How to prank a friend: 50 fun prank ideas for April 1

Every year on April 1st we play pranks on family and friends. Today my friend is at gunpoint. We've put together a list of 50 original jokes that will cheer you and your friend up.

Before choosing a joke, you should consider your friend's character and sense of humor. It is important that the joke is well organized. Therefore, you need to prepare for the draw in advance.

What to consider when choosing a draw

In any case, you cannot do without preparation. And organizing a prank is no exception.

Before you start choosing a topic for a joke, it’s worth considering some nuances:

1. Brother's temperament and sense of humor. If a person takes jokes painfully or has an explosive character, sometimes it is better to completely abandon the idea of ​​a practical joke. Or choose the least painful topic.
2. For those who are shy and self-conscious, a joke involving strangers who are not family members can be not only unpleasant, but also painful.
3. You should not give surprises to a person with a bad heart or frayed nerves. The prank should not cause harm to health.

The brother may soon return the favor, so we can expect even more sophisticated pranks in return.

How to prank your girlfriend: tips and tricks

When choosing a comic congratulation or a prank for a girl, it is important that what appears to be a harmless joke does not turn into an offense. When playing your best friend, you need to calculate her reaction and prepare the props in advance.

So that the surprise does not upset, but amuses, it is recommended:

• appreciate your friend’s sense of humor, her desire to have fun and laugh at herself;
• imagine the outcome of the joke if the person is in a bad mood;
• do not use items that can cause damage to property, health and psyche;
• enlist the support of other participants - friends and acquaintances;
• do not repeat hard pranks from Tik Tok;
• be prepared to clean up the house after the party is over.

An important rule is that you can only joke about the person who is ready to share the fun. If your friend is suspicious, touchy and does not like surprises, it is better to congratulate her in another way.

Cool phone call

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Onions in caramel

Caramelized onions are a great option to prank your sweet-toothed brother.

To implement the plan you will need:

• several small apples;
• the same number of bulbs of approximately the same size;
• caramel (can be replaced with boiled condensed milk);
• crushed walnuts or peanuts;
• parchment paper for baking;
• wooden or plastic skewers or ice cream sticks.

The instructions for preparing a comic dessert are simple:

1. The caramel is melted in a water bath.
2. The apples are placed on a skewer and dipped in sweet glaze until it completely covers the surface of the fruit.
3. The same actions are performed with onions. Nuts are sprinkled on top - this makes the dessert look more attractive. And for the author of the prank, this will be a mark so as not to get hooked himself.
4. Glazed apples and onions are placed on parchment and put in the refrigerator for several hours to harden the sweet layer.

The finished dessert is laid out on a beautiful dish and the brother is offered to treat himself. To enhance the effect, you can agree with other family members so that they also join the tasting. You just have to warn them in advance how to distinguish which treat is a surprise.

This draw has several options. You can melt chocolate, glaze hot peppers, garlic, onions, or just a piece of raw potatoes with it. Another idea is to buy candies with liquid filling, carefully pump out the contents with a syringe, and in the same way replace it with hot sauce or mustard.

You can make inedible cookies. There are also several possibilities for the draw here. You can make sandwiches from crackers using toothpaste instead of cream for the filling. Or make a “cake” from a dish sponge, covering it with whipped cream or chocolate.

Slime on the face

Few people like to feel a lump of mucus on their cheek when waking up. You can buy slime at a joke store or make it yourself.

To do this you will need:

• PVA glue;
• liquid soap or washing gel;
• shaving foam;
• pharmaceutical borax (sodium tetraborate);
• decorative additives - paints (food or gouache), glitter, confectionery sprinkles or Orbeez balls.

The recipe for making slime is simple:

1. A small bottle of glue (approximately 50-60 ml) is poured into a glass container.
2. Add a few drops of gouache, decor, mix the ingredients thoroughly with a glass or plastic stick.
3. Pour in 0.5 tsp. liquid soap. Mix the composition again.
4. If the mixture turns out to be too thick, add a little water (from a few drops to 1 tsp) and shake.
5. Squeeze out shaving foam - about 6 tbsp. l. Gently beat into the mixture so as not to lose volume.
6. Add 1 tsp. borax, mix everything thoroughly until smooth.

Remove the mass from the container, knead it with your hands - the slime is ready. Now you need to quietly put the slime on your sleeping brother’s face, and then tickle him with a feather. He will reach his hand to his cheek and feel the mucus under his fingers. At this moment, it is good to have a smartphone with a camera ready to film your brother’s reaction.

Face slime is a harmless prank.

Changing names in the phone book

This prank is not so easy to implement - you need to know the password to unlock the phone. However, if the relationship between brothers is close enough, they often know even such secrets.

While the brother is sleeping, they replace the contacts. In order not to complicate his life too much, you should not globally edit all the numbers in the phone book - 2-3 subscribers with whom he calls most often are enough. You definitely need to change your number.

At first, the victim of the prank is perplexed, and then begins to think that his phone has undergone a virus attack. Here it is important to reveal the joke in time, before the brother begins to take radical actions to get rid of the malware.

There is another option with replacing contacts. There are applications that allow you to use other people's numbers when making calls. And a bot has appeared in Telegram that not only uses a different contact, but also changes its voice. However, you will have to pay to use the application.

The use of such technologies opens up wide opportunities for practical jokes. But it is better to use this method with caution, since it is easy to fall under suspicion of telephone fraud.

Remittance

Great April Fool's prank. To make it look more believable, you will need to find out the last 4 numbers of your brother’s card. An SMS is sent with the following content: “This subscriber has topped up your account in the amount of **** rubles. A transfer in the amount of *** has been received on your ****1234 card.

Message from the congratulator: “Congratulations! Now remember that today is not your birthday, but April 1st.” It is best to send a message early in the morning - a sleepy brother may not understand it right away, and will understand that he was played only after reading the message to the end.

Telephone line work

This prank was widespread in the last century, and today it will work if only a landline telephone is still in the apartment. Here you will need the help of a person whose voice your brother does not know (and if you have a device with automatic caller ID at home, you need to ensure that the subscriber is not listed in the phone book).

The assistant must call his brother and introduce himself as an employee of the telephone exchange. Next, inform that repair work is being carried out in his neighborhood, so for half an hour you cannot use the phone - make calls yourself or answer calls. The ban is explained by the fact that the work is carried out under high voltage; when the signal passes through, an electrician may receive an electric shock.

A few minutes later they call again, and as soon as your brother picks up the phone, you need to let out a heart-rending scream. Better yet, throw something on the floor to simulate the sound of a body falling.

If the brother is not very tech savvy, then the joke can even work with a mobile phone. In this case, the caller must introduce himself as an employee of the provider's technical service and announce that the cell tower will be repaired.

Explosive dessert

The next great prank is Happy Birthday. To create an exploding cake, no gunpowder, firecrackers, or even firecrackers are used.

To make it you will need:

• a small box (candy cereal packaging will do);
• balloon;
• electrical tape or tape;
• a can of whipped cream;
• multi-colored confectionery topping (can be replaced with grated chocolate or nuts).

Having collected all the “ingredients” for the cake, we begin to decorate:

1. The top of the box is cut off. An inflated balloon is placed inside and secured with electrical tape or tape.
2. Place the structure on the tray.
3. Fill the surface with whipped cream. The top is decorated with confectionery crumbs or chocolate with nuts.

They hand the “cake” to the unsuspecting birthday boy and offer to cut it. The main thing is that at the moment when your brother sticks a knife into the structure, move away so as not to be “in the damage radius” of the splashes of cream.

Be careful with the cake explosion prank.

Drawing on toilet paper

To implement this idea, you need to have at least basic drawing skills. The roll is unwound a little, then a spider, fly or cockroach is drawn on the paper tape.

The more naturalistic the image is, the better. Then they wind the tape back and return the roll to the holder. A surprise awaits his brother when he decides to use the paper for its intended purpose.

If you doubt the artist's talent, there is a second prank option. To do this, you need to buy a rubber spider or cockroach from a joke store.

Then unwind the toilet paper and cut a small hole in the roll into which to place the insect. To prevent it from falling out, you can secure the toy with 2-sided tape. In order for the surprise to work, the spider should not protrude beyond the boundaries of the roll. Then you need to wrap the paper back and hang it on the holder.

Famous Guest

All you need for this giveaway is to print a life-size photo of your brother’s favorite actor or musician. After this, ask a friend to ring the doorbell at the appointed moment and hold the photo against the peephole. You can do everything yourself, but then you won’t be able to see the victim’s reaction to the joke.

The gag will work especially effectively if the celebrity is on tour at that time. For plausibility, you can hint to your brother that a surprise awaits him today. Even better, “in secret” (but so that the victim of the prank hears) “talk on the phone” with the star, discussing the details of the visit.

Hidden alarms

You will need several gadgets with an alarm function. They are kept for different periods of time and hidden in several places in the bedroom. A fun night is guaranteed for your brother. You shouldn't do a prank if you have to share the same room with your brother. Unless the victim's reaction to the jokes compensates for the inconvenience of a sleepless night.

There is another joke option with an alarm clock. If you know the password to unlock your smartphone, you can set the time on it 1-2 hours ahead. After this, go to bed, vividly imagining your brother’s surprised face when he looks at the closed door of a school, university or office.

The next way is to set all the clocks in the house to different times. It is important not to miss a single gadget - wall and desktop devices, phones, smart bracelets. Change settings on your computer and household appliances. In the morning it can be difficult to figure out how to find out the exact time.

Fan

A little hard prank, the purpose of which is to make your brother look funny in front of his friends. You will have to prepare for the implementation of this draw.

First of all, you need to know which pop star your brother and his friends think is the worst. Although you can simply choose your parents’ idol, there is a risk that your brother’s friends simply won’t understand the joke, because they won’t know the star of yesteryear.

You will need to print out photographs of the “idol” and forge autographs. If you have the skills to work with Photoshop, you can make a joint photo of your brother and the star.

Hang the photographs on the walls of the room, be sure to place the poster above the desktop, at the head of the bed. This needs to be done on the day when the brother is going to bring home new friends or a girlfriend.

Jar with a head

A bit of a harsh joke - the reaction of a person who is looking for sausage in the refrigerator and sees a jar with a severed head floating in it on the shelf can be unpredictable. To pull off this prank, you need to have skills in working in a graphics editor or seek help from a specialist.

They operate according to the following algorithm:

1. A photograph of the person’s head is taken in 2 projections – full face and profile.
2. The side view is cloned in Photoshop and its mirror image is made.
3. All pictures are customized to one size. It is important to pay attention to parts of the face - ears, noses must be adjusted to each other.
4. Combine all 3 photographs into a collage: a full-face photograph is placed in the center, and profiles are placed on the sides.
5. Using the tools of a photo editor, shading is performed at the joints. You should get a simplified diagram of the head.
6. The finished drawing is printed and laminated.
7. A large jar is filled with water. To create a sinister effect, the liquid is tinted green or purple.
8. The sheet with the photo is folded and placed in the jar so that the picture fits closely to the glass.
9. Close the lid and place the vessel in the refrigerator.

It is best to place the jar not in the most visible place, but to push it deeper. Then the effect of the creepy find will be brighter. Now all that remains is to wait until evening and ask my brother to bring something from the refrigerator.

The head in a jar prank is quite serious.

Order of expulsion

The joke is intended for students of universities and colleges. This is the best way to joke about a freshman. An experienced student will quickly figure out the trick, unless he has accumulated several debts.

To prepare the draw, you will need skills in working in a photo editor.

Proceed as follows:

1. Download a sample deduction order from the Internet.
2. Find out the name of the university rector or college director.
3. On the website of the educational institution, they find a document with a stamp and, using a photo editor, carefully cut out the stamp.
4. They begin to create an order: they enter the brother’s last and first name into the sample, and paste a stamp in Photoshop.

The draw can be implemented in 2 options. In the old fashioned way, print out the document and put it in an envelope (it’s better to also print the address of the recipient and sender for reliability). The letter is dropped into the mailbox.

The second method is more modern, so it looks more believable. To implement the joke, you will need to register a fake email. The address should be similar to the name of the educational institution.

In the letter, inform about the reason for expulsion (you can come up with any reason - academic debt, absences, violation of discipline). Scan the false order and attach it to the letter as an attachment.

Call forwarding

To implement this prank, you will need the consent of a friend to participate in it, to whose number the forwarding will be sent. In addition, it is worth warning your friends with whom you often communicate that it is better not to call you on this day, but to choose other methods for communication - for example, instant messengers or social networks.

The point of the joke is to set up call forwarding on your number. Now the brother, having decided to call, ends up with a completely different person. The most fun is if a girl participates in the draw.

Another option is to forward to a “dead number,” i.e., one that has been blocked for a long time and is not in use. You can find one in your contacts - you will definitely find at least one friend who lost his phone and therefore blocked his SIM card.

The day before, you need to agree with your brother so that he calls at the agreed time. He will constantly dial the number and hear on the phone that “such a subscriber does not exist.” After some time, you need to dial your brother yourself and be indignant at why he didn’t call.

You can come up with a lot of jokes using your phone.

Air conditioning raffle

An old joke, but still funny. Set the air conditioner to the minimum temperature, and carefully seal the remote control sensor with transparent tape. In the same way, you can “modify” the remote control for other household appliances. Another option is to put tape on the laser of your computer mouse.

Auto theft

If a brother has a car, and he has the habit of throwing the keys to it in a visible place, then fate itself tells him to play a prank on him by simulating the theft of a car. It is enough to simply move the car to another place - even within the yard. If only she didn’t immediately catch your eye when leaving the house.

The next option for pranks is to stick a sticker with an imitation of a scratch on the hood or door (it’s easy to buy one in an online joke store).

You just need to remember to reveal the secret later - car owners are very worried about the safety of their car. Another joke for April 1st is to wrap your brother’s car in wrapping film.

How not to joke with your brother

To prevent a joke from causing a quarrel or deep resentment, when coming up with a prank, you need to adhere to several rules:

1. You cannot touch on topics that a relative attaches great importance to - issues of faith, political beliefs.
2. You should not use complexes and fears as ideas for pranks. If your brother has arachnophobia, the joke with the spider on the toilet paper roll may result in a panic attack.
3. Under no circumstances should you joke about accidents. Reporting that a family member or friend has been involved in an accident is not funny.
4. It’s better not to touch on sore topics - if your brother faces expulsion from college because of his tails during the session, it’s better to leave the idea with a fake order.
5. Jokes about breaking up with a girl, learning about her pregnancy, or reporting that she was seen with someone else are considered bad form.
6. You shouldn’t play dirty pranks like covering the toilet with cling film or throwing a piece of herring under the sofa.
7. It's a joke below the belt - posting a profile on behalf of your brother on a dating site (even worse if the resource is designed for gay people).
8. Forbidden jokes include flirting on behalf of a “beautiful stranger,” especially if the brother is worried about the lack of relationships with girls.
9. Jokes should not involve damage to things or property. If the prank requires making a mess, you need to be willing to help clean it up.
10. The prank should not lead to negative consequences or cause problems at work or at university. For example, an alarm clock joke would be funny if you just set the time forward. Otherwise, there is a risk that the brother will be late for work or school.

If you meet all the conditions, then you don’t have to worry when the first reaction to the draw turns out to be negative. Soon the brother will definitely calm down, and he himself will begin to laugh at how he fell into the trap.

April 1st pranks on friends on the street and at school

The most fun is to play pranks on your friends. Both sides will be able to laugh heartily. If you are looking for unusual pranks for friends, pay attention to these ideas:

Announcement

To become known as a seasoned prankster, think of interesting pranks on your friends at school in advance. An interesting way to amuse your classmates or classmates is to create a plausible force majeure circumstance:

1. In the evening, print the text of the ad. For example, this: “Today, 04/01/2021, classes are canceled due to a sewer pipe break. Students in grades 10 and 11 (or write the name of the group) are asked to appear in work clothes with buckets and rags by 9:00. School administration/dean's office."
2. In the morning, post a notice on the doors of your educational institution or classroom.

Wait for the reaction!

A stain on your reputation

A great prank for chemistry lovers is a pink spot that disappears within a few seconds:

1. Mix 100 ml of ammonia and 10 ml of phenolphthalein.
2. Pour the liquid into the tube or inside the pen.
3. Pour bright pink liquid over the victim as if by accident.

The fear of a damaged item will be replaced within three seconds by bewilderment at where the stain has disappeared.

Spiders

Jokes on friends that are based on a feeling of fear or disgust are funny:

1. In a special store, buy dummies of small insects, spiders or worms.
2. When your friend is having lunch, quietly toss a toy onto the plate.

Drinks and treats with a catch

Food pranks are the most popular and loved by pranksters. Replacing a drink or sweet ingredient with an unusual or nasty-tasting component is a classic of the genre. What can be done? Top ideas:

1. Pour diluted soy sauce into a bottle of cola.
2. Use a syringe to place mustard into eclairs or muffins.
3. Replace the sweet cookie filling with toothpaste.

Toothpaste instead of sweet filling in cookies: Pixabay
Treat your friend to a tasty treat and watch his reaction. The main thing is to make sure that the victim is not allergic to the substituted components.