April's Fools

Low tech and cheap, but still fun. I'm not good at tricking kids, so these are for Dad.

Using a razor blade, carefully remove the label from a can of shaving cream, and paste it on a can of silly string.

Fill the car with blown-up balloons.

Freeze underwear overnight, and put it back in the drawer.

Take the first pair of underpants that weren't frozen, and sew the legs shut.

Download "special" ring tones to Dad's mobile phone. For example, make it play "I feel pretty" when he gets a text message.

Gee, now I have to make up a bunch more for our April Fool's.

Tell your husband that you're pregnant, again?

"Only a life lived for others, is the life worthwhile" - Albert Einstein

One year we quietly changed all the clocks, and since dad went on autopilot in the morning and had an entrenched routine, he fell for it.

Another time we convinced him it was a different day than it was--THAT took some doing--and organizing duplicate newspapers, etc. But again, it relies on the person having a routine....

I did this one year.
When you tell your husband that you're preggers. Say honey remember how I said the other day I've gained a couple of pounds? Well I couldn't figure out why because I've been working out and I thought it was stress so I went to the doctor and had my thyroid tested and got the results today...... Let him ask. Then you say I'm pregnant. The trick is to build it up in the days before hand about how your pants are tight and you've been walking and whatever other excersise you do so that it doesn't sound so made up.
I did this to a girlfriend of mine when I was 20 and she almost fell over!
I think we're going to all want to know how it goes!
As for the kiddo's my mom when we were in the 2nd grade pretended she was stung by a bee and when we came to "help" she opened her hand to let a bunch of lady bugs loose. That was surprising, little scary at firs,t but so cool to see then fly away. Years later we fell for the same joke, but that time she had an ugly fake bug in her hand so when we all crowded around to see the lady bugs we screamed and ran from the gross bug.

bookworm_mom ~ mommy of twins

one year as my sister and i were getting ready for school. mom came to the room and said she heard on the radio that there was no school, we got so excited and we were jumping up and down when she than told us " april fools" ahhhhhh we were soooo disappointed, since than i have done it to both of my boys with the same results.

Taking a suggestion out of Katrina's article in the paper, I just added blue food coloring to the pint of milk I had bought. My husband was the first to use it when he got up and put some in his coffee (then smelled it to make sure it was ok). Then my son, poured some on his cereal and was surprised. My daughter thought it was too gross after seeing her brother's cereal, but my little 2 year olds didn't seem phased at all.

So, it was one of the easiest April Fool's pranks.

Next year maybe oreo's filled with toothpaste??!?!

Lovemy4 is a discussion leader for North Central Phoenix, tired mother of 4 great kids and wife to one great husband.