April Fools’ Day Is This Sunday

Happy April Fools’ Day! Well … not quite yet. This Sunday is the first day of April, which traditionally is the day when people play pranks on each other. No one is exactly sure how April 1 became the day to play tricks on people. One theory says that when the calendar year was changed so the year began at the beginning of January instead of April, those who were slow to start using the new calendar were called “April fools.”

Are you planning to pull a prank this year? What was your best prank ever? Leave a comment and tell us!

Photograph by Old Visuals / Alamy

Comments

theholt5
March 30, 2012, 5:21 pm

The best prank I ever pulled was on my teacher, Ms. Arnold. I told her we had a cockroach in the closet. She freaked out. Then I said, “April Fools”!!
AlanCyborg
April 1, 2012, 2:11 am

When I was chatting online with my friends, I asked them to look behind. They all looked behind and it was so funny!
bella3001
April 1, 2012, 12:32 pm

lol cute pic
gregorycroz
April 1, 2012, 3:43 pm

I put plastic wrap between the toilet seat and the bottom part of the toilet before my mom went to the bathroom. She screamed and I had to clean up!!!
barnowl24601
April 2, 2012, 5:04 am

Me and my bff played a prank on our relief French teacher by sticking little paper fish all over her classroom and on her back, when she wasn’t looking.we hid behind the door while she was in the middle of her class… waiting for that moment when she saw all of the paper fish.
she eventually saw them when the class started to giggle uncontrollably as they all stared at the fish stuck to her bottom!
she didn’t know that, that fish was there, but she did see the ones sticking all over her classroom.
it was then that she spotted the fish sticking on her coffee mug on her desk.
she walked over to it and stared at the fish… then back at the glass eyeing each and every one of them vigorously, twitching one of her eyelids.
she picked the fish up stared at it, then back at the class.
she held it out… showed the class (her face was turning red by this point) scrunched up the paper (for all the class to see) and threw it with all of her might at the whiteboard!

we could not but help bursting out into laughter (giving us a demerit)

NOTE: getting a demerit is not a good thing so, DO NOT TRY AT HOME IF YOU WANT TO END UP IN THE PRINCIPALS OFFICE RECEIVING A DETENTION AND NOT BEING ALLOWED NEAR PAPER FISH AGAIN…
lovelypanda
April 2, 2012, 11:01 pm

I have no best pranks but I would like to tell you what pranks i did this Sunday, i fooled my sister thinking that she fooled me and i fooled my dad of something i don’t remember. i got detention……………………………………..April fools!!!!!!!!!!!
barnowl24601
April 3, 2012, 7:03 pm

oh yes… i have another good one! HOW I FORGOT IT BEFORE IS A MYSTERY…

My little sister has this crush on another boy who left our school last year.

Since it’s nearly easter (yay) i got a piece of card, folded it… and in it I wrote…

To Heather (my sister) in my messiest writing (cause he does have messy writing) sorry I left the school.
I am missing you very much
(I stuck a leftover easter egg on top of the letter) Hope you like the egg too!

LOVE (in big bold letters) Mitchel xxoo

I put the letter in her tray at break-time and waited untill after school to see her all excited…
—————————————————–
turns out, SHE BELIEVED ME!!!

she told me all about the mystery of how it got there, and how unexpected it was… and when she read the letter to me Heather and I’s Faces turned as red as a tomato!

That was enough to make me burst out laughing…
APRIL FOOLS!!!
h2olover
April 3, 2012, 8:18 pm

There was a joke at school. The boys in my class are so weird, they had a “make-up” April fool’s day on Monday. They went around saying to people, “You’re shoes are untied,” (when they’re not. Another one they kept fooling people with was saying,”It says gullible on the cieling!) So annoying yet very funny. Hope everybody had a great April fools day! P.S. If you want to play a joke on someone, try putting transparent parchment paper on someone’s door. When they come out, they can’t see it, and they will walk into it! So funny I did this on my dad!
robin98
April 11, 2012, 10:33 am

wow…….. thats funny
horseygirl
April 14, 2012, 3:57 pm

My sister and I once put a pillow stuck between our bunk bed and our door. Then we called for our parents to come into our room. When they entered the room and the door opened, the pillow fell on their heads! It was super funny, but we got in trouble. =)
ipadincalifornia
April 15, 2012, 10:11 pm

PRANK:
What I did was funny to me, just maybe not to anyone else.
I gave a note to my friend and it was like a map. He was looking at my map
and walking without looking and WHAM! He ran into the wall. Or rather the lunch
lady that is the size of a wall. He got in trouble…MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

PS
DO NOT TRY THIS TO YOUR FRIEND.
HE (OR SHE) WILL PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE
EVEN IF YOU ARE A GIRL.