April Fools and Practical Jokes

Sugar Packet Car Prank

Surprise! The sugar packet car prank is going to rain sugar down on you! A coworker once left their car keys out on their desk while they went to the bathroom. I grabbed the car keys, a roll of scotch tape, and headed to the parking lot after making a quick detour to the kitchen [...]

Exhaust Pipe Prank

In many gag stores or prank stores on the internet, you can purchase an ingenious noise-making piece of metal that subtly fits over the tailpipe of an automobile . When the muffler passes warm air through the tailpipe, the exhaust pipe car prank will make a high-pitched squealing noise. The car’s owner will believe they [...]

Fake Parking Tickets

Although this gag is best utilized in an area where parking fines are really expensive, you can have fun with them in any town or city. The best time to use these is when you are riding with your friend and can slip one onto their windshield before you go into a store or the [...]

Exploding String

The Chinese Exploding String Are you beginning to notice a theme? I love exploding gags and the Chinese exploding string prank (sometimes called the Chinese exploding firework prank) is no exception. Chinese exploding strings are 8″-10″ length slim strings with a center that will detonate when the string’s ends are pulled. When I think about [...]

Exploding Pen

The exploding pen prank works similar to the fake lighter but only explodes when your victim takes off the pen’s cap. This is a terrific gag for the office or social occasions because the pen is easy to carry around with you in your pocket. All you need to do is say, “Hey can I [...]

Fake Candy

There are many types of fake candy available for purchase. They run the gamut from foul tasting hard candy to chewing gum that turns your whole mouth blue. Most of these candies actually taste good at first, until the sugar coated layer melts away and you are left with a ghastly unbearable fish flavor and [...]

Fake Knife

I’ve had at least one fake knife for as long as I can remember. The knife that I’ve used for many years has a plain black handle and a plastic shiny blade that retracts into the handle when pressed against someone’s body. This fake knife prank probably should not be used on overweight strangers because [...]

Shock Lighter

Most of the electric shock lighters available today are replicas of silver butane lighters. Depending on the quality, shocking lighters usually retail from $8 – $25. Most are fairly well made and splendidly disguised. I recently made a bulk purchase of 10 of these shocking lighters, not only to save money, but also because I [...]

Fake Lottery Ticket

My father once gave out scratch off fake lottery tickets to my extended family for Christmas. He gave everyone except my uncle a real lottery ticket. You should have seen his wife as he scratched that fake lotto ticket off to reveal their good fortune at winning the sum of $10,000. The expression on her [...]

Exploding Lighter Gag

For a period of 2 years, a fake exploding lighter gag brought almost unbelievable joy into my life. This toy looked like a real lighter but had a metal spring mechanism that would detonate a small cap when someone went to pick up the lighter. The spring mechanism in the lighter worked similar to a [...]

Shocking Pen

The electric shock pen is probably the easiest of the shocking pranks to trick your friends and family with. The shocking pen prank looks like a nice expensive office pen but when you click the end of the pen to lower the ballpoint, you get one hell of a shock. All you need to prank your [...]

Fake Sleeping Dog Prank

There is a saying that you should let sleeping dogs lie. Well this dog won’t ever be getting up and your friends will have to point that out to you when they go to pet the sleeping puppy prank and think its body is cold and dead. There is absolutely no doubt that this fake [...]

Hair Prank

In this prank, you can easily get a rise out of your friends by acting like you are going to put gum into their hair. All it takes is the thought of gum in their hair and the person will jerk to avoid you as if you have the touch of death or a smelly [...]

Pull Away Prank

The next time you go to hand off a small object, like a piece of gum, to your friend, pull the item away just as they are about to grasp it. Repeat this several times and watch then get annoyed very quickly. This prank can be very frustrating for the person on the other end. [...]

Stop It Prank

Whenever I am driving on a long trip or in a situation where my friends or family members have to desperately use the bathroom but will not be able to reach the restroom for several minutes, I like to tickle them or press on their stomach. I personally consider this a prank, although some may [...]

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