion, a simple app-installed wallpaper designed to look like a damaged screen. The endorphin rush in the reveal might just make this one of the most satisfying (and least harmful) pranks ever. There are a few free apps like this one that’ll fool even the most attentive and careful phone owners.

12. Key Switch

Not only do the letters M and N look similar—on most keyboards, they’re located right next to each other. Carefully pry off the keys using a screwdriver and switch them around, and then wait for your prank victim to get annoyed at his or her constant misspellings. It could take days for them to realize what’s happened, so be sure to let them off the hook after a few hours.

13. Un-Birthday Wishes

If you’re able to get into their Facebook account, change the date of their birthday in the settings to Apr. 1. They’ll be inundated with birthday wishes and have no idea why. It also helps to get their closest friends and family in on the joke. If even their own parents are wishing them a happy birthday, they’ll start to wonder what else in their life they’ve been remembering wrong.

14. Interiors by Guy Fieri

Print up dozens of photos of Food Network host Guy Fieri and stick them in every frame in your victim’s house, replacing their snapshots of friends and family. When they finally notice, it’ll either make them laugh or scream, depending on their feelings for the Mayor of Flavortown. And it doesn’t necessarily have to be Guy Fieri. One guy replaced all the photos in his mom’s house with pictures of Steve Buscemi.

15. Keep Them Waiting on a Text

We’ve all stared at the dreaded texting bubble, waiting impatiently to find out what someone is writing. Now you can torture your friends and family endlessly with a texting bubble GIF. Download it here and during any text exchange on April Fools’, you can trick them into waiting for a response that never comes. If there’s a better way of getting out of an annoying text exchange, we’ve never heard of it.

16. Change Their Email Signature

If you can access a friend’s email, you can mess with their settings by altering the email signature. Maybe they need a new title under their name, like “VP of Doughnut Quality Control Division” or “CEO, Ministry of Silly Walks.” Remember to keep it clean; you don’t want to inadvertently offend their parents or get them fired.

17. A Fridge Full of Googly Eyes

First, buy a bunch of googly eyes, which are surprisingly cheap. (One thousand eyes for six bucks? Yes, please.) Second, decorate every package, bottle, Tupperware, and piece of fruit in their refrigerator with a pair of peepers. When they open the fridge, they’ll be stunned to realize that every last item of food—yes, even that expired yogurt—is staring back at them.

18. Annoying Newsletters

Everybody hates unsolicited mail, but how about junk mail from the Ferret Association of Connecticut? Sign up a friend for their newsletters—the F.A.C. have several—and they’ll wonder why they’re being targeted with regular ferret updates. They might also enjoy the regular newsletters from Cat Faeries, which includes cat photos from readers and “a variety of articles pertaining to cats.” If you don’t have time to find all the best (and weirdest) newsletters, a service like MailBait will do the homework for you and sign up your victim for dozens of different newsletter subscriptions.

19. Fake Eggs For Breakfast

You can’t start Apr. 1 on an empty stomach. Offer to make your victim a breakfast of fried eggs. It’ll look delicious, but when they take a bite, they’ll discover that the eggs are actually yogurt and peach halves. Still yummy, sure, but probably not what their taste buds were expecting. The recipe is actually really easy and takes just a few minutes to prepare, but the memory of the confusion on your friend’s face will last forever.

20. Krispy Kreme Veggies

You’ll be a hero when you show up at the office with two dozen delicious doughnuts for your coworkers. Well, at least you will until they open the box and realize you’ve replaced the pastries with some cruciferous greens. Nothing tastes as sad as cauliflower when you were expecting something glazed with sprinkles.