Its right around the corner and I thought it would be fun to hear some stories so we can all get some ideas for this year..... so tell us your greatest prank/joke story....was it a hit? was it embarrassing?? did anyone get mad or just have a good laugh..... I'll start.

I've always been very shy, never bold enough to do anything, but one year when I was 12, I really wanted to do an April fools joke, my dad and I were sharing a house with another family, and so that morning I switched the salt and sugar bowls....not a big deal except the lady of the other family weighed about 600 lbs and while she had her bowl of cereal, I was watching from around the corner as she kept piling scoop after scoop of what she thought was sugar onto her cereal, I had never seen anyone put that much"sugar" on their cereal...must have been like 10-15 scoops, anyway when she took a bite of her very salty cereal, she jumped out of her chair, sreaming, I couldnt help that I was laughing, so everyone knew I had done it, she was screaming that I was a demon-possessed child and my embarrassed dad proceeded to take off his belt and beat my butt, so I have never done another joke since... I would love to hear some good ones, maybe now that I'm 35, I'll try again

I don't have a joke but I just wanted to tell you about when everyone thought we were playing an April fool's joke 4 years ago. DS #1 was due on April 11th. I had a sono appointment on April 1st. The sono showed that my fluid was low so the doctor sent me straight to the hospital. Of course when we called everyone to say we were on our way to the hospital, no one believed us, thinking it was a April fool's joke! They all kept saying HAHA April fool! Even my FIL who lives in Florida kept saying this better not be a joke as he was sitting in the airport trying to get here in time for the birth!

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April Fool's is huge in our family. Last year when the kids were 6 & 8, we painted beards and mustaches on them while they slept. They thought that was hysterical.

This year I'm putting rubber snakes in their lunch boxes for school and then making fake pizza for dinner on Pillsbury dough, with jam for the sauce, coconut for the shredded cheese, I found the recipe in the American Girl magazine (March / April 2008). They have some good ones. Jello in a cup with a straw in it to make it look like juice but they can't sip it.

The kids are already planning their jokes on us.

Well, april fools' day is my birthday, so i've never actually been "fooled"....i'm always sorta ready for whatever....it quit being funny to me LONG ago.
eta: that sounds mean, but i'm just saying that jokes on ME aren't funny....of course, jokes on everyone else are usually a riot! lol

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When we were little we had a small farm. We had a cow we called Daisy. On occasion she would get out and my dad would have to round her up. Well one April Fools Day we woke him up early in the morning yelling Daisy's out! Daisy's out! We watched as he ran around the house getting his coat and boots and trying to hurry before she ran off. Boy he was not too happy when he got outside and saw her in her pen. It took him a bit but he did eventually laugh.

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That is very funny!!!! was your mom in on it???

good stories!! my oldest dd soo wants to get her dad this year!! she saw something on Americas funniest videos where they pu saran wrap soo tight you could not tell it was there! and the guy ran into it! she wants to do that!!
Ill have to check her AG mag to see those ideas!! maybe those would work better than the saran wrap!!

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What I plan on doing this year, if I remember, is to rubberband the hose sprayer on the kithchen sink. If you rubberband the handle, or tape it down, when someone goes to turn on the sink, the sprayer automatically turns on and gets you. Someone got dh with that before, and he wasn't very happy, so I will be warning him about it.

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Thats a good one, my hose is broken, but maybe I could keep shutting the main water supply on and off throughout the day, my dh would never think to look at main water supply knob, then when he thinks theres a problem and starts testing the different sinks, I'll go turn it on again...hmmm would it work???

My biggest problem is that I cant keep a straight face.......

One of my friends woke up their teenagers in the middle of the night saying the house was on fire...good practise just in case ;-)

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