April Fools’ Day 2017: 7 Easy pranks to play & trick your friends, family and colleagues on Fools’ Day

While the mean pranks played are endless, we have a list of easy and light hearted pranks that will make you share a good laugh with the people you love.

Updated: March 31, 2017 8:19 PM IST

By Aishwarya Krishnan

April Fools’ Day 2017: 7 Easy pranks to play & trick your friends, family and colleagues on Fools’ Day

It is time to put on our best face forward and plan the most genius pranks and jokes to trick people. The time when yelling ‘fool’ on someone’s face becomes acceptable and people become extremely cautious about every move! It is April Fools’ Day. April Fools’ Day 2017 falls on a Saturday, making it an idea time to wear the pranking shoes and trick your friends and family with ease. April 1 or April Fools’ Day has been the time when various mean and vindictive pranks are played on innocent souls. The possibilities for designing a prank are endless with options that range from the easy and cheap ones to the high end pranks that require production and a lot of hard work!

While there are various people who take this opportunity to play mean pranks that are plain irritating, it is important to play pranks and jokes that are lighthearted and help in spreading happiness instead of distress. While the mean pranks played are endless, we have a list of easy and light hearted pranks that will make you share a good laugh with the people you love. As April Fools’ Day falls on a Saturday, the options for fooling your friends and family are much more extravagant. Here are seven best pranks and jokes to celebrate the spirit of Fools’ Day 2017.

1. The Soap that does not lather

Soap that does not lather

This prank is perfect to fool your family or roommates and extremely easy. All you need to play this prank is a bar of soap and some clear nail polish. Simply paint the soap with the clear nail paint and let it dry. Place it back in the washroom and watch your friends and family struggle to use the soap bar.

2. The Oreo joke

oreo prank

This joke is dreaded by all the Oreo lovers. This easy and funny prank need is a pack of Oreos and plain white toothpaste. Replace the cream in the Oreo with some plain toothpaste and prank your friends. If you want to make sure that your prank is not a fail try using vanilla flavoured toothpaste instead of the minty ones.

3. The air horn pranks

air horn pranks

There are various classic pranks that have been played using an air horn, and they never go out of style. The best prank to play on the air horn is attaching it below the chair. Let the world know when your colleague or friend sits on his chair and embarrass them! Another popular air horn prank to use is making the air horn your door stopper. This prank will surely crack you up.

4. The tech savvy mobile prank

tech savy mobile prank

This easy prank will scare your friends easily. Take a screenshot of their home screen with the apps. Then drag all their apps to the second page to have an empty home screen. Once this is done set the screenshot as their wallpaper and watch them struggle to open apps! This simple app will scare your friends that their phone is broken!

5. The shittiest prank

shitiest prank

This prank is the perfect for anyone who loves to talk about poop in the most passionate way. Easily create a turd of fake poop and place is in any place around your house or office and watch people become extremely uncomfortable. All you need is some cardboard and colouring to create the most realistic fake poop. There are various ways in which the poop turd can be made, and the prank will surely make people extremely uncomfortable.

6. The water glass prank

water prank

Fill up two classes of water and place them upside down on a tray. Serve this to your friends or family and splash them with the surprising water explosion. This prank is perfect in a place where you are not responsible for the cleaning.

7. The anti-prank prank

prank the prankster

This simple prank is short lived but will make your friends’ efforts to prank you go in vain. When someone has successfully pranked you and yells the common phrases like “April Fool” or “Happy Fools Day” this prank will help you fool them. Simply look at your prankster with a straight face and say that is it March 31 or April 2! Pranking the prankster is the key, and it is the easiest this to do. (Photo Credits: Pinterest) 

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