APRIL Fool's Day comes just once a year but offers up endless opportunities for parents to prank their kids. Just because you're the adult, doesn't mean you have to act like one on April 1, so have some fun with these hilarious pranks.
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Leave your child's bowl of cereal and milk in the freezer overnight
From freezing your child's cereal to stuffing the end of their shoes with loo roll, here are some of our favourite ways to play a funny trick on the younger members of your family.
Shoes on the loose?
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Stuff the end of their shoes with toilet roll so they can't fit their feet in
You say potato, I say...
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Make an 'ice cream sundae' out of mashed potato... yum!
This will drive them mad
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Put a sign on the back of your car while taking your kids out for the day - they won't have a clue what's going on
Throw a party
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Attach a party popper to the outside of your child's door to startle them in the morning
An egg-cellent disguise
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For more breakfast-related fun, disguise half a peach and some yogurt as a fried egg
The hard sell
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Put a for sale sign up in your front garden and, when your kids ask where you're moving to, say somewhere really remote and far away
A lid-dle surprise
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Put a balloon under the toilet lid, so it pops up when your kids open it
Tempt them with a pretty penny
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Glue coins to the floor to tempt your kids into trying to pick them up
A bad apple
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Tell your kids you're buying them an iPad - then present one of these instead
A varnishing act
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Paint nail varnish onto a bar of soap, so it won't lather
Crying with laughter
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Make onions into toffee apples, to give your kids a weepy surprise when they bite in
A sticky situation
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Cover their bedroom in sticky notes... it will take them hours to clean upCredit: Alamy
Signed, sealed, delivered
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Seal up the buttons on the TV remote control with selotape
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Or make it impossible to take the top off their bottles by sealing them with cling film
A jelly good laugh
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Put jelly in your child's glass instead of juice
Brown-Es
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Tell your kids you've made them a tray of brownies, then watch their faces drop when they pull back the tin foil
Will they t-wig?
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Wear a wig for the day, and act like nothing's different
Looking a bit blue?
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Put blue food colouring in the bottom of your child's bowl, so it mixes with the milk in their cereal
Sew amazing
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Sew up the ends of their socks so they can't fit their feet in
Cereal killer
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Swap the contents of their favourite boxes of cereal, and watch the look of confusion as they pour it out
