![]() ![]() Here are some of my favorites ideas from listeners, which are all of the sensory kind: They were so disappointed, but tried to be so reasonable about it! I broke down and told them the truth right away. Once, on a family spring-break trip, I told my young daughters that they couldn’t use the pool, because it had to be drained for some reason. Something doesn’t taste the way we expect, or it doesn’t look the way we expect, or it’s a surprising color, or it pops out unexpectedly…that’s the fun of the prank!Ī different kind of prank is by surprising someone with (false) information. I asked for pranks that made use of the five senses, but as I read people’s answers, I realized that many April Fools’ pranks play on the five senses, by confounding our expectations in some way. ![]() This year, I was out of ideas, so I asked listeners of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast for their suggestions. Even I was startled by how effective this stuff is! I’ve turned a carton of milk bright green with food dye, frozen a bowl of cereal, and posted a giant photo of swimming fish inside my daughter’s toilet bowl.Īs I write about in my new book Life in Five Senses, last year I used “ Gelling Joke” to turn my daughter Eleanor’s beverage into (non-toxic) sludge. Nothing too upsetting-and nothing very taxing for me to set up. I always try to prank members of my family-in an easy, fun, gentle way. One of my favorite happiness-project resolutions is to “ Celebrate minor holidays,” and one of my favorite minor holidays is April Fools’ Day.
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