Except for this year. My brother was having a sleepover on the last day of March, and we were showing the house on April Fools. That meant... no loud and hyper jokes and no mess. Mom was particularly frazzled, so I realized I'd have to keep the jokes nice and calm.
I had this list of "possible jokes" in my notebook:
Cabinet Day [My brothers and I name furniture-- Fred and George were two cabinets in the living room. Fred and George are the troublemakers in HP, and their birthday conveniently falls on April First. Thus the name Cabinet Day instead of April Fools']
Switch the clothes between the boys' closets
Fake a spill of paint on the carpet
Salt on my brothers' toothbrushes
Food color the milk so it looks spoiled
Buckle a gazillion stuffed animals in the van
Tape the ends of all the toilet paper/paper towel rolls
Move the showerheads so they spray the person turning the water on
Set all alarm clocks two hours early
Take a picture of the bathroom, and tape it over Mom's bathroom moving-mirror. She'd try to put on her makeup and wonder why she couldn't see her face! For a moment, at least.
Write on all the mirrors (The Chamber of Secrets has Been Opened!)
...And LOTS more
But I couldn't be mean. I just couldn't. So I toned it down... and surprised everyone at breakfast.
I also did the classic "tape the sink sprayer down". Last year I tricked myself THREE separate times. This year I caught Ben's friend Andy. Lets see...
William and Nick were reading LotR. I switched the covers between Two Towers and Return of the King-- they started reading the wrong book!
I also did fake makeup on Nick so it looked like he had a cut. He scared Grandma. :)
I rolled out pie dough for the crust, used the juice from cherry pie filling for the sause, used food-colored coconut for the cheese, fruit snacks for the peppers, grape slices for the onions, and fruit roll ups cut into circles for pepperoni.
While we are on the topic... check out these April Fools jokes by Google!
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