12 April Fools’ Day Pranks To Play On Your Family That Are Funny But Not Annoying

If you're having guests over, you can prank anyone who slips their shoes off. Simply grab some napkins or some other piece of paper, then quietly stuff it into the toes of shoes you find laying around. People will put their shoes on, and they won't understand why they aren't fitting.

Fake bugs are basically an April Fools' Day requirement, but that doesn't mean the pranks aren't funny. You can totally freak your family out by doing something a little bit more realistic than a fake rubber bug. Print out images of insects, then cut them out and tape them onto the inside of a lamp shade. When the lamp turns on, it will look like a huge bug is inside. Cue screaming.

Freak everyone out by making running water a different color. Dip a Q-tip into a brightly colored food coloring dye (red makes the water look bloody, which is extra weird, but you can use any shade), then use it to put the dye all around the inside of a faucet. The next person who runs the water will get completely freaked out.

Offer to be in charge of drinks, and then make some that will confuse everyone. Fill glasses with Jell-O, but tell everyone it's juice or some sort of bright cocktail. Watch everyone get surprised when nothing comes out as they try to drink it.

It's Easter, so you have to do something with candy! Try this one: swap out those mini chocolate eggs for something different. Before you see everyone, dip grapes in chocolate, then freeze. Take the chocolate eggs out of the wrappers, save the wrappers. When the grapes are frozen, wrap them in the foil wrappers, then serve as if they were candy.

If you're going to be pranking a bunch of people, including little kids, go for something a little more subtle. Try writing messages on toilet paper. Grab the roll and a marker, and write random messages throughout the roll, then carefully put it back like new. As people grab the paper, they'll see your random messages.

Offer to bring a plate of brownies to your Easter celebration. When it comes time for dessert, present everyone with a plate full of brown "Es" cut out of brown construction paper. Get it? Brownies? Brown Es?

Get a little evil with this one: Find some air horns, then set them up so that when someone opens a door, the air horn goes off.

While everyone else is busy doing something for Easter, sneak into bedrooms and do some clothing swaps. Switch your mom's shirts for your little brothers shirts. Swap your sister's jeans with your dad's jeans. They probably won't even realize until later on, which makes it funnier.

If you don't have an ice machine, you can pull this off. Get some Mentos, then fill an ice tray with water, placing one Mentos in each cube. When someone asks for a drink, give them the Mentos ice cubes. The mint with soda, especially, will cause a bubbly reaction.

Before everyone sits down to watch TV, mess with the remote control. Take a tiny piece of tape and place it over the sensor... no one will have any idea what's going on.

Take a cue from Jim from The Office and out things in Jell-O. Grab some plates beforehand and set them in a Jell-O mound. Just make sure there are extras so that you can actually eat!