25 April Fools' Day pranks your kids totally deserve
Good parents deserve to be bad once in a while.
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The full-time job of a parent is no easy task. You've put up with your little stinkers since birth, and you deserve a break.
Unfortunately, breaks rarely happen when it comes to being a mom or dad, but April Fools' Day comes around once a year.
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So celebrate this year by pulling one of these (innocent) pranks on your beloved child. But just be prepared for them to retaliate.
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1. Ensure their breath is extra fresh by replacing their toothpaste with mayo.
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2. Make sure your teen is smelling fresh.
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3. Make their morning shower memorable.
4. Serve them a delicious breakfast consisting of yogurt, a peach, and apples disguised as a fried egg and fries.
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5. Don't forget the "orange juice" using the mac and cheese packet.
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6. Make sure their strawberry milk is extra special.
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7. Or buy some special donuts for breakfast.
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8. You can always try the old plastic wrap over the door prank.
9. Make them a delicious lollipop made of candle wax and a q-tip.
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10. "I bet you can't break this bag of flour over your head."
11. A fake hand can do a lot of damage to a gullible kid.
12. Leave a few of these around the house.
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13. Using a Mentos and some string, you can get your kids into a stick situation.
14. Pretend you're doing something really disgusting, like eating poop out of a diaper that is actually just chocolate.
15. Buy them a brand new awful video game.
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16. Give your teen driver their first parking ticket.
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17. Make a small alteration to their Easter candy.
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18. Trick them into eating some fruit.
19. Tape a little piece of paper underneath their mouse.
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20. This will probably work best early in the morning.
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21. Make their morning shower a little difficult by applying a layer of clear nail polish to their soap.
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22. Create a letter from their school like this one.
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23. Bake your kids some scrumptious brownies.
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24. Mix some M&M's with Skittles and watch as the sweet horror unfolds.
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25. Offer them some delicious minty Oreos.
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Bonus: Can you find the Doc Brown in this group of Bernie Sanderses?
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