April 1st is a great time to mine the depths of your most juvenile instincts. In case you’ve moved wholly into reasonable, Adult World, here are some ideas for how to prank a toddler on April Fool’s Day.
1. Frozen Cereal
Pour Cheerios into a bowl, add milk, and let it freeze. Then, offer breakfast. Laugh and laugh when Junior can’t figure out why his spoon won’t penetrate the milk.
2. How About a Yummy Cupcake?
You know how you’re always ragging on your kid to eat healthy? Well today Mommy’s had a change of heart. Would Sis like a yummy cupcake? Sis will definitely take a yummy cupcake. Only today, the cake part is actually meatloaf and the icing part is dyed mashed potatoes! (Bonus: if you make muffin-sized meat loaf, it’s perfectly proportioned, and you can serve it for dinner. No waste! Just don’t dye all of your mashed potatoes blue….)
3. The Toilet Water is…Weird
Bust out the food dye and turn the toilet water purple (or blue or green). What’s wrong with the potty, Mommy? Nothing! April Fool’s! (Just don’t dye the water red…ewww.)
4. Miniature Lunch
Tell Little Buddy that an elf came in and shrunk all of the breakfast food! Make tiny pankcakes or cut his sandwich into extra-small bites. Serve juice in a shot glass. Use saucers for plates. If they’re young…they’re easy to April fool.
5. Get Ready for School
This painful(ly) funny one hits school-aged kids hard. It works best when April Fool’s lands on a weekend. If it’s Saturday morning, wake them up and get them ready for school. If they protest, show them a calendar and insist it’s definitely not a home day. Stick to your guns! The whining will be worth it once they realize it’s a trick!
The crueler version is to tell them it’s a weekend when it’s really a school day. Have fun, Mom!
Q: Share your best April Fool’s prank!