Practical Jokes & Pranks Features
How To: Make Homemade Firecrackers
This tutorial video will show you how to make homemade firecrackers. These firecrackers are great for celebrating any occasions, but especially New Years and the Fourth of July. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Lock your friend's backpack prank
Check out this instructional prank video and learn how to perform this practical joke that will leave your friend puzzled! Learn how to lock your friend's backpack with this simple tutorial video. All you need is a zip-tie, and a good time to grab your friend's backpack at school. Perform this trick and your friend will not be able to open his backpack for his next class. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Make homemade nontoxic putty out of simple ingredients
Putty is fun stuff to play around with, and there are lot of different ways to make it. This video will show you how to make nontoxic putty easily at home with only white glue, water, and Borax. Add some food coloring if you tire of the same old white putty after a while.
How To: Set up an exploding (loud) deodorant prank
Party poppers are magnificent. They're the perfect prank companion. They can be used in practically any prank that requires a little "pull." So in this video, Nextraker will show you the secret behind the deodorant prank.
How To: Execute the wooden spoon head hitting prank
The wooden spoon prank is one of the great group pranks, especially if you have a big group of spectators that won't ruin it right away. What you do is get three wooden cooking spoons and an accomplice. Your accomplice will challenge your victim to a game where they take turn seeing who can hit each other's head the hardest with a wooden spoon held in the mouth. The victim goes first, landing a weak hit on your accomplices head. What the victim doesn't know is that you have a spoon too, and a...
How To: Use milk, dish soap and food coloring for a fun effect
Make your milk come alive using this at home science experiment! Mix a few drops of various colors of food coloring into a shallow dish of milk. Then add some dish soap, and put just a single drop into the middle. Then watch the ensuing cool effects!
How To: 5 Funny Pranks You MUST Try!
The following are 5 simple household pranks you can pull off on friends and family members, not much is needed, just supplies you probably already have lying around your home. Please prank responsibly! Check out the video tutorial for full instructions and demonstrations for each prank!
How To: Create a clear cell phone illusion
This tutorial will show you how to surprise others with the illusive effect of a clear cell phone screen. Take a picture of your fingers at the right size and save it as the wallpaper. In your hand, the screen will then look like the it is invisible. Watch this video pranking tutorial and learn how to make a cell phone look see through. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Pull three great pranks on your friends: 1 computer, 1 string, 1 shower
One prank doesn't have a terribly long lifespan usually. You do it once to one of your friends, they tell everyone else, pretty soon your friends see that prank coming a mile away when you try to pull it again. Why not stock up? This video will show you how to pull three diverse, great pranks. First, the food-coloring-in-the-showerhead trick. Second, the living room string labyrinth. Third, the old broken PC desktop trick. Pull all three on someone in rapid succession for bonus score!
How To: Pull an awesome prank by booby-trapping a pizza box
Everyone is drawn to a box of pizza- the possibility of fresh, hot, cheesy goodness is simply too great to be ignored. So if you are looking to pull a prank on someone, the pizza box is the perfect lure.
How To: Use the triple threat mind reading trick to prank people at bars and elsewhere
Reading people's minds is something that most inquisitive and sensitive people have wished that they could do at some point. Well, what if you could? This video will show you a great multipurpose bar trick that will allow you to appear to read the mind or body of people in a variety of situations. It's really remarkable how easy this is and how well it works.
How To: 3 Deodorant Pranks You Can Do on Your Roommate!
Pretty much anything in the world can be booby trapped and that includes deodorants such as Spray or Bars. It's so unexpected that it's the perfect prank. Check out the instructional video for instructions and demonstrations on how to pull this off.
Prank the World: DIY Fake Google Street View Car
F.A.T. (Free Art and Technology) presents a project in celebration of F*ck Google Week, F.A.T.'s protest against Google's totalitarian rule of the web (read more). F.A.T. Lab built a fake Google Street View car and canvased the streets of Berlin, posed as Google.
How To: Play four computer pranks on people: anonymous email, crank calls, and more
The computer represents a whole new frontier in prank technology, and if you've aren't computer pranking people you need to get with the times. Watch this video to learn how to send anonymous emails, make crank calls online, even send people a message saying they're about to be murdered!
How To: Pull Off the Smoke Bomb Inside a Candle Prank
The title pretty much speaks for it's self, basically you'll be putting a smoke bomb inside a candle. Obviously you'll be modifying the candle's appearance but make sure you do at good job at disguising the smoke bomb. Next time someone tries to light the candle, they'll be in for a huge surprise. Check out the instructional video for a full demo.
How To: Make fake prank poop
All you need is corn crisp and paint to make this piece of crap. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Prank a toilet with saran wrap.
Pull the classic saran wrapped toilet pank. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
News: Pull the classic Psycho shower ghost prank
The essential ingredient for this magical prank is RainX anti-fog car windshield spray. It's designed to repel the raindrops from a car's windshield.
How To: Prank Someone with the Bloody Pen Trick
For this office prank, you'll need a pen, rubber band, marker, crazy glue and some fake blood. The first thing you'll need to do is take the pen apart and get rid of the ink. Next, you'll need to attach the rubber band to the pen cap. Watch the full instructions from Nextraker to see what comes next for this bloody pen prank.
How To: Perform the fake car crash prank
If you want to scare the living daylights out of your friend, check out this next prank tutorial. In the video, you'll find out how to perform the fake car crash prank. It involved using some big speakers and a soundtrack of a car screeching to a halt.
How To: Do the mean bunny prank
This was a one shot prank that requires prepping. Earlier in the day, I told the victim, that I wanted her to do a promo for my "New Easter video". I told her to go outside, get my bunny and come back inside to show it to the cameras. Have one guy dress up in the scary bunny outfit so when she opens the door to the balcony she'll see the scary bunny. This prank is tons of fun to watch! Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Execute the messy milk and chocolate windshield prank
Sometimes the simplest pranks are the best ones! They take no time at all, and they're so simple that no one would even expect to look for the obvious. Like this windshield prank. It involves chocolate syrup and a cup of milk.
How To: Pull three different breakfast pranks with cereal and milk
Nobody wants to wake up to a prank, right? But maybe instead of starting off the day bad, it will do the opposite -- create a little laughter, make people happy, joke around and lighten up. Maybe breakfast pranks are the best gags of all.
How To: Blow up and explode a condom in the microwave
If those condoms don't get used by the expiration date, maybe have at least a little bit of fun with them before throwing them a way. Learning how to blow up a condom in the microwave is an easy practical joke or trick to do; just follow along with this prank-pulling video tutorial. Just be careful not to get burned or hurt! Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Do the fridge prank
Roommates cleared out fridge so they could jump out and scare the others. Be careful not to close the door and forget someone is in the fridge. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Make an exploding drinking straw
Heres a fun trick you can do at any restaurant. If you can find a straw you can make it explode or pop. Scare your friends! Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
News: This DIY Arduino Device Rickrolls Anyone Who Walks Near It
Even though it seems like forever, the phenomenon of "rickrolling" has only been around since 2007. It was started as an inside joke by a 19-year-old who just wanted to troll his buddies, but ended up becoming one of the Internet's most popular memes with over 66 million views (as of this writing).
How To: Make fake poop
This video is a guide that shows you how to make a fake poop out of an empty household roll of toilet paper. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Create secret messages with invisible ink
Video explains how to make and use invisible ink with stuff you find around the house. How to create secret messages for spy kid use and the secret to decoding the message. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Make a friend punch themselves with an arm wrestling prank
Arm wrestling is one of the simplest, safest ways for two people to decide who is the stronger of them. If you find yourself arm wrestling a rather slow person, try this prank on them! All you do is convince them to try the new form of arm wrestling shown in the video, then do as these fine gentlemen do. Have some ice on hand in case your victim really punches themselves hard.
How To: Do fun household pranks with a bowl, an egg, a rubber band, and lacrosse stick
There are a lot of great pranks that are NOT appropriate for children to perform. Not only are they in the wrong environment, but their limited emotional development hamstrings their ability to handle serious pranks properly. This video will show you three pranks that are appropriate for all ages and use common household materials. The include the Ceiling Bowl Trick, the rubber-band-sink-sprayer, and the classic egg-in-the-doorframe prank.
How To: Prank a dorm friend with door knock drench
Door bell drench from Prank University. One of many pranks you can torture your college roommates with! This is a simple trick from the Cubicle Warfare book that shows you how to soak the floor of a friend by filling a small garbage can with water and leaning it on their door. When you knock, they answer and dump the water on their feet. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Booby trap a chest of drawers
This video will teach you how to do pull an easy prank on someone whose dresser drawer you have access to. The only caveats are that you have to not mind poking holes in their dresser and breaking whatever they keep on top of it.
How To: Use the Easy Magic Square trick to prank people into thinking you're a genius
Most bar tricks involve establishing your dominance over your fellow patrons by beating them at pool or hitting on their significant other. Tired of those? Why not try one upping them with math? This video will show you how to pull a great trick / prank called the Easy Magic Square Trick. All you need is a napkin, victims, and a pen. The trick allows you to make a magic square very quickly, and will make you look like a math savant and win free drinks.
How To: Pull the styrofoam ice-bottom cup prank
Imagine… your friend is drinking an ice-cold soda out of his/her styrofaom cup, and everything's fine, until… it's starts leaking everywhere! It could be utterly hilarious, or disastrously evil, depending on who your target is.
How To: Do a Diet Coke and Mentos prank
Prank someone by rigging a bottle of Diet Coke into an explosive Coke and Mentos bomb. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Make a prank Rubik's Cube 4x4
If you and your friends love to solve different kinds of Rubik's cubes, and you want to play a prank on one or more of those friends, this video will show you how. It will teach you how to take apart a 4x4 Rubik's Cube with a core and put it back together without the core, so that when one of your friends tries to take it apart it will crumble in their hands.
How To: Join two books together...permanently?
Mr.G shows you a great prank that you can pull on your friends. By interlacing two similar sized books together you can make it almost impossible to pull them apart. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Use an Easter Egg Dying Kit to Make a Bloody Shower Prank
The idea of blood pouring from a shower is terrifying, which makes it a great premise for a prank. This video will teach you how only an Easter egg-dying kit and a shower head can turn into an awesome bloody shower prank.
How To: Prank people with a pay phone
By dialing *5505 and hanging up you can make a pay phone start ringing. It will keep ringing until somebody picks up. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!